Aotearoa Animal Refuge

17/10/2025

🌟🐾 Meet Everest (Evie) – Our Energetic Sweetheart!🐾🌟

Introducing Evie, a small-breed, 9-month-old female Sharpei cross small dog with a big heart, lots of love to give, and endless playful energy.
📍 Location: East Auckland

Evie came into our care after being gifted to a 75-year-old woman as a companion. Unfortunately, she hadn’t received any basic training, so her hyperactivity, lack of potty training, and playful destruction of furniture made her a bit too much to handle.

She has now been trained and thriving beautifully.

💛 Personality:
Evie is bright, affectionate, and full of energy. She loves cuddles, enjoys being close to her people, and will happily follow you everywhere. She can be a little nippy when excited, but she’s learning quickly with structure, training, and patience.

She thrives on activity and needs daily walks or runs to burn off her energy. Evie is currently being trained alongside other dogs, cats, and small animals to develop her social skills and learn good boundaries.

She’s a fast learner and responds well to attention, routine, and praise.

🐾 Commands Evie Knows:
🛏️ Go to Bed
🪑 Sit
📣 Come
🚻 Potty

🐕 Ideal Home:
Evie would love another doggy companion in her forever home — a friendly, confident dog will help her learn, play, and feel more settled.

👨‍👩‍👧 Best Family Match:
Evie will do best with an active family or individual who can match her energy and continue her training.
She’d love:
🏡 A fully fenced home (high fencing recommended)with room to run and play
🚶‍♀️ Daily walks or runs and regular public association to build her confidence
💕 A patient, loving family who will guide her with kindness and consistency

💲 Adoption Fee: $350

📦 Includes:
✅ Spay
✅ Vaccination
✅ Microchip & NZCAR Registration
✅ 30 Days FREE Pet Cover with Pet-n-Sur Insurance

📩 Interested in meeting Evie?
Please fill in our Meet & Greet form here:
👉 https://forms.gle/wrfntUpRD71LFz2p9

💛 Support Evie’s Care:
Donations help us cover her training and vet costs.
💳 *Aotearoa Animal Refuge
**Account:** 01-0190-0581888-00 (Ref: Evie)

Every little bit makes a difference — thank you for being part of her journey!

17/10/2025

🌼🐶 Coco Is Still Waiting & Ready for Her Forever Home! 🏡💛

Meet Coco — a beautiful mixed-breed girl with a heart full of love and energy!

🗓️ Born:est. 30/01/2025

💉 Vet Work Done:Speyed, 1st Vaccination, Microchipped & Registered with NZCAR
📦 Bonus: Comes with 30 days’ free Pet-n-Sur cover

Coco was abandoned at just 7 weeks old. Since then, she’s been raised with love and care in foster — and now she’s ready to find her forever cuddle buddy.

🌟 About Coco:
🐾 Approx 9 months old
🐾 Cat, chicken & small-animal friendly
🐾 Great with other dogs and adores people
🐾 **Super affectionate** — loves cuddles, hugs when you say I love you, and will happily lick you forever! 💋
🐾 Knows her commands: Sit, Shake Hands, Go Car, Go Bed, Hugs, and Potty
🐾 Collar trained and enjoys park walks, fetch, and adventures
🐾 Loves her chicken & bikkies — plus a spoon of natural yoghurt & honey for her sensitive skin
🐾 Still young, energetic, and learning — gets a little nippy when excited, and listens best when food is involved

💖 Coco will love you fiercely and make every day brighter with her loyalty and affection.

📦 Adoption includes:
✔️ Speyed
✔️ 1st Vaccination
✔️ Microchip & NZCAR Registration
✔️ 42 Days Free Pet Insurance

💰 Adoption Fee: $350.00

📩 To arrange a meet & greet, please fill in the form below:
👉 https://forms.gle/xP574cKwdyWgLpYD7

💛 Want to help more pups like Coco?
Please consider donating to support our rescue efforts — every bit helps save more lives.

07/10/2025

Our sweet Mei and her 8 adorable kits are growing fast — almost 3 weeks old now! 🍼🐇 They’ve started nibbling on food alongside their mumma and are absolutely loving it.

