rescue puppies nursery puppy rescue NSW

During winter in Sydney our nursery is a very busy place.
We have 'mothers in waiting' arriving from the pound all the time.

Our nursery also sees many orphaned pups who are nursed around
the clock by trained veterinary nurses.

We are a registered charity and running a 24 hour facility for
Mums and Bubs is expensive.

Please note that our nursery is strictly a staff only area.
We have a viewing area available to the public upon request.

Pippi and her babies

Pippi was not even 12 months old when she was dumped at a local pound severely emaciated and heavily pregnant. Pippi also had kennel cough and a severe secondary respiratory infection.

This little munchkin weighed half her estimated normal body weight, and with the physical stress of pregnancy Pippi would have died without urgent veterinary intervention.

Her 6 puppies arrived on the 19th August 2008.

At 2 days of age all the puppies were critically ill with respiratory infections, and despite around the clock veterinary and nursing care, sadly |
5 puppies died.

Pippi is doing well and gaining much needed weigh, and her kennel cough and pneumonia has
responded to medication.

The surviving pup is still on antibiotics.

Would you like to sponsor Pippi?
Please CLICK HERE for more details

Below is Pippi on arrival at the rescue.

6 puppies left to freeze and die!

While most people enjoy snuggling in their warm beds at night, dreading the alarm clock ringing and having to get up and face the cold winter morning, spare a thought for six tiny puppies who spent the night in the open, and were found covered in frost on a morning when western Sydney temperatures plummeted to zero.

Imagine weighing less than a packet of biscuits and being dumped by a heartless human in the dead of a winter night.

We currently have a litter of tiny puppies fighting for their lives in our intensive care nursery. Six puppies were abandoned, two were found frozen and dead, and the remaining four pups are in a serious condition.

Even with the best of veterinary and nursing care, these puppies may not survive.

NSWAR is a 24 hour privately funded facility for homeless small breed dogs and cats, pregnant bitches
and orphaned puppies.

UPDATE: None of these beautiful puppies survived!

Above are some of the abandoned puppies

Premature Puppies
The premature puppies we see at NSWAR are usually delivered to
mama dogs who have been stressed, emaciated and generally in
a very poor state of health.

Often the mama dog will not want to care for her own
premmie babies, and the basic care, warmth and nutrition needs
of the puppies are provided by highly trained volunteer staff.

Premmie puppies are usually very tiny and very thin.
They have little or no fur and cannot maintain their body
temperature at all. Hence they become chilled very quickly.

Some of the premmie pups cannot suckle at all.
These babies need to be hand fed hourly, 24 hours a day.

We are in urgent need of an isolet which provides a controlled
environment for these puppies to have a greater chance of survival.

The isolet provides controlled warmth, humidity and oxygen.
These units cost $2600.00 each.

To provide 24 hour professional care for each premature puppy
at NSWAR costs $25 per day.

NSWAR does not receive any government funding to assist in
the care of these special needs animals.
We are a registered charity and can issue tax deductible receipts for
donations $2 and over.

If you would like to help us, we have many sponsor packages available.
CLICK HERE

We receive calls from the pounds in NSW to help heavily pregnant
small dogs, who are often emaciated and sick.
The toll of pregnancy on the tiny bodies of these poor
creatures is often life threatening.

The majority of our orphan puppies are received from the general public.
These are the puppies that many families believe will make them a few dollars. However these 'backyard breeders' do not have the veterinary expertise to recognise that the mama dog is having a difficult labour.

The end result is a dead mama dog, and often many dead puppies
still in the uterus of the mama dog.

Many of our mums need caesarian deliveries, and often need intravenous
fluids for up to 48 hours after surgery. An infusion pump would make the
delivery of fluids an easier job for our volunteer veterinary nurses.

We are urgently in need of an infusion pump in the Nursery.
An infusion pump administers fluids to our patient in controlled
amounts, and can deliver as little as 0.1ml of fluid per hour.

All donations are 100% tax deductible
A plaque recognising your donation will be attached to
equipment purchased.
CLICK HERE

All puppies and their mums on this page are not ready to be adopted.
All animals available for adoption are on our Dogs for Adoption page.