Kangaloola Wildlife Shelter Inc. in Yackandandah | Community organisation

Kangaloola Wildlife Shelter Inc.

Locality: Yackandandah

Phone: +61 407 412 750

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25.01.2022 I am a white muscovy duck (female) and I need a good home. If you think it might be at your place, please PM us here so we can chat.

23.01.2022 https://www.abc.net.au//us-ban-commercial-shooti/100050994

22.01.2022 A story from one of our rescuers.

22.01.2022 Are you available for 5 days initial training in care of wildlife? We are looking for new regular volunteers. You will need to attend an initial 5 consecutive day training period, then, if we/you prove a good match :-) you will be able to determine a schedule with Glenda which works with you and helps meet our needs.... Please reply only if you can commit to the initial 5 day training. Yes, I know you are wondering what are the training dates? That is flexible with you, but 5 consecutive days is the minimum. If you can make the 5 days, we can fit with you. PM on this page for more information. PM on this page to proceed further. Thanks a lot.

19.01.2022 This little fella, a Squirrel Glider, was trapped on a barbaric wire fence near Baranduda last week. A road gang spotted him and called us for help. The offending barb was gently unwound and removed, he received wound first aid etc and a lot of good yummy food whilst contained. We released him back home recently.

17.01.2022 Radar and Molly were released at the Yarra Bend Flying Fox Camp last night ... here they are getting a snooze ahead of being fully 'wild' yesterday. We can't tell who is who and that is good.

17.01.2022 Chippy, the Silver Gull, goes home. Once he arrived back with his small flock on the Hume Weir, Chippy proceeded to bath in the shallow edge of the lake, repeatedly, seemingly forever, then dipping his head under, then flapping up about 30 cm above the water and dropping back in, spreading his wings out flat on the water, then bird bath again, in a never ending cycle of celebration of freedom. I would love to hear the stories that he will tell his flock this evening!

17.01.2022 Recently, a kangaroo mum was killed at Baranduda, a member of the public thought there was a joey at foot with her. We moved mum roo well away from the road and set up a wildlife camera to see if a joey was coming back to her (which is what they usually do). If that was the case, we would assess and potentially capture the joey for care. We did not see any sign of a joey, but we did see this...

15.01.2022 Twas' almost XMAS, Thursday 17th December (2020) and we received a late night call to Kergunyah South (this was a joint ROWA-Kangaloola rescue effort). We arrived about 10pm. A farmer had noticed a little wombat challenging his (friendly) farm dog, on inspection he observed the little one was just defending her poor mum (wombat). Mum was very lethargic and hiding under an old piece of farm machinery. The joey had retreated and snuggled in with her when we arrived. Let's be ho...nest here, mum could not move, she was in a bad way. What to do? The easy thing to do would be write mum off as a euthanasia, then take the joey in to be hand raised. We did the hard thing. We captured the joey (little defender!), and then the mother and took them both into care. Mum had a very (very!) swollen, inflamed rear leg. We cleaned so much pus out of it, unbelievable. But that was not enough. She needed actual surgery to clean the wound out properly. We never really settled on the cause but as we recall the wound had impacted both sides of the leg, so it could have been caused by a .22 bullet passing through, we just don't know. It certainly was not the farmer who called us, he had a lot of respect for wombats. On 7th Feb (2021) we returned them to a gully on the same property. When they first emerged from the transport box, mum came out head first, and little defender came out bum first right beside her. Mum walked forwards and little joey walked backwards side by side. They looked like a pair of commandos having each others back and watching front and rear at the same time! It was wonderful to watch mum and joey poking around in the gully getting their bearings and finding some grass. The final image is at the release.

15.01.2022 This kangaroo mum is feeling MUCH better! Early this year we became aware of a female kangaroo with a massive swelling (abcess?) on her right hip (first 3 images). She had 2 dependent joeys (one at foot, one in the pouch that we were not yet aware of) and we made an early attempt to dart sedate her for treatment. That first attempt failed because we could not reliably locate her again. We anxiously retreated.... Luckily, some weeks on, she was sighted on a large private property which turned out to be her home territory, where she is part of a small mob. We were excited and glad to have found a reliable location to plan a chemical capture with a dart. It is not a simple matter to dart and sedate a wild, mobile kangaroo. In the first instance, we tried to approach stealthily from behind a bank. But with the whole mob on the lookout, that was never going to work. This mob co-exists with occasional tourist traffic. The following day we took advantage of that fact and the darter (Chris) simply ambled into the mob, occasionally just waiting and watching while they fed. He did make a dart shot but, as sometimes happens, it ‘bounced’ off the mumma roo and would likely have no effect. We stayed with her observing from a distance for about 30 minutes to ensure no sedative had entered her body. Our anxiety was escalating. It was now the start of Easter with tourist traffic increasing. We decided to wait a week and not stress her again too soon. The third and final attempt was made after Easter. Once more, the darter simply ambled in toward the mumma kangaroo, allowing the mob to consider he was just part of the scene. Some patience and care gave us the shot we wanted and she was darted successfully. After less than 10 minutes she was asleep and loaded in a car. The time was 5pm. Alpine Animal Vets were on standby and the abcess was drained with the removal of around 3L of goop, which seemed to have resulted from a small piece of wood getting under the skin (middle 2 images). We took her back home immediately, then waited until she was awake and standing and left her to rejoin the mob (and find her joey at foot). That was about 9:30pm, so we spent 4.5 hours with her that day. A visit on the following day confirmed mum was well and the joey at foot was with her (the last 2 images). This rescue was a joint operation of ROWA and Kangaloola in the Alpine Shire.

14.01.2022 Errol, a Southern Freetail microbat, joined 3 new friends today for the trip to microbat flight school, which was facilitated by Microbats of Melbourne. He was an orphaned juvenile (5gms) and now weighs 10gms. Next trick - learn to fly and hunt insects. He will need a large enclosure (at least 8m long) for that and some skilled supervision. Errol is 2nd from the right. He seemed very happy to be back with his own kind.

10.01.2022 Kinley kangaroo UPDATE - they are hanging in there but the decisions makers need to know we support humane outcomes. Click and send an email, please help them. There is a team ready to act, for free, to deliver the best possible relocation outcome. https://animaljusticepartyvictoria.good.do/savethekinleyka/

07.01.2022 "it's just a seagull" ... NO ... this is CHIPPY, a Silver Gull and a victim of our fish hunting habits. Thanks to caring folks like Scarlett and her mum, we were alerted to the plight of CHIPPY. Over a few days we managed to capture him and with the expert guidance of Jo Mitlehner and Staghorn Wildlife Shelter, CHIPPY is now on the road to recovery. Hopefully we will post the release of CHIPPY here in a few weeks time.

02.01.2022 No argument from Kangaloola ... this is the truth. So what is to be done about this? When we bring wildlife out in front as a priority for preservation and protection, the solutions will be obvious. Until then ... the carers and rescuers will just "keep on keeping on" and doing whatever is required. https://thenewdaily.com.au//03/06/australian-wildlife-car/