The Rescue Collective

The Rescue Collective Supporting all facets of animal rescue & rehabilitation across Australia www.club-draws.com/charity/rescuecollective
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Have you heard that you can support The Rescue Collective and enter a raffle to win fantastic prizes? It's true, you cou...
23/07/2025

Have you heard that you can support The Rescue Collective and enter a raffle to win fantastic prizes? It's true, you could purchase the winning ticket for just $10*!

Want even more chances to win? Set up an automatic monthly purchase of ticket(s) and you go into the draw each month for the additional AutoPlay prizes.

This month you could win a $1,000 JB Hi-Fi voucher - free electronics is definitely a win! Register now to be one of our AutoPlay members at: https://www.playforpurpose.com.au/the-rescue-collective

*$5 from each ticket goes to The Rescue Collective to help fundraise for vital supplies, medical resources, food, and rescue equipment for animal rescuers and rehabilitation groups to sustain their rescue work.

AutoPlay Draw closes: 11:59pm (AEST) 30 July 2025
AutoPlay Drawn: 10am (AEST) 31 July 2025

*Should the August winner be an VIC resident, the prize will be $1,000 Woolworths voucher.

Who doesn’t love a heccin good pupper???
22/07/2025

Who doesn’t love a heccin good pupper???

Proud as punch to be partnered with Vetafarm…. And it’s not just because of the financial support and products they prov...
22/07/2025

Proud as punch to be partnered with Vetafarm….

And it’s not just because of the financial support and products they provide us, it’s because they are Australian owned & operated, and these days, we reckon that’s pretty dang important. (And we care who we associate with, source from and where we spend your hard earned dollars)

19/07/2025

$𝟮,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗥 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧!

🥁 Drumroll, please… 🥁

Could it be YOU?! 🤩💰

🎉 Huge Congrats to KIM E – this week’s lucky winner of our $2,000 Weekly Draw!

Every entry supports us and we really appreciate it – and next week, YOU could be celebrating! 🎟️✨

💸 Don’t miss out!

Plastic Free July. YUP, We’re banging on and on about this topic this month. How’s the irony and hypocrisy given we huma...
16/07/2025

Plastic Free July.

YUP, We’re banging on and on about this topic this month.

How’s the irony and hypocrisy given we humans are making a proper mess of things with our discarded plastic.

Illustration:
riley_theminidachshund

🐍 Today is World Snake Day 🐍Since it’s WORLD Snake Day, we’re not going to mention our own slither slinkies today.Instea...
15/07/2025

🐍 Today is World Snake Day 🐍

Since it’s WORLD Snake Day, we’re not going to mention our own slither slinkies today.
Instead, let’s cast our gaze over to the Caribbean islands of Barbados which is home to the smallest & lightest known snake species in the world: The Barbados Threadsnake 🇧🇧🧵🐍

Not much is known about them.
🐍 The little cuties grow to about 10cm & weigh about ½ a gram - it’s about the size of a piece of spaghetti (maybe it’s where the term ‘danger noodle’ came from... 😁)
🐍 The biggest one found to date was 10.4cm & 0.6g 🔬⚖️
🐍 They live in burrows under damp leaf litter 🍂, rotting logs 🪵 & rocks 🪨 in the upland forest of eastern Barbados
🐍 They’re considered critically endangered & have one of the smallest known geographic distributions of any snake species worldwide
🐍 They’re egg-layers but only produce 1 (relatively) large egg at a time 🥚
🐍 The wee sneks are about 5cm when they hatch, which is huge compared to the adult-to-hatchling size ratios of bigger snake species
🐍 They’re blind & even have translucent scales covering their eyes
🐍 Their teeny tiny jaws barely open, so they only eat the teeny tiny eggs & larvae of termites & ants 🐜
🐍 They’re not dangerous, being non-venomous but may bite if handled
🐍 3 specimens were found in 1889, 1918, & 1963 but were incorrectly identified as other snake species 😬
🐍 They were declared a genetically separate species in 2008 after a live one was found 🕵️‍♀️ by evolutionary biologist, Dr Blair Hedges in 2006 (his team also discovered the world’s smallest frog & lizard in the Caribbean – overachiever!)

