Wednesday July 30 7.30pm (G)

This week on RSPCA ANIMAL RESCUE, officers respond to an elderly couple’s pleas to help catch their injured goat so they can treat it.

For two days the elderly couple have been trying to catch the goat, which has a piece of wire wrapped around its leg, with no success. Sydney inspectors Slade Macklin and Claire Kendall are called in to help try and catch it, but they soon realise the goat will need to be tranquilised to remove the wire.

It’s an offence in Australia to physically tie down any bird, and Sydney inspectors have received calls about two separate incidences in Sydney’s western suburbs about tethered wildlife. Inspectors Matt French and Donna Stockton head out to find roosters and currawongs tied down and begin investigations as to why this has happened.

On the Gold Coast, ambulance officer Karen Abdy makes a return visit to an abandoned property to confirm that a Border Collie has been left behind. The owners moved out three weeks ago so she calls in Inspector Sommer Heath to track them down and they agree to surrender the dog. But just when officers are about to take the dog to the Brisbane shelter for re-homing, a tradesman working nearby makes an instant offer of a new home.