14/06/2026
💛Donate before 30 June and claim your tax deduction THIS financial year.
https://tinyurl.com/mooses-mission
If you've been part of our village for a while, you already know Moose.
The big, goofy, larger than life dog who somehow managed to make every single day at Village Tails a little bit funnier and a little bit brighter. The one who'd photobomb every post, steal every scene, and make you wonder how on earth a dog that ridiculous hadn't been snapped up in five minutes.
He was with us for 305 days.
He never found his forever home.
And on the 29th of April, we lost him - suddenly, brutally, and far too soon. What started as an upset tummy turned into an emergency surgery that turned into the call nobody was ready for.
Cancer. Inoperable. A dog not even two years old.
We held him as he left us. He was safe. He was loved. But he should have had so much more time.
We created Moose's Mission in his honour, because if we couldn't give Moose his forever, we could at least make sure his legacy lives on in every animal we pull from the pounds he never got to see.
And then life kept coming at us the way it always does in rescue. Surprise arrivals that weren't on the manifest. More surrenders than we have ever seen in a single year, people doing it tough and animals caught in the middle. And Malcolm, our heartbreaking gentle giant, still in boarding kennels after eleven weeks, with fees that land entirely on us.
We are tired, if we're honest with you.
But we are still here. Still going. Still saying yes when every practical instinct says maybe think about this one.
Because Moose would have wanted us to.
So here's where we need you.
If you've been thinking about donating - to Moose's Mission, to Malcolm's kennel fees, to the next transport run, to any of it - donate before 30 June and it counts in this financial year. Donate after and it counts in the next. Either way, every single dollar makes a difference and your receipt comes through automatically.
To put it in real terms:
☕️One coffee = a toy for a dog who has never owned anything
🐾 $50 = a day of Malcolm's kennel fees
🩼 $100 = a vaccination or desexing for a dog just off the truck
🚌$2,500 = a full transport run that changes 20 lives in one day
Every person at Village Tails is a volunteer. Every single dollar goes to the animals. That has never changed and it never will.
If you can give - please give. https://www.mycause.com.au/page/397294/mooses-mission
If you can't, we genuinely understand, times are tough for everyone right now, please just share this post. One share could find Malcolm his foster carer. One share could fund the next Moose.
Run free big boy. We've got it from here.