Hold onto your hats… this roller coaster begins at 5am!
If you’ve ever cared for one pet and thought, “Wow, this is exhausting,” then buckle up. At Wild Action, we care for over 2,000 animals every single day. Yes… TWO THOUSAND. That’s enough feathers, fur, paws, claws, beaks, and bottoms to keep us busy until the next ice age.
Running Wild Action is like running a 24/7 Hilton Hotel for wildlife, except the guests fling poop, ignore check-out times, refuse to use toilets, and insist that every hour is Happy Hour.
Here’s what your favourite zoological madhouse looks like behind the curtain.
🌅 5:00 AM — Good Morning, Zoo! (The Chaos Begins…)
While the rest of Victoria peacefully dreams of lattes and weekends, Directors Chris Humfrey and Erin Voges are already awake. Not because of an alarm clock—no. Their alarm comes in the form of:
- A wombat snoring under the bed like a diesel engine
- Five joey kangaroos bouncing through the lounge like tiny, caffeinated pogo sticks
- An owl perched on the ceiling fan judging them silently
- An eclectus parrot yelling “HELLOOOO!” from the bed head
- Memphis the Dalmatian, who believes his job is to kiss everyone awake
Welcome to the world’s wildest share house.
But the REAL showstopper?
The Christmas tree.
Yes.
Still up.
In July. In October. In February. Forever.
Why?
Because it is currently occupied by:
🎄 Two mischievous parrots who treat it like their luxury rainforest penthouse
🎄 A tawny frogmouth who naps in it like a sleepy feathery angel
🎄 And occasionally, a sugar glider who thinks it’s a theme park
Tinsel dangles. Baubles vanish. Branches tremble.
It’s less “Silent Night”… and more “Feathered Mayhem in a Tree.”
And THANK HEAVENS that Chris and Erin have concrete floors, because:
- Wombats poop with zero warning
- Kangaroos poop mid-bounce
- Parrots poop just for fun
- Frogmouths drop owl pellets from above
- Sugar gliders poop while gliding
If they had carpet, it would’ve walked out and quit years ago.
🍼 5:05 AM — Baby Feeding: The Morning Madness
Before sunrise, the bottle-feeding frenzy begins.
- Kangaroo joeys wriggle
- The wombat demands belly scratches
- The parrot critiques everyone’s technique
- The owl stares like a disapproving librarian
- Memphis tries to sit on all of them at once
It’s adorable.
It’s chaotic.
It’s like running a nursery for animals who think rules are optional.
And yes — this EXACT scene repeats at 10pm, because the animal babies operate on chaos time.
🍽 6:00 AM — Breakfast for 2,000 Hungry Mouths
Once the indoor zoo is fed, it’s time for the OUTDOOR zoo. This is feeding on an epic scale:
- Cassowary: demands a fruit platter large enough to feed a small village
- Dingoes: meat delivered with a side of enrichment
- Saltwater crocodile: whole prey (and keepers staying alert like ninjas)
- Red kangaroos: bouncing with impatient enthusiasm
- Parrots: scream for fruit salad like feathery toddlers
- Port Jackson sharks: glide elegantly toward their seafood breakfast
- Seahorses: eat delicately like underwater supermodels
- Phasmids: eat leaves like it’s a religion
- Giant snakes: accepting whole prey like royalty
- Bettongs: digging for fungi like furry eco-warriors
- Echidnas: slurping ants with their ridiculous spaghetti-tongue
- Turtles: judging everyone
- Spiders & scorpions: stealthy, silent, and hungry
Feeding time is like MasterChef meets Jurassic Park.
🧽 8:00 AM — Housekeeping: Hilton Hotel for Animals
Time to clean up after the wildlife celebrities.
Every enclosure needs:
- New bedding
- Clean water
- Fresh browse
- Temp checks
- Safety checks
- Escape checks
- Enrichment resets
Cleaning the wombat den: Bring a shovel and optimism.
Cleaning the crocodile’s space: Don’t blink. Ever.
Cleaning the parrot aviary: They WILL undo your work as a joke.
Cleaning shark tanks: Prepare to get soaked.
Cleaning the bettong room: Try not to step on a digging marsupial.
Imagine housekeeping where the guests bite, bounce, burrow, splash, or fly.