📷 Blair Hedges

We are blessed to have passionate vollies who put their hand up to do dedicated transport trips of supplies wherever & w...
15/07/2025

We are blessed to have passionate vollies who put their hand up to do dedicated transport trips of supplies wherever & whenever needed, which is amazing & invaluable 💗

Our vollies never waste an opportunity, though, so when someone is going on a personal trip, whether that be from one side of Brisbane to the other or out to whoop whoop, they always ask if anything needs a lift to someone along the way. Sometimes even out of the way! 🗺
Even if there’s only a little bit of space available, it gets utilised.

This week, one of our vollies travelled a few hours west of Brisbane to visit family & offered up some space in the car 🚗

We tucked some care packages in amongst her suitcase & pillows for 3 different rescuers located about 1.5-2 hours apart (the furthest being 3 hours away from our home base). That’s 3 rescuers who have a little more support to treat & feed the animals in their care ❤️‍🩹 which is especially important at the moment when some of the specialist formulas required for these animals are difficult for them to find.

We couldn’t do this without the ongoing support of our followers, so thank you from the bottom of our hearts for helping save the life of our precious wildlife 🥰

🦈 It’s Shark Awareness Day 🦈 *insert Jaws themed music here*Mostly misunderstood, sharks are one of the most feared anim...
14/07/2025

🦈 It’s Shark Awareness Day 🦈

*insert Jaws themed music here*

Mostly misunderstood, sharks are one of the most feared animals on Earth and thanks to Hollywood and sensationalistic media are viewed with a biased terror!

Fortunately some amazing wildlife adventurers such as Valerie Taylor, Chris Hemsworth, Madison Stewart, Ocean Ramsey and Anna Breytenbach offer a more balanced perspective in their documentaries. If you are looking for some feel good, real factoids about sharks, we recommend you start right here:

A perfect 15 minute watch, for when you are in transit, in bed reading, on the loo or wherever you get your ‘you’ time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04Sc9mVianc

Sharks, apex predators vital to the health of our oceans have some surprising features that we bet you didn’t know:

🦈 blue eyes
🦈 no bones
🦈 some can survive in water -1.8°C,
🦈 some glow in the dark
🦈long lived - up to 500yrs
🦈 older than dinosaurs.

Due to human actions in Australia, our well known great whites are almost listed as vulnerable with only 500 breeding adults left, so I'd say humans are the most dangerous species of all!!!!

Here at The Rescue Collective we believe knowledge is power. So spread the TRUE word about this amazing species… and remember those that do get attacked are in the Shark’s home. Not vice versa.

12/07/2025

Only one week to go...

We just have to share a sneak peak of some of the pawsome handmade items that a few of our volunteers as well as our local collab businesses have been dropping off - for us to sell at our stand at the upcoming Tarragindi Solistice Market, next Saturday at the Wellers Hill Bowls Club (Tarragindi).

For more info, please check the poster at the end of the video or the link to the event in the first comment.

We are very excited to be part of one of their great markets once again - to raise funds to keep supporting domestic companion animal rescues as well as wildlife carers.

See ya there?!?

12/07/2025

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸’𝘀 $𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝗜𝗡!

A massive congrats to HELEN O for scoring $2,000 in our weekly raffle! 💰💥

Every entry helps support us – and next week, YOU could be the one celebrating! 🎟️✨

💸 Don’t miss your shot at the prize

Thank you to everyone who has reached out to us concerned about our volunteers at times being in proximity to bats, when...
11/07/2025

Thank you to everyone who has reached out to us concerned about our volunteers at times being in proximity to bats, when helping out at bat carers.

Let us assure you, that any of our volunteers who ever might get close to a bat will do so by choice only and only if appropriately vaccinated and trained.

If you would like to learn more about the lyssavirus, rarely appearing in bats, please see the article in first comment.

For now, Happy Baturday, everyone!

And always remember: no touch, no risk.

📷
Mum and pup grey headed flying fox, enjoying life up high in the trees.



Friday funny 🤣
10/07/2025

Friday funny 🤣

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http://www.club-draws.com/charity/rescuecollective

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