Adorable Creatures Petcare

11/02/2025

Hello all my wonderful clients and followers, you may have noticed that l havent posted any petsitting updates for a long time. Unfortunately due to increasing back issues l had to cut right back on my bookings last year. Sadly as there has been no improvement this year l have had to make the very hard decision to close the business. This was my absolute dream job, one l wished I'd started much earlier, ive loved every minute of it but I'm struggling now.
I want to say a huge thankyou to all my clients who trusted me to care for their Adorable Creatures, it's truly been a privilege. I have been blessed to have such lovely clients, some were already friends but you all have become friends to me. Your precious pets are etched on my heart, l will miss them and have hundreds of photos to remember them always.
With love to you all
Gillian

05/02/2025

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT

Please be aware that we only have 1 intake worker to answer the crisis intake phone that works Monday to Thursday from 9am to 3:45pm and after that its 1 volunteer that does afterhours.

If you are successful in getting through, we only have a small team of volunteer caseworkers/students to take the cases after intake, for quality of service and care sometimes we just reach capacity, and we can't keep taking on clients.

We currently have 317 active clients, not including our outreach pet food clients, pop up vet clinic and community partners. We are not government funded, we rely on public donations and generous business support and the blood, sweat and tears of our most generous volunteers.

So please be kind and patience, we know this is a highly stressful time and we do our best to help as many people with pets as we can, we just cannot keep up with demand and it breaks our hearts.

Our services are essential and play a vital role in human health systems, and Domestic Violence and homeless services by addressing the interconnected needs of people and their pets.

23/12/2024

Wishing all my beautiful clients and all their darlings a wonderful Christmas and a safe and happy 2025.❤🎅❤

13/11/2024

Dear Safe Pets Safe Families ❤️ my name is Smithy. I am a 4 year old terrier x corgi mix, and I'm a very good boy! I'm a rescue dog. My owner is a 76 year old lady who loves me and spoils me. Unfortunately my owner is in hospital and I am left alone.

Thank you for taking care of me, there's biscuits, treats, and a new lead here for you take. I am so grateful to have a home to go to, and I promise I'm a good boy.

This was a note left from a 76 year old lady when we collected her dog.

What would you do if you had no family or friends or the financial means for boarding.

Did you know we bring an average of 20 pets per month into care.

No foster carer needed for this one!

We need support in other areas.!

We are so busy with daily ops attending to crises that we don't have time to stop and share all our good work. We are looking for volunteers who have experience in social media marketing and can help us reach our goals.

We are also in desperate need of volunteer caseworkers to help with managing cases. Would suit someone who is semi retired or retired.

Email [email protected] if you are interested.

05/08/2024

***UPDATE - GOOD NEWS - Harley has been found. A big thank you to everyone***

***3RD SIGHTING - 6:40PM Cross Roads towards Cumberland Park - PLEASE DO NOT CHASE

***2ND SIGHTING - 6:20PM Souter Park in Goodwood
***1st SIGHTING - 5:10PM - L'Estrange Street back across Greenhill road towards Dulwich.

*** UPDATE - Large Cash Reward offered for Harley's safe return.***

LOST DOG Fullarton/Parkside 31/7/2024
"Harley"
Male, Tri coloured Beagle. Missing from Purple Pooch groomers in Highgate, spotted on Mellington Street approx 3:15pm and then heading towards Grant Ave about 20 minutes later. No sightings since. He is wearing a collar and harness, my name and number is on it. He will be terrified but he loves schmakos. Don’t try and grab for him he will run, just sent where he is and owners will come. Reward is being offered.
0488 233 313
https://www.facebook.com/knightrider.21

02/08/2024

28/04/2024

So here are all all the adorable creatures l have had the pleasure of caring for in February, March and April. What a wonderful collection, I've had so many cuddles, pats and kisses, best job in the world, what a privilege. 😍🥰💓

02/03/2024

January started with Teddy still as our houseguest and continued visits to his kitty siblings Juno and Caesar. Juno is usually very shy but after a couple of times she was brave enough for pats. I also started visits to sweet Lily who was adopted by my clients after being in foster with my lovely friend Tania ( Ginger Ninja Rescue ). Lily was also shy and hid for the first few visits but then became a total smoocher, trust has to be earned. Lilys family also has chooks and fishes, one cheeky chook escapes and roams the garden, living her best life. Little Sassy was next, she loves toys and we found a lovely spot around wetlands to walk, Sassy enjoyed watching the ducks😅. Regular houseguest Sienna then arrived, she had been having ongoing issues with one of her toes, happy to report nothing sinister was found and she is back walking again. l then headed up to petsit Zed at Walleroo, he just loved his beach walks and his dips in the sea, he told you exactly when it was time to go.😆. Hope you enjoy all the photos.
Teddy, Caesar, Juno, Lily, Sasha( Sassy), Sienna, Zed.

24/02/2024

19/01/2024

Sometimes our volunteers get called upon at all different hours of the day, what does a random day at Safe Pets Safe families look like, at 8am we had a crisis call from a young client and their dog that had a bone stuck in their mouth, the dog needed to be sedated to get the bone out. Then we started on the jobs from the night before, coordinating volunteers to transport animals into foster, coordinating other non urgent appointments, in house feeding of a cat for client who is in hospital, transporting cats home, and so much more the list goes on and it doesn't stop when normal business hours close.

Right now, a volunteer met me at the vet just after 10pm....

Because we have this gorgeous married couple in care with us. Unfortunately, the 16 year old male had collapsed twice, the first time his heart actually stopped, and our foster did CPR the second time it didn't stop thankfully, However, we came to the emergency vet to see what is going on, fingers crossed he just needs some heart meds or something and still has some time left as his owners are homeless and seperated from them at the moment. They are at the vet with them right now though, we called them incase it's time to say goodbye. We also bought both dogs down incase one has to also say goodbye the other is 15 they are inseparable.

Send your love ❤️

Will update you all as soon as we know what's happening.

It takes a village to run Safe Pets Safe families, we could not run this absolutely vital essential service if we didn't have the love and support from our community and networks.

Thank you 😊 we are so grateful even in the gloomy times.

18/01/2024

So here's a very late wrap up of my November and December adorable creatures. There was
Lilly, Scooter, Elly, Isabella, Pheobe, Bella, Pepper, Ralph, Macy, Ella, Jinxy, Lola, stick insects, Gertie, Mazie, Chey, Posey, Monty, Peter, Teddy, Caesar, Juno, Toya, Lucy, Shiloh Bodhi. 😍🤩

17/01/2024

-When I get to heaven, the first thing I am going to do is find you....