DonateWe NEED your help to get pets to safety.
Now more than ever, your help matters. Recently, we had a spike in need with 35 pets entering care in just two weeks, maxing our capacity and placing eight pets on a waitlist. In an average month, we typically help 15 pets.
When pets don't have a safe temporary shelter while their families escape abuse, their only options are to stay with the abuser, be left behind or be seperated from their families. Every day families have to choose between their pet and their safety.
That is a choice no one should have to make. So we are turning to you and asking for help to get these pets off the waitlist.
a month will provide a safe bed for one night
a month will provide a safe bed for two nights
a month will provide a safe bed for three nights
a month will provide a safe bed for four nights
This will provide shelter for a pet in need.
can help keep a pet warm, safe and looked after for one day and night.
can help give enrichment to a vulnerable pet to reduce stress and trauma.
can help keep a pet warm, safe and looked after for four days and nights.
can help provide veterinary care for a pet in need.
This will provide shelter for a pet in need.
Why monthly donation?
What matters for us and the pets we help is security. But currently, regular donations only cover 60% of our program costs, making it ever more challenging to sustain our care and provide safety and reach more pets and families trying to escape violence.
By signing up for a regular plan you give us the security to say 'yes' to every pet that needs our help.
Knowing you have our back, every month, means we can have theirs. No matter the time or day.
Where does the money go?
When you sign-up for a monthly gift, 100% of your donation goes directly towards the care of pets and our program costs. This includes transport pets across the country to safety, enrichment, and training to help pets who have experienced trauma, veterinary care to help them heal and transporting pets back to their families once it is safe to do so.
With a monthly donation of $25 we can give a pet their first night of safety, free from abuse. Providing families with peace of mind and the chance to start anew.
Read more on Buddy's story:
Buddy arrived at Pet Refuge with many physical and medical ailments. Often pets who come from violence don’t have access to veterinary care, either as a result of financial abuse or because their wellbeing has been used as a means for coercion and control.
Buddy was covered in fleas, antagonising his underlying skin issues, he was unvaccinated and limping from an old injury to his hind leg. The Pet Refuge team and trusted Veterinarians immediately put a plan in place to get Buddy feeling like his best self again. An estimated 90% of pets we care for require medical treatment above and beyond a general health check.
Buddy was treated for fleas, bathed twice weekly, ointments applied routinely, and medications administered daily. He has also had surgery to repair his hind leg. The team stayed by his side, holding his paw through every moment
Pet Refuge not only shelters pets while their families escape violence but prioritises pet welfare too.
Our Safe Beds for Pets family of regular givers helps us provide everything pets like Buddy need from transport to food, enrichment, training veterinary care and a warm bed.
It’s amazing to have somewhere pets can go like Pet Refuge. Because that’s the heartbreaking thing. If it didn’t exist, I would have had to probably re-home him. And that would have been my worst nightmare.
*Olivia - Pet Refuge client & family violence survivor