Hi Everyone,
Once again one of my questions, being new I really what to learn all I can about the Koolie breed, the KCA and all the other things involving Koolies.
I was just wanting to know how the Koolie Rescue works? How does the rescue find out about the dogs that are homeless and how does it rehome them?? How would someone go about adopting a new addition to their family and what is required? I am not looking for a new addition myself (I wish I could) be it would be good to know if ever I am asked about it I would be able to point someone in the right and correct direction.

Thanks everyone!!!!

Tjukurpa is one of the main faces of Koolie rescue & I have to take my hat off to her for the time, expense & dedication committed to this job.

In many cases it takes some scouting to know Koolies are in pounds etc. as not all pound recognise a koolie, instead labelling it as a 'Xbred something' but I'm sure many pounds/shelters have been given contact details (like they do with other breeds that offer rescue) where when a dog comes in they contact the relevant person in rescue & notify them of the dog.

Sometimes dogs that are rescued go to foster homes until a permanent home is found, sometimes people that enquire about rescueing are forwarded to a pound where a dog is in need & sometimes dogs are taken from the pound before their deadline & kept in care until a new home comes forward.

I have 3 rescues here, 1 that was actually assisted by Coolibah Coolies & Central West Rescue, 2 deafies that came from Wollongong to deaf Koole foster carer Liz Grewal in Coffs Harbour.

Ohhh ok then. Seems like you guys have 26 hours in your days to get all that you do done!!!! Thanks for the information!! I will keep that in mind.

Glad you asked Rachellebuck.
Koolie Rescue is a privately run organization.
They receive no government or local council backing at all.
The Koolie club of Australia supports the rescue where they can.
Currently the majority of funds come from the pockets of the volunteers in each state.

At the moment we have Koolie Rescue in Vic which is the original branch and where most Koolie rescues will go is they are in need or at risk, there is a no kill policy so they stay as long as it takes to find them the best home.
Koolie Adoption is Nsw and Koolie Refuge is Qld.

We work as a network with shelters, pounds, rangers who notify us when a koolie arrives.
We also rely on the general public to give us a heads up like you did by posting on the forum.

We have many helpful people who just watch their locale shelters and the net and report to us when they find a Koolie.
We then notify the shelter they refer to, letting them know that Koolie rescue is here to support the Koolie in their care and that if the Koolie runs out of time then we step in and usually pay for their release into our care.

Some shelters and pounds are really good and will release the Koolie into our care for free but it doesn’t happen as much as we’d like.
Transport is normally the big hurdle, we don’t have enough friendlies around Australia who can pick up koolies from pounds and deliver them to airports, some places are almost impossible to access, but to those few who have helped, we love them.

We always, by the grace of the universe, manage, and our numbers are growing, now we can add you as a supporter as well, too cool.!

Flights, feeding, vets, bedding, transport, in fact everything is paid for by us and we appreciate any assistance no matter how small or how big.
When people wish to donate money we ask them to give food in the form of Bonnie or bedding, because this goes to the dogs, money goes to the vet bills, our current bill is $2000 being paid today I am very proud to say.

Once we are alerted to a rescue we circulate their photos and notify people who may be waiting on our rescue list.
If we can’t home them from the shelter then we bring them into care, we don’t have a real lot of fosters yet.

Once in our care, we assess their temperament, have them vet checked, get them desexed, micro-chipped, ( Koolie Rescue remains the second contact for life), Inoculated and placed on worm/flea programs.

When the right person comes along and is chosen by their Koolie then we allow them to go for free, and we invite the new owners to become members of the Koolie club, (they can even register their Koolie in the pet section of the registry,) to help keep connected to the Koolie community and their support, and to send regular photos and progress reports, they in fact become apart of our ever growing extended family.

Some Koolies mostly crossbred ones can stay with us for a long time, our longest has been two years, but eventually the right family hears about them and they drive the 6 hour trip from any location, we are not easy to get to, which shows me the level of commitment they have, if they are prepared to travel all this way for just the chance to take home a Koolie.

In the five years of Koolie Rescue we have only had two rescues returned

While with us the rescues are family, they have the run of the house, the yards, the paddocks, all the other Koolies and us.

While we can afford to care for them, feed them, house them, train them and give them purpose and place them in loving forever homes, Koolie Rescue will continue.

Our reputation has grown so quickly that owners will contact us directly to help place their Koolie, times are tuff and it’s not only the people who are affected.
It is terrific when this happens because we can help these Koolie avoid ending up in pounds and being placed at risk, not to mention pounds are a horrid place to be.

Most of the time we can place the Koolie from one home directly into their new home, so the amount of confusion and stress is dramatically reduced, and the new owner can get so much more information from the old owners.

We have even placed Koolies where the two families have remained in touch.
Not all rescues are from uncaring unfeeling dumpers, a lot of that goes on, but a percentage of koolie rescues are from sad situations where no one is at fault and you can see the pain that surrendering cost some very good people.

Each rescue is special and there is no such thing as a standard rescue, they are each assessed for their own special needs, whether rescued from a pound or surrendered, and then we give them everything we have to give and we don’t think about anything but the koolie, that’s just how it is.

Your in rescue for the joy and the heartbreak, the great sense of balance and satisfaction. Your in it because to not be is just something we’ve never considered.
Rescue has never been a choice, it’s part of a natural evolvement of our involvement with this truly wonderful and breathtaking breed.

Come on! Their koolies!! who wouldn’t want to rescue them.!