It’s such a joy watching them explore, play, and learn from Mei — she’s doing an amazing job caring for her little ones. 🌿✨

Stay tuned for more cute updates as these fluffballs continue to grow! 🐾💕

07/10/2025

🐰💖 Update from the Bunny Nursery! 💖🐰

Our sweet Mei and her 8 adorable kits are growing fast — almost 3 weeks old now! 🍼🐇 They’ve started nibbling on food alongside their mumma and are absolutely loving it.

It’s such a joy watching them explore, play, and learn from Mei — she’s doing an amazing job caring for her little ones. 🌿✨

Stay tuned for more cute updates as these fluffballs continue to grow! 🐾💕

04/10/2025

🐾 Trio Senior Dogs – Off to Their New Mummy! 🐾

Our beautiful Trio of Senior Dogs have been in loving foster care for the past 7 weeks— enjoying grooming, warm baths, cuddles, and so much love. 💞

Today, they begin a new chapter as they head to their forever home in Christchurch with their new mummy, Jill! 🏡🐶

A few tears were shed as we said goodbye, but our hearts are full knowing they’ll be cherished and cared for just as they deserve. 💖

A huge thank you to the incredible team at A4 Dibble Pet Transport 🚐 for their amazing service and generous discount — what a blessing! 🙏

We’re truly grateful these three touched our hearts and reminded us what love and second chances look like. ❤️

https://a4dibblepettransport.nz

03/10/2025

🐾 URGENT FOSTER NEEDED – 2 x 2-Week-Old Kittens 🐾

Our very first rescue kittens have just come in from Panmure – two tiny 2-week-old babies who urgently need a foster willing to bottle-feed them 💕

To give them the best start, we’re also in need of supplies:
🍼 Kitten formula
🍽️ Kitten biscuits
🥫 Royal Canin Babycat Mousse

📍 Drop-off points available in:

Pakuranga

Papatoetoe

Pukekohe

Farm Cove

💛 If you’d like to help but can’t drop off, you can donate directly to support their care:
Aotearoa Animal Refuge
ANZ Bank – 01-0190-0581888-00

Every kitten that comes into our care is:
✔️ Vet checked
✔️ Desexed
✔️ Vaccinated
✔️ Microchipped

These little ones can only survive with the community’s support. Please share or donate if you can – every bit helps! 🙏🐱

22/09/2025

🐇✨ Bunny Help Needed! ✨🐇

We’re reaching out because right now we have 3 beautiful bunnies in our care plus 8 tiny baby kits 🐰💛

With so many little mouths to feed, we are going through food, hay, and other bunny essentials very quickly.

If you’d like to support, we would be so grateful for:
🌱 Donations towards food & hay
🥕 Bunny-safe items (pellets, hay, litter, toys, etc.)
💖 Any help, big or small, makes a huge difference!

If you’d like to donate or drop off items, please send us a message. Your support helps us keep these buns happy, healthy, and thriving! 🐇🌿

Thank you so much for helping us care for them 💛

✨ Donations can be made to:
Aotearoa Animal Refuge
01-0190-0581888-00

17/09/2025

🌸💖 Thank You for Supporting Our Senior Trio 💖🌸

We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has donated and supported our sweet seniors while they’ve been in rescue care. 🐾

✨ Daily Care & Love
Our foster family has been lovingly bathing Pearly and Sski Sski every day. Pearly is also kept comfortable and dry with nappies. They’ve all had multiple vet visits for consultations and medications, and we are so grateful for the advice and care they’ve received.

🐶 Health Updates

Pearly (11 yrs) – Sadly, Pearly is too old to undergo desexing and experiences discharge of blood. If anyone has vet recommendations or experience, we’d love to hear from you. 💕

Sski Sski – Struggles with water retention, heart issues, and dental problems, but cannot have teeth removed due to his health. 💔

Ddok Ddok – Diagnosed with a heart murmur and epilepsy. 💞

🥦 Holistic Support
We’ve been giving them a nourishing diet of chicken, beef, brown rice, fresh veggies, turmeric, extra virgin olive oil, fish oil, parsley, mint, dandelion, and plantain leaves. Alongside their prescribed medications (Disampen and Fruesimide), they also enjoy coconut water, apple cider vinegar in their drinking water, and weak chamomile tea for anxiety. 🌿☕

🧼 Pampering & Enrichment
They’re groomed daily, enjoy gentle daily walks, playtime in the parks, and most importantly—lots of cuddles and love. 💖

🏡 Happy New Beginning
We are so excited to share that Jill from Waiuku Beach near Christchurch has opened her heart and home to adopt our precious trio. 💕🐾 A huge thank you also to the wonderful team at A4Dibble Pet Transport, who kindly discounted their travel costs to make this journey possible. ✈️

We will miss Pearly, Sski Sski, and Ddok Ddok dearly, but knowing they are together and loved in their forever home brings us so much comfort. 🌈🐾

🙏 Thank you all for keeping them in your thoughts and hearts, and for making happy endings like this possible.

