Wild Days Wildlife Shelter

02/11/2026

25/10/2026

05/10/2026

Time confirmed for 6.30pm this Friday. Grab your tickets!
Hope you can join us to support the shelter.

It's that time of year again for our movie night fundraiser, this time an action-packed survival thriller film starring Odin and Brad Pitt. Beautiful bond between man and his best friend.

'Heart of the Beast' is the story of a Special Forces officer and his combat dog as they find themselves stranded deep in the Alaskan wilderness.

Details for the event can be found below.
Start time has been confirmed for 6.30pm.

If you would like to join us, please go to https://www.trybooking.com/DQBDW to book your tickets, and don't forget to invite your friends and family. ☺️

Link to trailer in comments. Come and join us.

Thank you for your support!
Kay, the Wild Days team, and all of our furred,feathered and scaled friends.

01/10/2026

Hoooot hooot
Who's coming to our movie fundraiser next Friday night.
One week left. Come and help our shelter care for the animals.🦘

For details and to book click on the Trybooking link below. The movie start time has been confirmed for 6.30pm Friday 9 October. The Heart of the Beast. Beautiful friendship.

https://www.trybooking.com/DQBDW
Hop to see you there! 😊

27/09/2026

Do you have your tickets yet? We need your support! Bring your friends. Come and watch this amazing movie with the Wild Days crew.
Make it a night out - there are restaurants nearby for a bite to eat after the movie.
Link to the tickets in the post and to movie trailer in the comments.
Would love to see you there :)

It's that time of year again for our movie night fundraiser, this time an action-packed survival thriller film starring Odin and Brad Pitt. Beautiful bond between man and his best friend.

'Heart of the Beast' is the story of a Special Forces officer and his combat dog as they find themselves stranded deep in the Alaskan wilderness.

Details for the event can be found below.
Start time has been confirmed for 6.30pm.

If you would like to join us, please go to https://www.trybooking.com/DQBDW to book your tickets, and don't forget to invite your friends and family. ☺️

Link to trailer in comments. Come and join us.

Thank you for your support!
Kay, the Wild Days team, and all of our furred,feathered and scaled friends.

18/09/2026

It's that time of year again for our movie night fundraiser, this time an action-packed survival thriller film starring Odin and Brad Pitt. Beautiful bond between man and his best friend.

'Heart of the Beast' is the story of a Special Forces officer and his combat dog as they find themselves stranded deep in the Alaskan wilderness.

Details for the event can be found below.
Start time has been confirmed for 6.30pm.

If you would like to join us, please go to https://www.trybooking.com/DQBDW to book your tickets, and don't forget to invite your friends and family. ☺️

Link to trailer in comments. Come and join us.

Thank you for your support!
Kay, the Wild Days team, and all of our furred,feathered and scaled friends.

09/09/2026

It is so nice to give something a second chance.

Wild Days volunteers had the privilege of releasing these lucky birds back to the wild. One of the rewards of wildlife care, the best reward, is to return something in care back to their home.

With all of the devastation of the news of bird flu, many wild birds are still needing to be rescued and rehabilitated for other reasons.

These birds, the Laughing Kookaburra, the Australian Wood duck, the Grey Butcherbird, the White Ibis and the King Parrot had all been rescued after having been hit by cars.

Somehow they survived. So fragile but so strong.

So rewarding.
Beautiful wildlife.

01/09/2026

Possums amaze us at their adaptability to survive in their ever shrinking habitat as our urban developments are ever expanding.

However at times they need our help. Over the last couple of weeks I have been called on to help these two.

One a ringtail possum that unfortunately whilst using the popular ‘possum highway’ (powerlines) to travel above our busy roads to get from one tree to the next, it must have touched a second line and become electrocuted. His injuries were horrific when he was found in someone’s backyard a couple of days later. Still alive but hunched over covered in flies and maggots.

One front paw had been cooked with only dried bone remaining. The back leg on the same side had been snapped and twisted almost completely around with an obvious burn mark across the poor possum’s torso. (I won’t include a picture of this injury , it’s too confronting). The pain he would have been in would have been immense as he was being slowly eaten alive by maggots, clearly unable to climb a tree or forage for food.

I gently picked him up rushing him to an emergency vet for sedation and euthanasia.

The second case was a brushtail possum that had unexpectedly ended up inside a garbage truck. I received the urgent call one morning. The driver had luckily spotted the possum in his mirror scrambling up out of the compacter onto the arm of the truck as it was lifting up rubbish bins, and immediately stopped the truck and pulled over. Assuming the possum had been inside one of the bins and was emptied with the garbage into the crushing compactor.

When I arrived I found the confused possum climbing amongst the machinery with greasy matted fur. I gently caught her and took her straight to Kay at Wild Days Wildlife Shelter for assessment as she didn’t appear to have life threatening injuries but no doubt was suffering from stress at the very least.

Kay did a thorough examination when I arrived finding the possum had burn marks on both of her paws and one foot, (likely from the mechanics in the truck), along with signs of trauma to her hips. The saddest find though was that from the look of her pouch and teat size, she had it appears had a pair of babies in there estimated to be around 300g each . They were both gone, assumed fallen out inside the truck compactor which by now was back working emptying bins and crushing the contents of them.

Should I have searched for possible babies at the time I rescued the mother possum? Would they have still been alive? We will never know. Their mother would be mourning their loss as she recovers in the expert care of Kay.

Latest update is that she is recovering well and will be able to be released soon. Luckily the driver of the truck was able to provide a fairly accurate address of approximately where she had been picked up so we know where to take her back to.

This is the way of wildlife rescue. Mostly heartbreak sadly but the ones that we do end up saving to be able to be released again make the heartbreak a little easier to take.