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PATTY CAKES HUCKLEBERRY STOLL little bro in training.

PIKELET BUTTERWIGGLE STOLL Foster brother extraordinaire & published Author is most notably renowned for his status as Australia's premier Ambassadog for Rescue & Pound pups Australia & World wide.

08/06/2026

It’s not shark week but it kinda is with these jaws 🦈

03/06/2026

Just because 💘

Praline will be 8 weeks old this coming Friday.

01/06/2026

I’m not gonna lie, I actually gifted this baby the name PRALINE just so I could do a video with this song (and another).

Ever since this tubby little micro bully girl arrived into care last week, I have been perpetually squealing at her every move out of sheer delight at how adoraBULL she is.

Praline is 7 weeks and 2 days old, her breeder stayed in close contact with me, doing all the hard work of round the clock tube feeding to raise this sweet baby girl.

One vet thinks she may have a very short soft palate, while I suspect her soft palate is in the shape of what’s known as a “swallow tail shaped soft palate cleft”, it sort of looks like a big “W”.

Anytime Praline guzzled milk from her mama or later, drank water from a bowl or had some runny yoghurt, the liquids would come back up her nose much like a puppy with a soft palate cleft.

Weirdly enough, I’ve heard of many GP vets tell breeders that a soft palate cleft is *mild* and encouraged them to put pup on mum to drink.

In my years of experience as a specialist neonate rescuer, soft palate clefts alone are often the most dangerous & almost always need a cleft repair surgery.

Dr Arthur House (our go-to surgical specialist) is already aware of Praline and will see her when she is around 12 weeks old.

For now, this beautiful little landshark will be terrorizing all at LoP HQ.

Oh and since these “pocket bullies” aka “micro bullies” aka “mini pitties” are always SO popular to adopt, anyone wishing to throw their hat in the ring for this baby girl had better be one of the very few who watched her announcement video earlier today.

With our video earlier today, we’ve had a total of ZERO dollars donated and super low engagement across all socials.

Our food bill is expected to be around $1600 this week (we now have to pay as we go).
Our sanctuary deer & miniature ponies have a food bill of $600 this week.
Our vet visit tomorrow for 3 x dogs (including Praline) is expected to be close to $1k

And of course I had to hire emergency services this morning as damage done by some of the foster pups resulted in a catastrophic issue for the running of the rescue.

Things are feeling pretty hopeless 💔

01/06/2026

The artwork 👉🏼 The artists

Have you ever fostered a puppy or a dog and they’ve done some damage, be it that they’ve eaten your fave shoes or perhaps your fave sofa?

How about all the electrics to your septic tank pump so the whole house can no longer have running water, use the bathroom, do loads of washing or wash up in the kitchen sink?

This is a $2000+ expense I have to somehow pay in just 30minutes once the new pump is installed and the electrics reconfigured 😭

Technically this should be a rescue expense as the damage caused was by multiple foster puppies (back during their destructive phase, you’re welcome to whoever adopts these two because I got them during their naughty puppy period so you don’t have to worry). I’m looking at you Pampoenkoekies and Partridge Pie 👀

So, I know it’s a long shot but if anyone wanted to casually donate towards this hefty bill, please feel free to do so (I would love you forever and ever).

To donate to this massive urgent bill or any of our other ridiculously urgent needs (three dogs in at the vet tomorrow, paddock animals food bill etc etc), see below for details
here:

Go Fund Me
- on insta via the first 🔗 link in our bio.
- or via this link https://gofund.me/99d5cdd12

PayPal [email protected]

DIRECT BANK TRANSFER
Bank CommBank
Acc Name Calley Gibson
BSB 063-517
Acc No. 10269498
Reference “Life of Pikelet Rescue”

31/05/2026

HERE IT IS…. Start your week off right with this absolute MUST watch with a small dose of

There are two objectives with this video of fun:

1) To showcase our sweet adoptables who have had zero adoption enquiries. ALL their adoption profiles with details on what we are looking for are on our website www.lifeofpikelet.com/adoptables

2) Our rescue has a very expensive week this week.
- three pups are headed into the vet on Tuesday (tomorrow)
- our first fortnightly food bill due on Wednesday
- electrical repairs sorted from damage by puppy teeth
- sanctuary animals (deer & ponies) food order

And that’s just the main stuff! It all amasses to around $4000 and since I took a week off from socials last week, I’m kinda panicked about how or if we can raise these urgent funds…

So your task?

Share our beautiful adoptables and rally the troops for donations!!!

Deal? And of course, PLEASE & THANK YOU 🙏🏼

here;

Go Fund Me
- on insta via the first 🔗 link in our bio.
- or via this link https://gofund.me/99d5cdd12

PayPal [email protected]

DIRECT BANK TRANSFER
Bank CommBank
Acc Name Calley Gibson
BSB 063-517
Acc No. 10269498
Reference “Life of Pikelet Rescue”

22/05/2026

11 years ago…

Pikelet & Papple (aka Pineapple 🍍) in the OG custom made battle jackets from our dear friends 🖤

22/05/2026

PAMPOENKOEKIES
HOW TO SAY 👉🏼 pump-poon-cook-keys
Aka Kookies, Kooka, Kookaburra, Baby

THANK YOU to the kind donors who have so far donated $148.57 for Kookies.

