Life of Pikelet

22/11/2025

How goes your weekend?

Here at LoP HQ my days are much the same, be they weekday or weekend.

It’s not a long video, but here is a quick 3 minute s out of my day.

Rhodesian Ridgeback boyo Potjiekos aka Potjie, is now 4 weeks old ❤️

This boy has a very deep and wide cleft palate, and now that he is starting to eat both a premium kibble diet (Taste of the Wild puppy) and a premium balanced raw diet, as well as still being tube fed, his cleft palate needs to be regularly cleaned out throughout the day.

And I’m not sure if you can see in this light, but when I open his mouth his cleft looks clear, but once I get the suction going you can see just how much gunk is up under his cleft in his sinus cavity.

It’s kinda gross but also very satisfying to be able to clear this for him.

Please be advised that nothing I’m doing is hurting him, I am holding his jaw open as he is SO strong and he just hates the sensation of me poking around in his mouth and the noise of the suction. But without doing this, he would become so unwell and still could pass away from a small infection.

A side note: THANK YOU to everyone that rallied for this rescue yesterday. PizzaPie’s vet bills for his big boy op yesterday were covered, and I was able to pay off part of the food bill for the big paddock sanctuary animals (the ponies and deer).

We have not yet been able to raise enough funds for our very very urgent maintenance, website etc needs. The grass on the whole property is so long now that snakes will be out and this scares me.

If you’re able to donate, here are the deets 🙏🏼

HERE IS HOW TO HELP

❤️‍🩹 share our posts with the fund link

❤️‍🩹 adopt our dogs (we have a bunch available with their adoption profile on our website. Pampoenkoekies, Partridge Pie and Pepsi Cola will all be added over the weekend (if we still have a website).

❤️‍🩹 DONATE

🌟 Go Fund Me link here https://gofund.me/c5168ea7f

🌟 PayPal [email protected]

🌟 Bank transfer

CommBank
Acc Name: Calley Gibson
BSB: 063 097
Acc No: 8334 0591
Reference: “SAVING LOP CHRISTMAS APPEAL”

21/11/2025

Pepsi Cola Pug’s spa day yesterday, is urgently brought to you today, by the Saving Life of Pikelet Christmas Appeal.

At 8:30am this morning, our fund was published.

It’s now 1pm and we have a total of 5 donation.

At 5pm tonight we have a $750 vet bill to pay for PizzaPie, a $1010 hire fee for equipment to garden the whole of HQ this weekend (the danger noodles are out and the grass on all 3acres is dangerously long). And we have a Website bill to pay our IT team, there’s about $2000 left on the bill and without that today, our website might be pulled down…. That means no adoption profiles (including PepsiCola’s).

$3760 is today’s URGENT need of funds.

And while we were able to pay off the entire $7000+ food bill last week with YOUR generous support, I’m not sure the same miracle will happen for us today.

HERE IS HOW TO HELP

❤️‍🩹 share our posts with the fund link

❤️‍🩹 adopt our dogs (we have a bunch available with their adoption profile on our website. Pampoenkoekies, Partridge Pie and Pepsi Cola will all be added over the weekend (if we still have a website).

❤️‍🩹 DONATE

🌟 Go Fund Me link here https://gofund.me/c5168ea7f

🌟 PayPal [email protected]

🌟 Bank transfer

CommBank
Acc Name: Calley Gibson
BSB: 063 097
Acc No: 8334 0591
Reference: “SAVING LOP CHRISTMAS APPEAL”

Pepsi Cola is now on a 100% balanced raw diet. He is eating the good stuff that you all rallied to cover with donations last week. And what does that mean? P**p explosions and spa bath are a daily thing now 😷💩🛁

20/11/2025

HO HO HO 🎅🏼🤶🏼

🎄SAVING LIFE OF PIKELET Christmas appeal 🎄

It’s been a tough couple of years here at LoP.

Now we are on our last legs and really need to do something drastic!

We really need to raise ALL these funds before Christmas 2025 if we have any hope of returning in 2026 as a functional rescue and content creator on your socials.

This GFM is very detailed, these are, once again our URGENT funding needs!!! (Our previous and similar fund will be closed today and this one will replace it)

To help this little rescue finally recover from lots of loss, tragedy and parvovirus outbreak, details below!

