QLD Guinea Pig Refuge

QLD Guinea Pig Refuge QLD Guinea Pig Refuge is a not for profit organisation, dedicated to helping mistreated, abused and no longer wanted guinea pigs in need.

We don't have an actual shelter. All our guinea pigs live on foster carer throughout Brisbane. We hire out the local Scout Den on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of every month to hold our Open Days

If you are looking to adopt, you must fill out an adoption form 48 hours before Open Day.

5 seconds after putting them in a clean cage and they’re already “decorating” 💩 🐹❤
22/11/2025

5 seconds after putting them in a clean cage and they’re already “decorating” 💩

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21/11/2025

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They might not be biologically ours, but they’re still our babies! 🩷
20/11/2025

They might not be biologically ours, but they’re still our babies! 🩷

“Wheek! Wheek! Wheek!” 🐹
19/11/2025

“Wheek! Wheek! Wheek!” 🐹

Let’s have a fun-fact-a-thon!Guinea pigs are such interesting little creatures. Let’s learn a little more about them tog...
18/11/2025

Let’s have a fun-fact-a-thon!

Guinea pigs are such interesting little creatures. Let’s learn a little more about them together:

🔴 Piggies sort of “hop” on the spot when they’re overly happy, excited, or even grumpy. It’s called “popcorning” and it’s their way of handling their emotions!

🟣 The oldest recorded Guinea pig was Snowball. He lived in England in 1979 and was exactly 14 years and 10 months old when he passed. (There’s another pig on Facebook who lived to 15 and is currently applying for the Guinness Book of Records)!

🟡 Piggies do tend to sleep with their eyes wide open a lot of the time. It’s thought to be a survival instinct. They do close their eyes to snooze sometimes though!

🟢 Baby piggies aren’t called piglets like you’d think, they’re called pups!

🟤 Despite their name, they originate from South America, not Guinea, and are rodents, not pigs. Weird!

⚫️ A lot of piggies have a bald spot behind their ears. It helps with temperature regulation, plus it’s really cute!

We’re running another raffle! 🎟️ Win an enclosure for your indoor setup, or for supervised grass time. To enter, simply ...
18/11/2025

We’re running another raffle! 🎟️

Win an enclosure for your indoor setup, or for supervised grass time.

To enter, simply purchase a $1 entry into the raffle at our open day on 6th December, or 20th December.

We’ll be drawing the winner at 12:00pm on December 20th, so as long as you grab a ticket before then, you’re in the draw!

*this is a local competition for open day visitors only at this stage.

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He can trust me around other men, I just can’t look at adoptable pigs without supervision 🤷‍♀️
17/11/2025

He can trust me around other men, I just can’t look at adoptable pigs without supervision 🤷‍♀️

Who else is struggling to come to terms with the fact that it’s already Monday? 🙋‍♀️🥱🙋‍♂️
16/11/2025

Who else is struggling to come to terms with the fact that it’s already Monday? 🙋‍♀️🥱🙋‍♂️

Nibbles appreciation post! 🐹 If you were at yesterday’s open day, (or if you’ve visited us before), you might already kn...
15/11/2025

Nibbles appreciation post! 🐹

If you were at yesterday’s open day, (or if you’ve visited us before), you might already know about Nibbles, our resident snuggle pig.

Nibbles is one of our volunteer’s piggies and she comes to open days for one reason only - to give you a snuggle!

Nibbles doesn’t seem to get along with other Guinea pigs, but she LOVES people. Why? Because she thinks she’s human. 🧍‍♀️

She loves coming in, socialising, and having lap time with our open day visitors.

She’s also had quite an impact on our volunteers - as you can see, her biggest fans have even had custom Nibbles aprons and mugs made for themselves!

Have you been lucky enough to give Nibbles a snuggle at one of our open days?

THANK YOU THANK YOU for braving the heat, humidity and potential storms to come see us at open day today!7 Piggies found...
15/11/2025

THANK YOU THANK YOU for braving the heat, humidity and potential storms to come see us at open day today!

7 Piggies found their forever homes today:

🐹 Jellybean, Cameilla & Fleur found their furever family 🐹

🐹 Cali & Paisley found a motherly friend 🐹

🐹 Maurice and Falcon found a desexed boy to keep them company 🐹

📅 Our calendars are selling quick, and we have already sold 2/3 of them after today! If you want one, don’t wait! Head to our website and order now at qldguineapigrefuge.com.au/shop-1

➡️ Our next open day is on 6th December, 10am - 3pm at 12 James Cash Court.

Thank you to everyone who came along to see us today. We wouldn’t be able to do what we do without your support! 💕

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Colouring in contest winner!! ✏️🏆You might remember when we were sharing our colouring in contest winners after our 12th...
15/11/2025

Colouring in contest winner!! ✏️🏆

You might remember when we were sharing our colouring in contest winners after our 12th birthday, we hadn’t been able to contact our 0-5 winner just yet.

Well, today the lovey Frankie came to our open day today to collect her prize, and show off her award winning colouring in skills!

Congratulations Frankie on your prize! 🏆

Hay is officially sold out for the day! We have some pig n’ mix left but it is in limited supply. We still have plenty o...
15/11/2025

Hay is officially sold out for the day!

We have some pig n’ mix left but it is in limited supply.

We still have plenty of pellets and treats for your little one!

Keep an eye on our socials for info on how to order hay for our next open day.

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Albany Creek Scout Den 12 James Cash Court
Albany Creek, QLD
4035

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About Us

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.

Our refuge is Brisbane based; however we have foster carers and volunteers spread across various areas of Queensland.