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ACS is a sanctuary not a pet shop or breeder. Every guinea pig that enters an ACS shelter is technic This shelter is run, and funded, by one person.
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For this reason, we do ask that prospective adoption homes please be patient (or persistent!) as the workload is often more than one person can cope with! All the animals in our care are given a second chance at a great life. Excellent homes will be sought for all our adoptables. Many of our available animals may not be listed for adoption, simply because of the time taken to keep our adoptable pa

ges up to date. So if you don't see something that you like, please ask as we may have such a piggy in our care already, or we can place you onto a waiting list to be notified when the perfect animal comes along! We will ask for information regarding the care that our adoptables will be given in their new home, and a home check may be asked for. At very least, photographs will be required to show the setup our little guys will be living in. We will also require all adoptive homes to sign an adoption agreement. All information regarding the adoption process can be found on the Australian Cavy Sanctuary website
www.australiancavysanctuary.com

13/08/2024

A massive shout-out to several wonderful organisations/businesses/traders who offer ongoing support to Chuffnut Rescue.

Top of the list is the awesome The General Pet Store, who not only donate a part of their profits to various rescues, including Chuffnut, but they also help us to buy bedding and pellets at cheaper rates, and also donate various close to use-by date products. This week, we received a heaps of piggy pellets - Oxbow and Science Selective!! These awesome pellets help our oldies, sickies and pregnant piggies

17/07/2024

REHOMING CHALLENGE to celebrate Guinea Pig Appreciation Day today!!!

Chuffnut is setting themselves, and all prospective adoptive homes, a massive challenge.

We want to rehome up to 60 guinea pigs within 6 weeks! We are planning to start this challenge on on the weekend of July 20th/21st 2024, ending on the weekend of August 31st/Sept 1st 2024.

Our record for the number of adopted guinera pigs in one adoption event is 16, which was achieved pre-COVID, over a 4 hour adoption event. Can we smash this record to pieces?

Have you ever considered bringing guinea pigs into your home? Do you have some guinea pigs and would like to add more to your little herd? Are you ready to adopt now, or will you be ready in the next 4-6 weeks time?

If you have answered YES to these questions, or would like to reach out to us to chat about this possiblity further, then consider some Chuffnut piggies as your next family additions. All of our animals are health checked, nail-clipped and treated against mites, lice, fungal. They also come with a 100% money-back guarantee! If you can no longer keep your Chuffnut piggies, no matter the reason, we ask that they are returned to the shelter and you will have100% of your adoption fees reimbursed.

Pop over to our website and fill in our no-committment expression-of-interest Online Adoption Enquiry Form www.australianvcavysanctuary.org and any questions can be sent to us at [email protected].

23/05/2024

ADOPTION DAY ON SUNDAY 26th MAY:
https://www.australiancavysanctuary.org/adoption-days

Well, adoption day is fast approaching, and we only have another day to process and approve adoption enquiries. If you are keen to adopt, or have already enquired to adopt but haven't yet heard back from us, please contact us today, and we will get right on it. We will send you the adoption day details too - it will be held in Bundoora on Sunday.

Best to email us at [email protected] so we don't miss it. FB seems to like hiding messages and we find them months later :(

21/05/2024

REPUTABLE GUINEA PIG RESCUES IN AUSTRALIA

We will be building this list in coming weeks. If you know of any rescues, please message us (do not comment on this post as we would prefer to make contact with rescues that we are not familiar with so we can chat about them becoming endorsed by AGPRN).

QUEENSLAND:
* QLD Guinea Pig Refuge
* Gold Coast Guinea Pig Rescue Inc
* Cavy Angel's Guinea Pig Rescue Inc
* Miss Piggys Guinea Pig Lair Inc.
* Porsche's Rescue
* Toowoomba Guinea Pig Rescue
* Alittlebitiffy Animal Sanctuary
* The Fox Residence Animal Sanctuary
* Brisbane Southside Guinea Pig Sanctuary

NEW SOUTH WALES:
* Cavy Central Guinea Pig Rescue ( ACS Sydney)
*Liberty Foundation

VICTORIA:
* Chuffnut Cavies - Australian Cavy Sanctuary Melbourne Shelter
* Oscar’s Rescue - Guinea Pig Sanctuary - VIC
* Lort Smith Adoption Centre (multi-species but do take guinea pigs https://www.facebook.com/lortsmithhospital
* Australian Animal Protection Society (multi-species but have a dedicated small animal unit https://www.facebook.com/AAPSBunspigs
* Freedom for Farmed Rabbits (a rabbit rescue but have been known to take in guinea pigs) https://www.facebook.com/FreedomFarmedRabbits
* Beary Fuzzy Forever Rescue (multi-species but do occasionally take guinea pigs)

TASMANIA:

SOUTH AUSTRALIA:
Guinea Pig Rescue and Rehoming Adelaide https://www.facebook.com/groups/guineapigrescueadl/

WESTERN AUSTRALIA:
* Romeo's Rabbit Rescue (Rabbit rescue that takes in some bunnies. Rehoming standards for buns is great, unsure about guinea pigs, so AGPRN will open communications with this shelter) https://romeosrabbitrescue.com.au

ACT:

While we would love to present a list of suspect "rescues", this may prove difficult. It would be safest to contact your listed reputable shelters for your adoption and surrendering needs as they may be able to refer to you to other rescues that they trust if they, themselves, are not able to assist you.

