RSPCA Animal Rescue

RSPCA Animal Rescue is an observational documentary series featuring the tough daily assignments and high pressure work faced by the RSPCA's inspectorate and veterinary staff; men and women who work tirelessly to fight animal cruelty across Australia.

It's a fierce and sometimes emotional journey for the inspectors as they confront cases of horror and heartbreak during their job to rescue the lost, neglected, abandoned and abused animals of Australia - a country with one of the greatest pet populations per capita in the world.

The first series of RSPCA Animal Rescue premiered on Channel Seven last year and went on to become the top rating new program of 2007 and the seventh most watched series of the year, with an average national audience of 1.709 million viewers. The second season, which will be seen on Seven from February, is once again presented and narrated by Anthony Field, aka ‘the blue Wiggle".

Shot during the summer months of 07/08 in the states of New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland, viewers of series two of RSPCA Animal Rescue can expect to see some more extraordinary rescues - from a cat stuck in a concrete wall and a dog stranded in a house fire to an abandoned racehorse and an injured goose.

More than 130,000 animals each year are given shelter at one of the many branches of the RSPCA across Australia. Many are rescued by the inspectors, some surrendered, and others are brought to their clinics by one of the many Animal Ambulances that support the main branch offices.

RSPCA Animal Rescue gives the viewer a close-up look at the work and care the RSPCA give to animals. It's a sometimes high drama environment where frontline staff make life and death decisions everyday, occasionally risking their own safety for the life of an animal.