To DONATE

🌟 Go Fund Me link here https://gofund.me/c5168ea7f

🌟 PayPal [email protected]

🌟 Bank transfer

CommBank
Acc Name: Calley Gibson
BSB: 063 097
Acc No: 8334 0591
Reference: "SAVING LOP CHRISTMAS APPEAL”

Please don’t give up on this little special needs rescue 💔🙏🏼

2025 has been a year of a lot of sadness and loss for Life of Pikelet. … Calley Gibson needs your support for Saving Life of Pikelet Christmas 2025 appeal

20/11/2025

Livin’ the dream.
Fresh and clean.

18/11/2025

Sweet dreams from this little bb ridgeback boyo to you 💤

16/11/2025

Take a chill pill okay?

Dont have one? Well here ya go…

PROZAC is back and he is looking for his forever home 💊❤️

This sweet british bulldog boyo is a LoP alumni that has found himself back on the market in search for a forever home he can call his own.

Interested?

Find out all deets here https://lifeofpikelet.com/adoptable/prozac/

16/11/2025

1 year with you ❤️

Happy Gotcha Day to bb Punchdrunk Huckleberry II

A year ago today, Patty and I met up with LoP Aunty Cat, and we walked into the wat djerring animal facility (council pound).

We had a meet and greet, possibly adoption interview with a little stray pup that had arrived at the pound with a big tummy hernia, he had been caught straying on the streets of Melbourne. The day he landed himself in the pound was the 24th of October 2024… the same day Pikelet gained his wings.

I was already smitten from hearing about this puppy via phone interviews with pound staff. But it was all up to Patty Cakes, I wanted him to tell me if this puppy was the right fit for this family.

We were there for about an hour, I signed the adoption paperwork and the rest is history.

Punchdrunk is one half of my teenage dirtbag duo (Persnickety is the other). These pups have been a wild ride, two at the same time going through adolescence while I still have lots of fosters in care. Always getting up to something.

What I adore about Punchy is not only is he a beautifully natured dog and a bit of a mama’s boi (very needy when it comes to cuddles) but there are so many parts of him that are almost the reincarnation, or rather an echo of his big angel brother Patty. It’s uncanny how much Punchy is like Patty.

Monday will be a special day that I take both boys for their very first Gotcha Day maccas run. After all… it’s tradition.

13/11/2025

Take 15 seconds to relax, deep breaths and remember, tomorrow is Friday 🤍

ps for everyone who donated, shared and spread the word to help fund the almost $10,000 vet bill for our parvo puppies… this video of sweet Pillsbury starting to enjoy her life is a testament to what your support for little old Life of Pikelet Rescue does. Helping us give them a second, sometimes third, chance at life.

12/11/2025

Team! Our friends at have reached their first goal of raising $450,000 and now they are aiming for $500,000 as their partners have pledged to triple donations up to $500k 😱

Thank you to everyone who donated, let’s keep this going, let’s help them so they can help more.

Today we support our incredibly amazing friends over at (Pets of the Homeless) who are rallying for donations, why? Because until midnight tonight, ALL donations will be tripled in value!!!

Pillsbury Puff is SO happy she can lend a paw and use her cuteness to rally more amazing donors 💘

Pets of the Homeless work tirelessly year round to keep pets with their people during times of crisis. They don’t just assist with emergency foster care, emergency vet care, emergency pet food but they also help the humans and work with case workers and shelters for unhoused to keep pets with their people.

Remember, you donate like $20, and that gets matched twice more! Every dollar donated by midnight tonight gets the value tripled!!!

DONATE via this link https://www.petsofthehomeless.org.au/event/nevertearthemapart/giving-day

12/11/2025

Did you DO IT yet? Did you donate to ???

Come on, do it!!! We did!

Today we support our incredibly amazing friends over at (Pets of the Homeless) who are rallying for donations, why? Because until midnight tonight, ALL donations will be tripled in value!!!

Partridge Pie & Pampoenkoekies here got today’s fits on ready to represent and encourage everyone to donate, do it!

Pets of the Homeless work tirelessly year round to keep pets with their people during times of crisis. They don’t just assist with emergency foster care, emergency vet care, emergency pet food but they also help the humans and work with case workers and shelters for unhoused to keep pets with their people.

Remember, you donate like $20, and that gets matched twice more! Every dollar donated by midnight tonight gets the value tripled!!!

DONATE via this link https://www.petsofthehomeless.org.au/event/nevertearthemapart/giving-day

10/11/2025

Strutting into the vets with a flex that you survived parvovirus 💅🏽