Wildwood Park Sanctuary Animal Rescue & Rehabilitation.

10/09/2025

R U OK
Always here with a cuppa & a shoulder.

07/09/2025

06/09/2025

06/09/2025

03/09/2025

Our little thrown Tamar wallaby joey who I am now raising now has a name Tammy Tamar.
Over a week in care are she is doing very well. ❤️

03/09/2025

Our naughty Toby the euro this morning taking over the coffee table and lounge room.

02/09/2025

Once, it prowled the forests of Tasmania.
An animal so strange, so caught between worlds, it looked like a wolf painted with a tiger’s brush.

The Thylacine — also called the Tasmanian Tiger or Tasmanian Wolf — was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times. Unlike dogs, it carried its young in a pouch, yet its body mirrored the stance of a predator. Stripes lined its back like shadows of ancient brushstrokes, fading toward a stiff tail built for balance.

It hunted in silence, stalking wallabies and birds, its jaws opening impossibly wide — nearly 80 degrees — to crush prey. Mostly nocturnal, it was shy, wary of humans, and a ghost of the thickets it once called home.

But colonists feared it. Blamed for livestock losses, the thylacine was trapped, poisoned, and shot until the last known individual died in captivity in 1936.

Now, it exists only in photographs, films, and whispered legends. Some believe it still wanders the Tasmanian wilderness, hidden in shadows. Science calls it extinct. Yet to many, it remains the vanished hunter of two worlds — marsupial and wolf, tiger and ghost.

02/09/2025

02/09/2025

01/09/2025

Yesterday I was up at 2 am feeling dreadful headache, cough and aching all over and felt worse as the morning went on I got out to do my chores at 10 to do feeding and fixing up more storm damage. I came inside for a drink and thought where are the covid test kits. Did a test and positive did another text and negative and then saw a message my Monday helpers on way. I texted them not to come but they rang and said they really wanted to help and they were almost here 20 mins later the 2 lads from LDS rocked up.
Well what a blessing as dave no use catching poorly roos and wallabies and 4 needing attention I asked these 2 American lads if they felt able to help catch wallabies with me, to give antibiotics and treatment. Well these 2 lads 18 and 21 were amazing. First job was catching a Mumma wallaby that had been one of tuesdays escapees but had ended up in our other empty enclosure. The boys herded her towards me and I was able to grab her and they opened gates for me to her normal enclosure with her friends. While in there we caught 2 of the wallabies that were injured during the Tuesday event and gave them antibiotics to assist their recovery and cleaning a sore eye of one of them.
We then had to catch but not hard with 3 of us our swampy girl who had an altercation with a euro also needing antibiotics and then the most yuk of the day for the lads was a red we found with a neck abscess that we cleaned and bandaged to keep the flies away, she is now in the smaller enclosure so we can treat her with ease.
Not what the boys had expected at all but they stepped up so well. While doing the red clean up one of the lads had a zoom call from his family in California so they watched on with compassion for a poorly Aussie critters even saying a prayer of blessing for her.
At that point I thought the lads would want to depart but no they said they were here to help, so they stick picked north side of the Western and Red enclosure doing an amazing job and then while seasons allowed had a Bon fire to burn the sticks and downed tree mess from the winter storms. The roos all followed the lads for a while and then just watched from a distance until I started the burn. The roos are so curious about fire and venture close to feel it and look into it. There were 3 large dead lignotubers stumps we had put the pile of wood on and these burned into the night and there was kangas coming to visit the site all night. To say to thanks the lads I put on some flavoured spring water and nibbles in the too enclosure and Alby one of our westerns really wanted to join in. He tried olives, cheese and the crackers and I tried to push him away but had to give up as he was part of the team.
The lads then helped Dave move a fallen tree, too heavy for us
off the fence while I put the snack plate and other gear away.
Appart from me just wanting an easy sick day after my main chores I do feel blessed the lads did come to help as the poorly critters got help and was less stress on me doing the catching on my own. Remarkably we got more of the big roo yard clear to help remove litter to reduce bush fire risk and the big tree off the fence done and dusted. The lads enjoyed their wildlife experience holding and just being immersed in the friendly critter experience.
No good deed goes without reward and to say thank you they both got a box of chocolates and a big bag of fruit dehydrated strips to take home.
So a big thank you to the LDS mission lads for their amazing help yesterday and for keeping me going even though I wanted to fall in a heap for the arvo. I kept going and going until 6 you just have too with such amazing helpers. I came indoors bottle fed the joeys hot shower and in bed by 8 even though I did not sleep until after 12 but a great day in all.