We call it… Tuesday.
🔍 10:00 AM — Health Checks, Training, and Enrichment Explosion
Wild Action doesn’t just care for animals — we enrich their lives daily.
Health checks include:
- Weighing animals
- Checking teeth, claws, and scales
- Inspecting feathers
- Monitoring behaviour
- Checking UV lighting, humidity & temperatures
- Vet treatments
- Hydration checks
- Growth monitoring
And then comes ENRICHMENT — the magic that keeps animals mentally and physically stimulated.
- Parrots solve puzzles
- Dingoes follow scent trails
- Bettongs dig like tiny bulldozers
- Crocs do target training
- Sharks get enrichment toys
- Snakes get climbing structures
- Possums get aerial playgrounds
- Frogs get misty spa moments
Happy animals = a thriving Wild Action.
🧑🔬 Midday — Enter: The Wildlife Avengers
The Wild Action team is made up of zoologists, animal techs, aquarists, reptile specialists, mammal whisperers, frog fanatics, parrot negotiators, shark stylists, and professional chaos wranglers.
No matter what the animals throw at them (sometimes literally), they stay calm, focused, and often slightly muddy.
Without this team?
Wild Action would explode within 30 minutes.
With them?
It runs like a loud, chaotic, beautiful symphony.
🌙 10:00 PM — The Final Feed Before Collapse
While most people are watching Netflix, Chris and Erin are bottle-feeding babies again.
Joeys fed.
Wombat soothed.
Parrot still awake.
Owl ready for night shift.
Memphis snoring loudly.
Then Chris and Erin fall into bed surrounded by the very animals they’ve raised — only to wake up five hours later to do it all again.
Groundhog Day?
Absolutely.
But with marsupials.
And poop.
💚 Why We Do It
Because every animal is family.
Because every species matters.
Because conservation starts with love.
Because education changes the world.
Because the animals deserve the very best life we can give them.
Wild Action isn’t just a zoo.
It’s a rescue.
A sanctuary.
A school.
A home.
A mission.
A calling.
A wild, wonderful, hilarious, exhausting lifestyle.
And we wouldn’t trade it for anything.
Hold onto your hats… this roller coaster begins at 5am!
If you’ve ever cared for one pet and thought, “Wow, this is exhausting,” then buckle up. At Wild Action, we care for over 2,000 animals every single day. Yes… TWO THOUSAND. That’s enough feathers, fur, paws, claws, beaks, and bottoms to keep us busy until the next ice age.
Running Wild Action is like running a 24/7 Hilton Hotel for wildlife, except the guests fling poop, ignore check-out times, refuse to use toilets, and insist that every hour is Happy Hour.
Here’s what your favourite zoological madhouse looks like behind the curtain.
🌅 5:00 AM — Good Morning, Zoo! (The Chaos Begins…)
While the rest of Victoria peacefully dreams of lattes and weekends, Directors Chris Humfrey and Erin Voges are already awake. Not because of an alarm clock—no. Their alarm comes in the form of:
- A wombat snoring under the bed like a diesel engine
- Five joey kangaroos bouncing through the lounge like tiny, caffeinated pogo sticks
- An owl perched on the ceiling fan judging them silently
- An eclectus parrot yelling “HELLOOOO!” from the bed head
- Memphis the Dalmatian, who believes his job is to kiss everyone awake
Welcome to the world’s wildest share house.
But the REAL showstopper?
The Christmas tree.
Yes.
Still up.
In July. In October. In February. Forever.
Why?
Because it is currently occupied by:
🎄 Two mischievous parrots who treat it like their luxury rainforest penthouse
🎄 A tawny frogmouth who naps in it like a sleepy feathery angel
🎄 And occasionally, a sugar glider who thinks it’s a theme park
Tinsel dangles. Baubles vanish. Branches tremble.
It’s less “Silent Night”… and more “Feathered Mayhem in a Tree.”
And THANK HEAVENS that Chris and Erin have concrete floors, because:
- Wombats poop with zero warning
- Kangaroos poop mid-bounce
- Parrots poop just for fun
- Frogmouths drop owl pellets from above
- Sugar gliders poop while gliding
If they had carpet, it would’ve walked out and quit years ago.
