Compassionate Animal Rescue & Exclusion

Compassionate Animal Rescue & Exclusion (CARE) is a Melbourne, Victoria-based wildlife services business operated by Richie. Its mission is to provide specialist assistance while prioritising animal welfare and customer satisfaction. CARE helps manage encounters between people and native wildlife through humane exclusion from buildings, including services relating to possums, wombats, microbats and birds. It also offers snake removal, fauna management on construction sites, nest box installation, emergency wildlife rescue, and general advice and guidance.

CARE emphasizes precise, compassionate work for both clients and animals. Its owner holds wildlife-related authorisations and a wildlife controller licence issued by Victoria’s Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action, as well as foster-carer authorisation and certification as a venomous snake handler. Additional credentials include construction safety and elevated work platform qualifications, alongside formal studies in animal care, health, hygiene, wellbeing, behaviour, enrichment, animal handling and transport, and basic first aid. The business states that it carries public liability and professional indemnity insurance and offers online quote requests.