Bertie the smiley Shih Tzu is a gorgeous 6-year-old who requires a "special needs" home where he will seldom be alone.

Due to a change in family circumstances, he is currently on his own for 10 hours a day, five days a week and most of the weekend. It’s a heart-breaking situation because Bertie loves being around people and has a non-aggressive, affectionate nature towards humans and other dogs. He enjoys walks on the beach and deserves undivided attention and care.

Bertie is at his happiest when he’s with his loved ones and is a playful, loving and caring little soul, who would suit an individual, couple or family with gentle older children.

This 9kg, neutered and micro-chipped ball of fluff will make you the centre of his world once a strong bond has been formed.

Due to Bertie's nervous tendencies, he will occasionally release fluid from his anal glands when strangers enter the home. To ease this anxiety, he currently takes a homeopathic remedy. He also suffers from back pain from time to time and has a daily Rimadyl to keep him comfortable. If you are able to cope with these special needs and would like to give him a beautiful life, please send your application to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

As the photos explain, sibling kittens Millie and Teddy must be adopted together.

They and 13 other cats and kittens were in a terrible state living in the dirt under a boarding house - weak and anaemic from flea infestations, starving, and another kitten had a broken leg from a dog attack.

Millie and Teddy are now about 16-weeks-old, vaccinated, micro-chipped, neutered and in perfect health.

They are gorgeous kittens, fully socialised, lovingly bonded, and very playful.

If you live in a traffic safe area and would like to offer a wonderful home to Millie and Teddy, please send your application to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Thank you.

Between us, we have the ability to create a happy ending before winter. :) As the bitter weather approaches our hearts ache to GET VERNIE HOME!

We quickly need your help to get this beautiful Mastiff cross out of the kennels and into the loving home that awaits him. He came under our umbrella as a puppy who had been hit by a car. That was in September 2015. He is now two years old and has spent his entire life at boarding kennels. Although the staff and our dog walking volunteers do our best to give him cuddles, training and stimulation, he is so deserving of a domestic life in a loving family home.

Due to his intimidating size and brindle colouring, potential adoptees have passed by this loving dog. Sadly, there was no shortage of applications to keep him in barren commercial yards as a lonely night-time watchdog, or to bolster a macho image. Then finally it happened… a gentle couple spotted him at one of our PETstock Adoption Days and it was love at first sight for all three of them.

The couple flew through our interview processes and ticked all the boxes – except one. Their fences and gates are not suitable for a big boy like Vernie and they can’t immediately afford the construction costs to meet our standards. They’ve taken out a bank loan and have started working on one fence-line. We are determined to raise the $7,500 needed to secure the rest of the property before winter.

That’s where you come in. Please donate to get Vernie out of his concrete kennel before the bitter winter weather strikes… and onto the cosy bed that awaits him in the bedroom of his future caregivers. With your help we will be able to buy the building materials, muster a working bee, secure the gates & fencing and GET VERNIE HOME!

Vernie’s future family has set up a payment plan to reimburse Animal Re-homing month by month, so your kind donations will help other animals in need in the future.

Vernie's original ad: click here

To help GET VERNIE HOME, please click on the image below. Many thanks.

This is one of the reasons we ask people to keep a rescue dog's name when they adopt one.

Life has been tough enough for them already without losing the only thing that still belongs to them - their name.