01/09/2026
🩷PALLIATIVE HOME NEEDED FOR FRECKLES🩷
Usually, this is where I’d use humour.
I’d make some inappropriate joke, use some abstract personificationand always a splash of self deprecation to soften what is otherwise a really bloody sad post.
But I just can’t with this one.
Freckles needs to move into her final home to begin her final journey.
DO NOT STOP READING AND SKIP TO THE COMMENTS TO APPLY.
I know there will be 100 beautiful people immediately racing to type “ME”... please don't.
Read this entire post. Then read it again.
Because we know there will be people willing to take Freckles out of pure love, sympathy and impulse. That is not what we are looking for.
Freckles is approximately 14 years old. She has arrived with us in heartbreaking condition and right now, we don't know how much time she has.
It could be days.
It could be weeks.
It could be months.
Our job is not to put a timeline on her life.
Our job is to make whatever remains of it comfortable, safe and hers. And because of that, her home requirements are going to be extremely strict.
NO OTHER PETS.
We haven't tested Freckles with dogs or cats, and frankly, we're not interested in doing so.
This isn't about compliance, its about comfort.
She has spent enough of her life surviving.
She doesn't need to wonder whether another dog is approaching her food. She doesn't need to feel defensive. She doesn't need to navigate another animal's boundaries, energy or curiosity.
Even a perfectly lovely cat can simply be too much. We want Freckles to be able to sleep deeply, eat slowly and exist without ever feeling like she needs to be on guard again.
YOU CANNOT WORK FULL-TIME OUTSIDE THE HOME.
This one is horrible because we know it eliminates a huge number of wonderful people. We are NOT punishing you because you have to work. Work is normal. Its simply means your current position isnt able to accommodate her needs.
But it is non-negotiable.
Freckles currently needs small meals every 3 hours. Not “I can pop home on my lunch break.”
Not “My neighbour could probably check on her.” Not “She'd only be alone for six hours.”
You either don't work, work from home, or have circumstances that genuinely mean you are home and available to provide the level of care she needs. We are not going to compromise on this because somebody really, really loves her.
NO YOUNG CHILDREN.
Again, this isn't a behavioural assessment of Freckles. It's about her comfort.
Little kids are beautifully loud, unpredictable, energetic creatures who occasionally appear to have been manufactured without an OFF button.
Freckles needs the opposite.
Quiet.
Predictability.
Soft beds.
Slow mornings.
Someone nearby.
Peace.
YOU MUST HAVE RELIABLE TRANSPORT.
Freckles will need veterinary appointments and ongoing monitoring. If she remains strong enough, we'd also love for her to receive supportive therapies such as massage to help her tired little body feel as comfortable as possible.
And now for the hardest requirement.
We need someone who understands that palliative care does not mean taking her home to euthanise her because watching an old dog decline becomes emotionally difficult.
We are not looking for someone to give Freckles a beautiful weekend and then decide they "can't watch her suffer." We are here to rehabilitate what can be rehabilitated.
To treat what can be treated.
To manage what can be managed.
To feed her.
Warm her.
Comfort her.
Let her sleep.
Let her potter.
Let her be ridiculously spoiled.
And when Freckles tells us she has had enough, we will listen.
But that decision will be made around her quality of life, NOT your emotional limitations around witnessing ageing, disability or decline.
She has had so many choices taken away from her already. We will not take that one away prematurely too.
So, are we being ridiculously strict?
Yep.
Are these requirements probably going to eliminate 97% of the people reading this?
Yep.
And we're completely okay with that.
Yep * but sorry *
This isn't a competition about who can love Freckles the most. Hundreds of you already love her. Love alone cannot provide rehabilitation. Love cannot rearrange a full-time work schedule. Love cannot create a quiet home. Love cannot drive her to appointments.
Love cannot guarantee three-hourly feeds.
Freckles needs love AND the correct environment AND the practical capacity to care for her. This is not a pick me post.
Please don't apply because seeing her made you cry and you desperately want to save her.
We understand that feeling.
God, do we understand it.
Apply because you've read every requirement above, looked realistically at your home, your work, your finances, your lifestyle and your emotional capacity and realised:
I can actually give her exactly what she needs.
Not for the Instagram photos.
Not to be the person who "saved Freckles."
Not because you need her story to have a happy ending.
Just because an old lady who has already endured far too much deserves somewhere quiet to put her tired little body down and finally realise...nothing bad is coming.
If that's your home, we want to hear from you.
For everyone else who loves her but cannot meet these requirements, please help us find the tiny percentage of people who can.
Share her.
Somewhere out there is a quiet house, a warm bed and a human with nowhere more important to be.
That's who we're looking for. 🤍
Email [email protected]
Must be Gold coast or brisbane
