Advocate® People's Rescue Story Finalists 2020

At the tender age of about 4 months, our Maggie made the news in our local newspaper describing a horror story that was unspeakable. This precious puppy was tied to the back of a car and dragged through suburban streets of the NSW Central Coast and then left bloodied...

During the COVID crisis, Olive was found as a tiny kitten who had been dumped in a Bunnings warehouse carpark and was hiding in a bag of McDonalds chips. She was bought into the clinic with severe herpes virus causing major trauma to both her eyeballs. For three weeks...

Early 2018 my school principal suggested the school get a support pet for our students. So I visited my local animal shelter and adopted a little ginger cat. My students named him Vincent van Purr as he was going to become the artroom cat. Three years later Vincent...

Two years ago we adopted a 5year old Koolie, Roxie, as a pet for our daughter Louisa. Louisa has a mild intellectual disability. It was love at first sight for both of them and Roxie is now her constant companion.  Louisa takes Roxie to our local park where she has...

Crystal came to us from The Rabbit Sanctuary in 2017. I was recovering from treatment for breast cancer and I was in a really low place in my life. I needed something to give my life meaning again. Crystal had come from a very bad background and had been abused. She...

I am grateful to have rescued Leo but I think it was he who rescued me. When I adopted him he was bold down his back & tail from flea dermatitis. Within months we had him back strong, happy, and healthy. He was then trained up to become an assistance dog with the...

***WINNER*** Our big boy Wolf was one year old when we adopted him. Being a Maremma, he’s not your typical pet dog breed.  We were his fifth home. He was challenging. He nipped my mum on the bum, peed on the carpet, lunged at anyone on a phone, and wanted to chase...

I fell in love with greyhounds after finding a very sick Greyhound on a lonely stretch of road. Long story short, fell in love with Chilli, paid the vet bills, and took him home. Since then I have had 3 adopted greyhounds. I own a winery in the Barossa Valley and call...

WH Rowe arrived as a severely malnourished horse, who needed to be lifted up by our tractor, twice in the first three weeks of care. I fell for her the first day I met her, and she is the first horse I have adopted in over 90 that we have taken in. She chose me to...

March 2017 and Nowra was flooded. Staff at the Ex Serviceman's club spotted and heard a tiny, distressed kitten. Saturated and terrified, when pulled from his hideout his rescuers discovered his back leg hanging by a thread. When Sth Nowra Veterinary Hospital opened...