15/09/2025

Meet Lily, a retired home's perfect match! 💖🐾
This 11-year-old sweetheart is a 4.5kg lap dog who loves to lounge in the sun ☀️ and cuddle on the armchair. Lily is looking for a quiet home with an elderly person or couple to spend her golden years with. 🏡

She's great with grandkids (doesn't really interact) and is used to being left alone. Lily is crate-trained and socializes well with other dogs in the home, but prefers her own space on walks. She has a heart murmur that requires daily medication.

Lily is enthusiastic about greeting everyone at the door 👋 and loves her toys. She's currently in Hamilton and ready for her forever retirement home!

If you are interested in giving Lily a loving retirement home, please contact Tanya at +64 298297563 or email [email protected].

COMMUNITY PET REHOMING - . The dog remains under the care and legal responsibility of its current owner until a new home is found. We are not liable for the dog's health, temperament, or any related issues.

09/09/2025

🚨 URGENT: Forever Home Needed! 🏡❤️

🐾 This handsome 11-month-old German Shepherd/Staffy mix urgently needs a forever home!
✨ she’s a sweet, energetic girl who’s great with both kids 👧🧒 and other pets 🐶🐱.

💉 Fully vaccinated
❌ Not yet desexed
⛏️ Has had some issues with digging and 🚧 jumping fences, but with consistent training, he can overcome these behaviors.

This dog is currently under the care of his owners, and they are responsible for his rehoming. We’re just helping share his story 💌.

📞 If you are interested, please contact Kim at 0210692347 📲🐕

09/09/2025

✨🐇 We’re Counting Down to the Auckland Pet Expo! 🐇✨ Rabbit Rescue Aotearoa will be on site with bunnies!

Our project manager and volunteers are busy preparing, and we’re so excited to be part of this amazing event! We’re setting up a fun and interactive booth to raise vital funds for our rescue rabbits — but we need your help to make the day extra special. 💕

We’re looking for donations of:
✅ Large rabbit toys (chew toys, tunnels, treat balls)
✅ Wrapped small prizes for our Lucky Dip
✅ Balloons & a disco-style tablecloth 🎈✨
✅ Rabbit-safe treats & hay (greens, dried forage)

Every little contribution helps us create a safe, engaging, and fun experience for families — and all funds raised will go directly to the care of our rescue rabbits. 🐇💖

📍 Ways you can support:
👉 Donate items (message us to arrange pickup/drop-off)
👉 Share this post to spread the word
👉 Visit our booth on the day for Lucky Dips, face painting, bunny treats & more!

Together, we can make this event a huge success and give our bunnies the love and care they deserve. 🌱💚

💌 Rabbit Rescue Aotearoa – Moving Mountains for Little Paws 🐾

Get your tickets now 🎟️ https://www.petanimalexpo.co.nz/

07/09/2025

🐾 How to Help Our Animals! 🐾
Whether you want to help by providing a temporary foster home, or meet a potential new family member, here’s where to start!

🙋‍♀️ Become a Volunteer
Want to lend a hand? Fill out our volunteer form to join our team!
👉 https://forms.gle/sekJmc1MJbJ74Fu77

🏡 Become a Foster
Open your home to an animal in need and give them a safe place to land.
👉 https://forms.gle/3V9wS5hAkD62Lwug8

🐕 Schedule a Meet & Greet
Found a furry friend you’d love to meet? Let us know with our meet and greet form.
👉 https://forms.gle/VTC8YPxYE3U99YYcA

💖 Another Way to Help
Fostering and adopting aren’t the only ways to support our animals. A donation, no matter how small, goes directly toward giving them the care and love they deserve while they wait for their forever homes.

💳 Donate Now: Aotearoa Animal Refuge
Bank: 01-0190-0581888-00

thank you for your interest in volunteering with aotearoa animal refuge our dedicated volunteers are what make a difference.