About Qld Guinea Pig Refuge
Qld Guinea Pig Refuge (QGPR) is a not-for-profit community services organisation dedicated to supporting, rescuing, and finding homes for lost, abandoned, unwanted and mistreated guinea pigs in Queensland. QGPR is 100% volunteer and donations based, having an extraordinary and hard working team of volunteers, foster carers and other behind the scenes helpers. All these wonderful people donate their time and money to QGPR and are the back bone of this organisation.
QGPR has a NO EUTHANASIA policy. This policy extends to all guinea pigs, unless their medical conditions are so severe that treatment is not possible and there is no other option. We will always put 100% into the treatment and care of our guinea pigs in order to get them back to the best of health.
QGPR will take any ill, injured, unwanted or found guinea pigs from the public. These guinea pigs will be treated and/or fostered, and then re-homed under strict adoption procedures. In extreme cases, QGPR may accept cases from interstate where another supported rescue cannot help. We believe that every guinea pig deserves their voice to be heard and to be given a chance, and we will listen to any requests for help.
Qld Guinea Pig Refuge does not have an actual 'Refuge'. All our guinea pigs live with foster carers in their homes in the Brisbane area; however we work with other guinea pig rescue organisations across various areas of Queensland.
The Refuge holds open days on the first and third Saturday of every month at the Bald Hills Scout Den, 508 Bracken Ridge Road, Bracken Ridge. For more information, click here.
QGPR has a NO EUTHANASIA policy. This policy extends to all guinea pigs, unless their medical conditions are so severe that treatment is not possible and there is no other option. We will always put 100% into the treatment and care of our guinea pigs in order to get them back to the best of health.
QGPR will take any ill, injured, unwanted or found guinea pigs from the public. These guinea pigs will be treated and/or fostered, and then re-homed under strict adoption procedures. In extreme cases, QGPR may accept cases from interstate where another supported rescue cannot help. We believe that every guinea pig deserves their voice to be heard and to be given a chance, and we will listen to any requests for help.
Qld Guinea Pig Refuge does not have an actual 'Refuge'. All our guinea pigs live with foster carers in their homes in the Brisbane area; however we work with other guinea pig rescue organisations across various areas of Queensland.
The Refuge holds open days on the first and third Saturday of every month at the Bald Hills Scout Den, 508 Bracken Ridge Road, Bracken Ridge. For more information, click here.
Meet our Mascot - Honey!
Honey was surrendered to a since-closed Brisbane shelter and transferred to Qld Guinea Pig Refuge when we opened in 2013. She was suffering from two severely broken hind legs, the right with the bone protruding. These injuries had been left untreated for two weeks. Honey was adopted by a QGPR foster carer and has lived with her ever since.
On first arrival at the vet, we were told she had 10% chance at keeping her hind legs. Through many vet trips, Honey has continued to amaze everyone around her, including her vet. Honey successfully undertook two operations - one which saved her right leg and another to amputate her left leg. That wasn't the end for poor five month old Honey though - she went on to undergo dental surgery, further X-rays and ultrasounds. Her speedy and overwhelming recovery showed just how strong Honey really is. She has adapted amazingly to her amputated leg has now healed fully. Honey has also made a best friend in another rescue guinea pig, Nadia, who found her way to QGPR just a few weeks after Honey as a baby suffering from coccidiosis.
Although Honey has since crossed the Rainbow Bridge, her memory lives on in the guinea pigs being rescued, rehabiliated and rehomed in her honour.
On first arrival at the vet, we were told she had 10% chance at keeping her hind legs. Through many vet trips, Honey has continued to amaze everyone around her, including her vet. Honey successfully undertook two operations - one which saved her right leg and another to amputate her left leg. That wasn't the end for poor five month old Honey though - she went on to undergo dental surgery, further X-rays and ultrasounds. Her speedy and overwhelming recovery showed just how strong Honey really is. She has adapted amazingly to her amputated leg has now healed fully. Honey has also made a best friend in another rescue guinea pig, Nadia, who found her way to QGPR just a few weeks after Honey as a baby suffering from coccidiosis.
Although Honey has since crossed the Rainbow Bridge, her memory lives on in the guinea pigs being rescued, rehabiliated and rehomed in her honour.