Please support these legitimate rescues. They are all working hard to provide better outcomes for guinea pigs across Australia, even though some may not have a massive social media presence. Every one of these shelters has animal welfare as the underlying reason for their existence - profit making and pet flipping is not their primary concern. Yes, they will all be in need of financial and physical assistance, so donations and offers for volunteering or fostering will always be welcomed. But selling (flipping) an animal just to make a "sale" is never something a legitimate shelter will do.

Quoting high rehoming rates will always bring into question how careful a so-called shelter is screening the adoptive homes, to ensure that the animals do not end up in a situation that is as bad - or worse - that the situations many have come from.

Please offer your support for those shelters that are in existence for the benefit of the guine pigs, not for them benefit of themselves or their "popularity".

If you have any questions about "shelters" that might not be listed here, please contact us privately as we may have further information to assist you when you choose to support a rescue shelter.

09/05/2024

We will be watching this post very closely...too many non-geniune "rescues" out there at the moment. Social media means you can write whatever you want to write, and people are likely to believe it. But the proof is really in the pudding... How long has the rescue been running? What is their knowledge of the animals they are rescuing? Are the genuinly rehoming to fabulous homes or are they simply "pet flipping"? Do they take their animals to vets? Are they genuinly doing what they can to help animals or are they spending MORE time worrying about their social media content or asking for endless donations? Worth keeping an eye on the Australian Guinea Pig Rescue Network page for updates.

04/05/2024

ADOPTION DAYS:
We have revamped our website to list upcoming adoption days for the rest of the year.
We can also arrange other days to suit adoptive homes if we have enough interest - we are just trying to lock in at least some dates to give our prospective homes some certainty.

09/02/2024

ADOPTION DAY tomorrow Saturday 10th Feb. Greensborough/Bundoora area

Sorry for late notice. If anyone wishes to adopt some lovely piggies tomorrow morning, please pop over to our website and fill in the online adoption enquiry form australiancavysanctuary.org and send us some pics of your piggy cage/setup to [email protected].

If you have already applied in the past and still wish to adopt, please send us an email to [email protected] or [email protected] and I will do my utmost to get the enquiries processed tonight and send you the details on where and when to meet.

If I get swamped with requests and can't possibly wade through them all (unlikley LOL), I will arrange another adoption day in the next 1-2 weeks, or arrange a one-on-one adoption for you in your home.

06/01/2024

Every year, the Guinea Pig Secret Santa Project coordinates an immense program linking kind donors to guinea pig rescues around the world

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This shelter is run, and funded, by one person. For this reason, we do ask that prospective adoption homes please be patient (or persistent!) as the workload is often more than one person can cope with! [NOTE TO ALL ADOPTIVE HOMES: WE ARE CURRENTLY TAKING A BREAK FROM ADOPTIONS AS THE SHELTER MANAGER’S DAD HAS JUST DIED FROM A LONG BATTLE WITH CANCER. ADOPTIONS WILL RESUME AS SOON AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE, HOPEFULLY BY JUNE 2018] ADOPTIONS ARE NOT HELD AT THE SHELTER DUE TO ACCESS AND PRIVACY ISSUES. WE HOLD ADOPTION DAYS OFFSITE EVERY FEW WEEKS, TO APPROVED HOMES. IF YOU ARE KEEN TO ADOPT, PLEASE COMPLETE OUR ONLINE ADOPTION ENQUIRY FORM ON OUR WEBSITE, AND ALSO CONSIDER OUR ADOPTION CHECKLIST TO SEE IF YOU ARE TOTALLY PREPARED TO BRING PIGGIES INTO YOUR LIFE! All the animals in our care are given a second chance at a great life. Excellent homes will be sought for all our adoptables. Many of our available animals may not be listed for adoption, simply because of the time taken to keep our adoptable pages up to date. So if you don't see something that you like, please ask as we may have such a piggy in our care already, or we can place you onto a waiting list to be notified when the perfect animal comes along! We will ask for information regarding the care that our adoptables will be given in their new home, and a home check may be asked for. At very least, photographs will be required to show the setup our little guys will be living in. We will also require all adoptive homes to sign an adoption agreement. All information regarding the adoption process can be found on the Australian Cavy Sanctuary website www.australiancavysanctuary.org