Bushfire
Resources for veterinarians
Wildlife
- Treatment of burnt wildlife
- Treating burnt wildlife
- Equipment used for burnt wildlife
- Wildlife Health Australia
Dogs and cats
Livestock
- Agriculture Victoria: Assessing cattle after a bushfire
- Agriculture Victoria: Assessing sheep after a bushfire
- Agriculture Victoria: Introduction to fires
- Agriculture Victoria: Disposing of carcasses after bushfire, flood or drought
- New South Wales DPI: Assessing bushfire burns in livestock
- Tasmania DPI: Livestock and domestic animal welfare during bushfires
- Meat & Livestock Australia: Preparing for bushfire season
- Assessment of cattle burnt in bushfires
- Alpaca bushfire care
- Veterinary responses to livestock after a bushfire
- Lessons learned from an Australian bushfire with voiceover
Equine
- Journal article on horse burns made available as Australian fires rage
- Findings and strategies for treating horses injured in open range fires
- Management of burn injuries in the horse
- Agriculture Victoria: Horses affected by bushfires
Emergency response
- Working with fire agencies at bushfires - protocols for volunteers involved in wildlife rescue operations
- Response to bushfires: NSW perspective
- Queensland Government: Preparing animals for natural disasters
Resources for the community
- NSW ‘Get Ready Animals’ Videos:
- Get Ready Animals-if you live in a fire zone you need a plan
- 43 secs
- Horses
- Message: People delay leaving because they haven’t planned for what they will do with their animals. If have a horse and live in a bushfire zone, you need a plan.
- How will you keep your animals safe in a bushfire?
- 17 mins
- All animals
- Messages
- Animals rely on us
- Need a plan, need to know ahead of time
- Can’t expect them to behave the way you think
- Need to think about where you will go
- Moving multiple animals, do it ahead of time
- NSW Bushfire recovery videos:
- Equine Fact sheets 1, 2, 3, 5
- Assessing bush fire burns in livestock
- Feeding and Watering Livestock After a Bushfire
- Feeding Pellets to Livestock After a Bushfire
- Disposal of Animal Carcasses
- Emergency Slaughter of Livestock as a Result of Bushfire
- Fire Affected Livestock - Ongoing Assessment and Care
- RSPCA - Emergency Stress Management for Domestic Pets During a Crisis