And many thanks to the two donors coving Partridge Pie’s vet needs next week (desexing & cytopoint injection).

At this stage I’m going to hold off rushing Kookies to emergency vet over the weekend (as long as nothing further develops). And on Monday I’ll have to assess what funds we have and if enough, he’ll need to go in for a full work up of bloods, examination and possibly have some scans done to make sure we aren’t dealing with something more sinister.

Being Friday and going into the weekend, this is the most impossible time to fund raise, idk why but it’s usually the way.

After the huge success raising urgent funds for our food bill, perhaps it looks like that’s it and this rescue still isn’t on struggle street.

I’m hoping that some humans out there will watch this video and see that this *typical* aussie rescue staffy x boyo that we see thousands of in rescues and shelters around the country, will send som love & support his way.

Please help us raise $2000 in funds (from experience this will be approx of what we need to begin with) 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Go Fund Me
- on insta via the first 🔗 link in our bio.
- or via this link https://gofund.me/99d5cdd12

PayPal [email protected]

DIRECT BANK TRANSFER
Bank CommBank
Acc Name Calley Gibson
BSB 063-517
Acc No. 10269498
Reference “Kookies”

21/05/2026

PARTRIDGE PIE & PAMPOENKOEKIES have both been waiting for a forever family of their own.

Do you know how many adoption applications have come in for these adoptable babes? Z E R O

I’m not going to lie, I took in these two pups thinking that they’d be in rescue for a mere month or so.

Pampoenkoekies (aka Kookies) was being given away for “free” on gumtree before I was alerted to his plight. Once he was surrendered at LoP HQ, his previous family never once asked about him again.

The day Kookies was surrendered he sat waiting by the front entrance for 12 hours straight, confused and sad.

Partridge Pie was found as a stray in an outback NSW regional town. She was perhaps 3-4 months old and extremely skinny.

I wanted to help just two *regular* pups and prove that this rescue wasn’t just about neonates… but months have rolled on and not a single enquiry about either of them.

And because nobody out there wants them, they stay here with me, waiting.

I love them both dearly, but they need families of their own. They deserve to feel like the centre of their world and not one of many.

When a dog stays in foster care for a lengthy time, it means more resources go into that dog. Food, cleaning, fresh bedding, time, energy and vet care.

Partridge Pie is waiting for funds to be available for her desexing surgery, so far they are always (the funds) pushed to the back burner as more urgent things need paying for.

Kookies has had all his vet work completed, but now he needs some specialist vet care for his extremely swollen neck gland.

I need to find a further $650 for Partridge Pie & $1000-$2000 for Kookies.

I’m confident that the aggressive antibiotics is kicking in for Kookies, the size has reduced. I’m hoping to push out his vet needs until early next week (and not in emergency). Once his giant gland goes down, I will need to get some testing done to make sure there isn’t something more sinister happening.

But what I can do is ask for your help with these forgotten two hunnies ❤️❤️

Go Fund Me
- on insta via the first 🔗 link in our bio.
- or via this link https://gofund.me/99d5cdd12

PayPal [email protected]

DIRECT BANK TRANSFER
Bank CommBank
Acc Name Calley Gibson
BSB 063-517
Acc No. 10269498
Reference “forgotten two”

21/05/2026

lol silly me for feeling rich in donations for a hot second!!! 😂

This is how it works, you have a lil extra money unexpectedly happen and you get a little too excited to finally be able to pay off some bills.

PAMPOENKOEKIES aka Kookies has decided for me! That’s right, that almost $1800 we raised yesterday after our huge food bill was generously paid off, well that has already been spent at emergency vets 💔

We did get to pay off some vet bills, and I have updated the Go Fund Me to reflect which ones we paid off.

But foster boyo Kookies here decided to throw a spanner into the works with a gigantic swollen gland (that’s what the emergency vet thinks).

It’s not as bad as it looks (yet). Kookies has zero idea that he is wearing a large neck goiter as an accessory, he is still eating, pooping, playing, barking and running as normal. His tail is still wagging (if you squint you can see the tail blur).

But it’s looking like he may need surgery if the high dosage of antibiotics doesn’t work its magic.

It would just be our luck that the weekend is coming up and that means not only are we potentially looking at an emergency vet visit, it’s highly likely that it’ll land on a after hours weekend night (seems to always be the way).

So here I am, back here asking for your help.

I have two somewhat urgent needs for funds now:

1) Partridge Pie’s desexing surgery and cytopoint injections (because I was allocating yesterday’s funds to that).
2) Emergency funds so that I can leave a deposit for potential surgery for Kookies, it’s something the ER vets insist on and it’s usually 50% which could be up to $1500.

It’s a big ask, but I’m here needing to find at least $2000 in funds so that I don’t have to hesitate on emergency care.

GFM have not yet released the funds raised yesterday, it could be next week before they land in our rescue account.

So if you can and would like to help my lumpy lil good boy, please donate & share this post 🙏🏼

Go Fund Me via this link https://gofund.me/99d5cdd12

PayPal [email protected]

DIRECT BANK TRANSFER
Bank CommBank
Acc Name Calley Gibson
BSB 063-517
Acc No. 10269498
Reference “Kookies”

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