At Sweet Pea Animal Rescue, we provide short-term direct care to animals that have been lost, mistreated or are without owners. This includes the relief and prevention of pain as well as the rehabilitation of orphaned, sick or injured animals, with the ultimate goal of finding suitable permanent homes for these animals post-care.

In addition, we provide life term care to animals that are: terminally ill or geriatric and require ongoing medications and monitoring to ensure comfort and pain-free living at the end stages of life. We believe prevention is the best cure and focus on educating the community on the prevention of animal cruelty and the promotion of responsible pet ownership. As part of this, we encourage the desexing of animals where appropriate.

We also engage in voluntary work abroad, providing veterinary treatment for sick and injured animals and wildlife; desexing of domestic animals that are with or without owners; promotion of responsible pet ownership; and promotion of the prevention of cruelty to animals.

Sweet Pea Animal Hospital and Sweet Pea Animal Rescue are managed and run independently of each other. Our rescue organisation is self-funded, raising funds through our adoption fees, events, raffles, and donations. The hospital provides veterinary treatment and preventative health care to the rescue animals at cost price. So, in reality the hospital is ancillary to the rescue and by bringing your pets to the hospital for their health care needs, you are supporting our rescue animals and the charity work that we do through Sweet Pea Animal Rescue.

Rescue animals come into our care directly from pounds, from other rescue organisations when additional veterinary treatment is required, surrendered by owners, or abandoned. We provide housing, nutrition, preventative health care, acute health care, training, enrichment, socialisation and love until we can find each of them an appropriate home. 

Before being adopted each of our rescue animals will be: desexed, microchipped, vaccinated, and treated for fleas, ticks & intestinal worms. They will also have received a full health check. Our mature rescues have blood screening carried out and a heartworm test performed.

All interested adopters must complete an Adoption Questionnaire, prior to meeting the rescue animal they are interested in. This assists us in ensuring that we have found the most suitable forever home for each of our rescue animals. Following this, a meet and greet is arranged with all family members and any other pets living in the household. 

If all goes well, the adoption is completed, and a two week trial period begins. It is rare that any adoptees are returned within the trial period, but this allows both parties time to ensure that the right decision has been made.

We are very fortunate to have a team of dedicated volunteers who help to care for our rescue animals. We have three daily dog volunteer shifts that include walking the rescue dogs, feeding & watering, and cleaning their enclosures. We also have two cat volunteer shifts daily that include cleaning enclosures, feeding & watering. All shifts include providing enrichment, affection, training and comfort to our rescue animals.

We also require volunteer assistance in administration, fundraising, social media, photography, profiling, & foster care. 

We do not have any paid roles in our rescue organisation, and for the moment, any shortfall in staffing is catered for by Sweet Pea Animal Hospital.

If you would like to become a volunteer, please email sweetpeaanimalrescue@gmail.com or drop by the hospital and pick up a volunteer application form.

We welcome any ideas or suggestions relating to fundraising. If you have a local business and would be happy to keep a donation box on your counter, please let us know.