The Lodge Small Animal Hotel

After spending 26 years in Catering, I decided to devote myself full time to my love of animals and started up The Lodge Small Animal Hotel.

This will compliment my own menagerie of pet animals consisting of; Kune Kune Pigs, Pygmy Goats, Donkeys, Chickens, Ducks, Rabbits, Budgies & Cats. Not to be forgotten are Smokey Joe the Chinchilla and Hetty the Pygmy Hedgehog!

I am aware of how much care, love & attention pets need, and want people to go away on holiday knowing their pets will be looked after as well as if they were in their own home.

Accommodation

There are 3 ‘Bunny Lodges’ which are timber framed fully insulated building, making it snugly & warm in the winter and cool in the summer. We have heaters installed for those really cold periods and fans for the summer months.

Each rabbit (or bonded pair) has its own indoor apartment with access to their own outdoor run area which gives them plenty of space to enable them to explore, binky, sleep & relax.

Each indoor apartment is 1 metre by 1.8 metres , and they have vinyl flooring for ease of cleanliness.

The outdoor runs are 0.9 metres by 3 metres and have concrete floors.

Each indoor apartment/outdoor run are divided off so the bunnies can’t see their neighbour’s and get stressed.

We have an ‘Indoor Guinea Pig’ room which has luxury enclosures for your guinea pig to enjoy their holiday.

The room is heated during winter months. We can cater for larger groups of piggies as several of our pens can open up into one large area.

We also have secure ‘hutch and run combos’ for the outside guinea pigs to spend their holidays.

‘Small Animal Lodge’ is a luxury indoor boarding room. This room caters for small rodents such as Hamsters, Rats and Gerbils.

It also houses Heated Vivariums which enables to look after small reptiles such as Geckos, Bearded Dragons and Tortoises.

We can also cater for Chinchillas, Pygmy Hedgehogs and other exotics. 

For Tortoises we also have outside secure runs for the warmer months and also indoor heated run areas.

‘The Lodge Bird Room’ is a room inside a brick building with a large window which has been created to house a number of birds in their own cages or we do have a few cages available for customer use. Any birds such as African Grey Parrots, Cockatiels, Budgies and other parrots are all able to be cared for.

We can also house Chickens and have an Omlet ‘Eglu’ Chicken Pen and large secure run and have plenty of experience in looking after them as we have kept chickens & ducks for a number of years.

Guest Security

For your peace of mind sheds and runs are locked at night, and the property is secure behind two sets of electric gates a 100 metres from the road. 24 Hour CCTV monitors the entire garden and exterior of property.