SASH Stories

Our Poppie only has one eye, she is full of life! She loves walks, TV-time, car rides, naps in the sun, treats but most of all her family. One morning in May 2025, Poppie came critically ill overnight, she was vomiting frequently, with blood appearing in her bile and appeared severely dehydrated. Poppie was diagnosed…

Boo’s SASH Story- A very small dog with very poor food choices. Hi. My name is Boo. I am a 4 kg, 15-month-old Cavoodle and this is my SASH story. I started my life journey at SASH Sunshine Coast by emergency caesarean on 13 October 2024, the smallest of a litter of four. I live…

Charlie came to me in March 2020, I wasn’t looking for another cat but when I saw his rescue profile on Facebook, my heart just knew this was my cat and I had to get him before he was transported to another foster home. I would be his seventh home after many foster homes and…

Bruce’s Fight, and the Team Who Gave Me My Christmas Miracle My three-year-old Rottweiler, Bruce, has always been my gentle giant, strong, loving, and full of life. So when he suddenly became unwell, I never imagined how close I would come to losing him. Bruce was first seen at Harbour City Vet in Gladstone, where…

Jazper wasn’t just my cat. He was my soul mate. This is a love letter to him and the staff of SASH Adelaide. For most of his life, Jaz lived with inflammatory bowel disease, and for more than four and a half years he managed diabetes. Along the way came an irregular heartbeat, then cancer,…

A personal story about an unbreakable bond and the care that supported it.This story is a personal reflection on love, friendship, and the role emergency and specialist care can play during life’s most vulnerable moments. While not every journey has the ending we wish for, compassionate care, expertise, and support make a profound difference for…

Without the excellent care, knowledge, skills and resources available at SASH, I would not still have my Alba bird with me and my family! Alba became very ill, very suddenly, after 6 years of no problems other than sticky fluffs not getting off his face after intense preening sessions, and a few scares from bigger,…

Max had been acting really funny. Walking around and couldn’t settle. He wanted to be outside which was quite unusual for him as once it was night time he would lie on his bed and sleep all night. He was pacing around and we decided there was something not quite right about him. He was…

Holly’s Story Holly is our little pug and the absolute centre of our world. She’s always been full of personality, stubborn in the best way, and completely obsessed with cuddles and snacks. Mid 2025 we started noticing that something wasn’t right. Her back legs were getting weak, she was stumbling, and sometimes she just couldn’t…

My husband and I often joke it’s Charlie’s personal mission to see every specialist department at SASH as if it were medical bingo. Over the years, they’ve helped him through numerous misadventures including a throat abscess (chewing on a stick), scratched cornea (grooming session gone wrong) and needing his stomach pumped (scavenging trail mix). In…

This is Ellie!! Ellie was diagnosed with a Peritoneopericardial Diaphragmatic Hernia (PPDH). It’s a long named condition we had never even heard of until it was unexpectedly in front of us!! Ellie’s story with SASH began in late April when we rushed her to the SASH Gold Coast Emergency Hospital. She had been vomiting continuously…

Our story begins before the star of it arrives, with a black cat called Bubbles. A gentle and quiet boy who enjoyed playing chase and spent most of his days by the window waiting for his owners to return. He was the reigning champion and was eager to defend his title. The humans were no…

On Boxing Day morning, our ferret Egg became suddenly and seriously unwell and began vomiting. We were incredibly worried. When we contacted our usual exotic vet, they unfortunately didn’t have any vets available, so we called SASH —and from that very first phone call, we knew Egg was in the right hands. They immediately told…

Our girl Knives is a 13 year old sassy lady. She’s usually a big lover of her food and incredibly social. My husband and I have always joked about her willingness to go with anyone who gives her attention. When she stopped eating and drinking, and started hiding under the bed, we knew something was…

Kenny (smooth haired Dachshund,6 month old) came into SASH Adelaide earlier in February 2025 for extensive surgeries after being hit by a car followed by being stepped on by a horse at a later date. Unfortunately for Kenny, he suffered immensely following a fracture to his vertabrae, femur, pelvis and elbow. On both seperate occasions,…

The Night I Nearly Lost Blacky Blacky has always been fearless, but nothing prepared me for the moment I found her fighting for her life in the early hours of the morning. Only hours earlier she had dragged a brown snake into the house and sparred with it until WIRES removed it. She seemed perfectly…

I’ve lost count how many times we have visited SASH over the years but this year was the most! A very tough year for us topped off by finding Ollie’s original rescue papers – he had his first vaccinations in 2006 – making him much older than I thought. Yep 19 years old! He had…

Bentley was one of the first patients at the new Northern Beaches hospital. He went in for a surgical consult for a ruptured ACL. Poor thing couldn’t walk but was happy to sit for photo a op! He is always happy to have a photo! After his consult with Dr Andrew Marchevsky, he was booked…