On a dirt road on Melbourne’s outskirts is a special place where man’s best friends are given a new lease on life.
Kerrie Gebert and daughter Kayla started Puppy Tales Rescue in Hoppers Crossing almost three years ago.
Since then they have saved about 470 dogs from going to pounds . . . or worse.
They recently moved from a house in Hoppers Crossing to a large plot in Brookfield where there’s plenty of pasture for the dogs to roam.
Kerrie says she likes nothing more than being able to make better the lives of dogs in need of help and while only nine dogs call the place home, she expects numbers to grow rapidly.
“We’re developing now as a rescue place for dogs in desperate need of life-saving surgery.”
One dog looking for a home is Wentworth, a pug-shih tzu- cross that needed emergency hip surgery at a cost of $1500.
“Wentworth … couldn’t even use his hind legs and now he’s almost pain-free. That’s why I love it and that’s why I keep doing it,” Kerrie says.
The rescue group relies entirely on public donations and has become a full-time job for Ms Gebert, who previously worked as a vet nurse.
Kayla is following in her mum’s footsteps and when she’s not helping rescue animals, she, too, works as a vet nurse.
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