🍼 5:05 AM — Baby Feeding: The Morning Madness
Before sunrise, the bottle-feeding frenzy begins.
- Kangaroo joeys wriggle
- The wombat demands belly scratches
- The parrot critiques everyone’s technique
- The owl stares like a disapproving librarian
- Memphis tries to sit on all of them at once
It’s adorable.
It’s chaotic.
It’s like running a nursery for animals who think rules are optional.
And yes — this EXACT scene repeats at 10pm, because the animal babies operate on chaos time.
🍽 6:00 AM — Breakfast for 2,000 Hungry Mouths
Once the indoor zoo is fed, it’s time for the OUTDOOR zoo. This is feeding on an epic scale:
- Cassowary: demands a fruit platter large enough to feed a small village
- Dingoes: meat delivered with a side of enrichment
- Saltwater crocodile: whole prey (and keepers staying alert like ninjas)
- Red kangaroos: bouncing with impatient enthusiasm
- Parrots: scream for fruit salad like feathery toddlers
- Port Jackson sharks: glide elegantly toward their seafood breakfast
- Seahorses: eat delicately like underwater supermodels
- Phasmids: eat leaves like it’s a religion
- Giant snakes: accepting whole prey like royalty
- Bettongs: digging for fungi like furry eco-warriors
- Echidnas: slurping ants with their ridiculous spaghetti-tongue
- Turtles: judging everyone
- Spiders & scorpions: stealthy, silent, and hungry
Feeding time is like MasterChef meets Jurassic Park.
🧽 8:00 AM — Housekeeping: Hilton Hotel for Animals
Time to clean up after the wildlife celebrities.
Every enclosure needs:
- New bedding
- Clean water
- Fresh browse
- Temp checks
- Safety checks
- Escape checks
- Enrichment resets
Cleaning the wombat den: Bring a shovel and optimism.
Cleaning the crocodile’s space: Don’t blink. Ever.
Cleaning the parrot aviary: They WILL undo your work as a joke.
Cleaning shark tanks: Prepare to get soaked.
Cleaning the bettong room: Try not to step on a digging marsupial.
Imagine housekeeping where the guests bite, bounce, burrow, splash, or fly.
We call it… Tuesday.
🔍 10:00 AM — Health Checks, Training, and Enrichment Explosion
Wild Action doesn’t just care for animals — we enrich their lives daily.
Health checks include:
- Weighing animals
- Checking teeth, claws, and scales
- Inspecting feathers
- Monitoring behaviour
- Checking UV lighting, humidity & temperatures
- Vet treatments
- Hydration checks
- Growth monitoring
And then comes ENRICHMENT — the magic that keeps animals mentally and physically stimulated.
- Parrots solve puzzles
- Dingoes follow scent trails
- Bettongs dig like tiny bulldozers
- Crocs do target training
- Sharks get enrichment toys
- Snakes get climbing structures
- Possums get aerial playgrounds
- Frogs get misty spa moments
Happy animals = a thriving Wild Action.
🧑🔬 Midday — Enter: The Wildlife Avengers
The Wild Action team is made up of zoologists, animal techs, aquarists, reptile specialists, mammal whisperers, frog fanatics, parrot negotiators, shark stylists, and professional chaos wranglers.
No matter what the animals throw at them (sometimes literally), they stay calm, focused, and often slightly muddy.
Without this team?
Wild Action would explode within 30 minutes.
With them?
It runs like a loud, chaotic, beautiful symphony.
🌙 10:00 PM — The Final Feed Before Collapse
While most people are watching Netflix, Chris and Erin are bottle-feeding babies again.
Joeys fed.
Wombat soothed.
Parrot still awake.
Owl ready for night shift.
Memphis snoring loudly.
Then Chris and Erin fall into bed surrounded by the very animals they’ve raised — only to wake up five hours later to do it all again.
Groundhog Day?
Absolutely.
But with marsupials.
And poop.
💚 Why We Do It
Because every animal is family.
Because every species matters.
Because conservation starts with love.
Because education changes the world.
Because the animals deserve the very best life we can give them.
Wild Action isn’t just a zoo.
It’s a rescue.
A sanctuary.
A school.
A home.
A mission.
A calling.
A wild, wonderful, hilarious, exhausting lifestyle.
And we wouldn’t trade it for anything.
