Animal Rescue

- Season 1

(2006)

A boxer dog missing for several weeks is found living in a storm water canal. After a difficult chase, inspectors catch the dog and reunite it with its grateful owners. Repeat animal cruelty offenders are given no more chances and their emaciated dogs, some of whose fleas have been treated with sump oil are seized by RSPCA inspectors.

Inspectors seize some animals from a repeat animal cruelty offender. But when he collapses down the stairs they wonder if it's a hoax to keep the animals. An old Labrador rescued from a riverbank is emotionally reunited with its grateful owner a week after he went missing. The RSPCA takes drastic action to save a kangaroo that is stranded in a water treatment pit. But are they too late?

Fifty sick cats are found in one home. Inspectors search for a carriage driver reported to have hit his horse. A dog is abandoned when its owners move house.

Inspectors save some abandoned sheep running wild in an industrial lot. They are almost unrecognizable as sheep having not being shorn for over two years. A cat saved by RSPCA when found dying of a tick bite is reunited with its owners after being missing for two years. An abused Labrador puppy is rescued from a life of neglect.

The RSPCA is called to a Sydney suburb that has been drowned in an eerie silence since its local magpies were found poisoned and dying. An orphaned foal is rescued in the nick of time from its neglectful owner. Inspectors go to great lengths to rescue a trapped kitten in a warehouse drainpipe. Inspector Matt rescues a dog left abandoned in the backyard of a vacated council home.