Wow is all I can say. Sounds like such a big job and yet you guys seem to do it with ease!!! On behalf of all the Koolie Kids out there thanks for being there. Count me in as a supporter!!!! I am always willing to help out where ever possible! I am in Melbourne so I am always willing to transport, would love to foster but not sure how Libby would cope (you know what she is like TJ)If there is ever anything I can do to help just email or call me!!! Anything for the Koolies. This breed is addictive!!!! I can not believe that you give these cuties to their new families with all their vet work done at no charge!!!!!! Just shows how dedicated you guys are to these dogs!!!!
Just out of my noseyness what doggies do you have at the moment in rescue and how did they come by being with you??? (If you don't mind tell me that is, I am just really interested to know. Tell me to bugger off if all my questions are driving you up the wall!!!)

An enquiring mind it to be encouraged never discourage.
I think I'm turning Chinese.

You just keep asking and we'll keeping answering, it's just like talking except when I write I think, do spell check, reread, edit then post.
Talking is so much easier and a bloody site faster.

In care at the moment though apt to change at any given time, I am ever the optimist.

We have Lucy, she was sent to us from Qld, her owner had cancer and could no longer care for Lucy, she had also had a problem a bit like your girl, I call it confused aggression, the dog is not really aggressive but reads doggy signals wrong and then reacts badly, I don't believe Lucy had any good roll models as a pup.

Lucy is the very reason why we ask for photos, as Mushoz said many shelters don't even know what a koolie is, this is changing but there is still a ways to go.
The shelter that Lucy came from must have thought because of the white and a couple of spots she must be Koolie.
My guess is Dalmatian is responsible for the white and spots, but she is lovely.

We took Lucy sight unseen because of the owners circumstances, she was in more need than the dog and things would have just gotten worst.

But to test her true commitment to her dog we asked her as we ask most surrendering owners, to update her needles, micro-chip, desex, worm/flea and supply one month of dog food to reduce the burden on the rescue.

And to her credit and those people who have surrendered, (some just disappear, those are the dumpers) she did everything including pay for her flight, she has organize food again since Lucy coming to stay here and writes all the time to check on her progress.
We send her back photos to show and reassure her that all is well.

Lucy has learned to trust and lives very happily and calmly with all our Koolies and will make the best companion dog as she has such a big heart.
The right family for her will be older kids, singles, those working from home, not small kids, not that she has ever been a problem there, her owner had a two year old who was devoted to Lucy.

We have had Lucy I believe going on 6 months now.

Then we have Kristy Koolie x Lab I think Mushoz called them Kooliedor on another thread, blue merle and built like a coffee table, bubbling character, gets on with everything, won't walk on lead because no one taught her but is beautiful on a halite.

She is just flowing over with love, she loves to sit on your boot.
She came to us at 6 months we home her and she cam back at 2 years, the owners had been reassigned to England and they knew they weren't going to be able to cope with the move, settling kids, getting other jobs and caring for an active if some what much loved pooch.

So instead of dumping her they brought her back to us as they were told to when they adopted her, none of us know how our circumstance may change in the future.
All her needles up to date, and a 20 kilo bag of Bonnie that was 8 months ago.

Ollie is Koolie X Staffie, white undercoat with merle and a head like a staffie, cute if you like that sort of thing, she grows on you, and gets under your skin, she tries so hard to please you and be everything you want her to be, you just have to like her.

Another testament of the get the photo first, Ollie also was homed then returned due to moving internationally, her owner emails to see how she is getting on and we send photos, it she ever comes home, she will drive straight back up and taker her back.
That was 12 months ago.

There are a few others and too many to list, I used to update my website regularly but sadly for now I am reduce to a laptop and that including dial up is just more than I can bear.

But that is to shortly change, then you just watch my dust.

Thank you for your reply. I agree that talking is so much easier, I type then read what I have typed to find that my brain goes so much faster than my hands and that every second word is wrong.
Believe me I will keep asking cos they is just so much to know.
Sounds busy at you house with all your foster dogs plus your own super bunch. It will be great to see your website updated, watch out Google we have a web designer on our hands.
Thanks you for updating me on some of the dogs you have with you at the moment.
It is great to see you are a little more understanding of dog behaviour than some of shelters can be.
I must thank you on behalf of the misunderstood dogs out there, like Lucy and my baby Libby for being extra caring and non judgmental towards those with issues. They are not mean just not like other dogs. Not everyone has the same personality and I believe that dogs are the same.
Give all the foster dogs a big hug for me, they are in my thoughts!!!!!
May they all find happy, loving homes!!!

Thanks Rb it is nice for the rescue to get some talk time, you never know someone reading this thread might just come knocking.

Too True!!!! Good Luck!!!!!

Lets hope TJ,

I have seen the rescues at your place, and would have to say, these dogs are very well treated TJ....and Ron, treat the dogs like they are part of the family
If there were more people like you, there would no rescues

Hi,
well it is the day before cup day and there is only two of us at work here today. Therefore I am bored out of my brain
I was just wondering who else lives at TJ's place as part of rescue. If you are bored I am alway interested to here about Koolie Heaven. Please share if you get spare time!!!!

Thank you I know I am driving your fingers made!!!!

Sorry haven't been here too busy looking for new home with more land for bigger koolie heaven, hope you weren't too bored

Looking to move TJ?

Always, the city is getting bigger and keeps coming out our way, the traffic is getting heavier and it's getting closer to the time for leaving.

Finger crossed we have found the next Koolie haven.

Hope to be telling you more soon.

Can I move in with the Koolies too??? I am so over the city!!! I live about 30mins from the centre on Melbourne on a good night at 1am. Otherwise I live about 2 hours from Melbourne. We were down the quite end of town but they have build this new "city" called Manor lakes out our way with roads that are made for 5,000 people not 50,000. Takes Nick 20mins just to get out of Werribee!!!! I hate it.!!!!Good Luck with the house hunting and move!!! Next meeting of KCA is a TJ's to move all the KOOLIES!!!! LOL JK