Toowoomba

Toowoomba Animal

Toowoomba’s animal community offers plenty of practical ways to enjoy life with pets, horses, birds and livestock. You can build a dog’s skills through club lessons or in-home training, arrange thoughtful boarding for cats and other pets, explore birdwatching with local enthusiasts, or learn more about horses through riding and equestrian events. Feed merchants and specialist pet shops add useful support, from hay and poultry feed to aquarium equipment, while local welfare and conservation groups provide clear pathways for adoption, animal care and wildlife interest.

🐾 Veterinary care and animal welfare

Toowoomba Vet Surgery

This companion-animal practice offers consultations, preventative care, surgery, radiology and consulting rooms. Immediate attention is available for emergencies during standard hours; phone before travelling. Its published after-hours information directs clients to an emergency-vet page.

191 Hume Street (Cnr Gore St), Toowoomba QLD. ☎ (07) 4632 8333

Greencross Vets Chandlers

This purpose-built pet hospital provides routine desexing, soft-tissue and dental surgery, diagnostic and laboratory equipment, nurse consultations and cat grooming. The clinic also provides veterinary care for injured wildlife. After-hours callers are directed to UQ VETS Small Animal Hospital.

224 Alderley Street, Toowoomba QLD 4350. ☎ 07 4636 2233 clinic contact; 5460 1788 for the after-hours UQ VETS Small Animal Hospital contact.

RSPCA Toowoomba

The Wellcamp animal care centre supports pet adoption, appointment-based surrender applications, pet boarding and animal-welfare reporting. Adoption applications are made online. For seriously injured or trapped animals, use the 1300 ANIMAL hotline rather than attending with an animal without an arranged pathway.

36 Airport Drive, Wellcamp QLD 4350. ☎ 07 4634 1304; 1300 264 625 for animals in distress.

🐕 Pet boarding and training

Bert-E-D's Boarding and Day Care Kennels

Located in Glenvale, this service offers separate boarding kennel and day-care options for pets. The official site provides a direct booking pathway, making it useful for arranging planned care when owners are away or need structured daytime supervision.

160 Drayton Wellcamp Rd Service Rd, Glenvale QLD, Australia. ☎ (07) 4637 2613

Jovelles Cat Motel

This Cranley facility is designed specifically for cats. Each cat has a private self-contained unit with raised shelving, while a secure enclosed exercise yard is available for cats that use outdoor time. Individual care needs can be discussed when making a booking.

262 Hermitage Rd, Cranley QLD 4350. ☎ 0417 370 045

Paradise Pet Retreat

Serving Toowoomba and the Darling Downs, Paradise Pet Retreat boards dogs, cats, birds, chickens and small rodents. It also offers doggy day care and drop-off dog-training programs. Bookings are essential. The current site marks the grooming parlour as temporarily closed, so grooming is not included here as an available service.

Toowoomba and Darling Downs, QLD. Bookings are essential.

Toowoomba Dog Obedience Club Inc

Based at Norman Park, this club offers dog lessons and training for people wanting to develop everyday obedience skills in a group setting. Its public contact page provides a direct route for bookings and enquiries.

Norman Park, Cnr Hursley Rd/Tor St, Toowoomba QLD 4350. ☎ 0435 675 990 for bookings and enquiries, Monday to Friday 9am–5pm.

Treat. Play. Love.

This mobile training service works with dogs, cats and parrots through in-home and video consultations across Toowoomba, Highfields and surrounding suburbs. It also runs small-group puppy classes in Highfields and educational seminars covering subjects such as canine body language and parrot behaviour and training.

Highfields, Toowoomba and surrounding suburbs, QLD. In-home and video consultations are available across the stated service area.

🛍️ Pet, bird and livestock supplies

Petstock Toowoomba

The Toowoomba store combines everyday pet supplies with locally listed services. Its branch page confirms puppy school, grooming, a DIY wash, pet ID tags and aquarium water testing, giving dog and aquarium keepers practical tasks to arrange alongside their regular shopping.

2/222 Anzac Avenue, Toowoomba QLD 4350, Australia. ☎ 07 4614 0066

Aquabird Pet Centre

This specialist shop caters for bird, fish and reptile keepers, with equipment, food and setup products promoted for those animal groups. It is a useful local starting point for preparing an aquarium, maintaining a bird collection or finding supplies for reptile care.

Bernoth Centre, 2B, 663 Ruthven St, Toowoomba. ☎ 07 4638 0220

Queensland Produce Distributors

This drive-through produce retailer and feed manufacturer supplies horse, livestock and poultry feeds, as well as stockfeed, grain, chaff and hay. Its retail shop also carries non-prescription veterinary products, including a range for performance horses, making it relevant to both property keepers and equine owners.

222 McDougall Street, Toowoomba QLD 4350. ☎ (07) 4633 1011

PBA Feeds

PBA Feeds manufactures stockfeed supplements, grain, loose licks, protein meals and ruminant pellets. Its Hyfeed range covers equine feed, while the published range also includes poultry feed. Bagged and bulk products are available, alongside on-farm nutritional support for livestock keepers.

Toowoomba, QLD.

🐎 Riding and equestrian activities

Splendacrest Stables

At Preston, Splendacrest Stables offers riding lessons and equine-assisted learning programs. Its equine activities also include trail rides, while the practical instruction and learning programs provide a pathway for people developing riding skills or taking part in horse-focused learning.

2 Geitz Rd, Preston QLD 4352, Australia. ☎ +61 438 309 458 Jay; general enquiries.

RM Equestrian Centre

This Hodgson Vale equestrian club and event venue hosts competitive and social activities including cross-country, dressage, polocrosse and showjumping. Clinics are run by Equestrian Australia-accredited coaches, with membership and fees handled through Nominate, so riders can follow the centre’s published participation pathway.

248 Hodgson Vale Road, Hodgson Vale QLD 4352. ☎ 0412 790 417

🦜 Birds and local conservation

Toowoomba Bird Observers Club

This club welcomes people of all ages and experience levels on monthly outings to local and further-afield birding locations. Outing leaders provide guidance, and members are encouraged to use bird-recording tools including eBird and Birdata. It offers a practical way to learn identification while meeting others interested in birds.

Toowoomba region, QLD. Monthly outings are held at local and further-afield birding locations.

Wildlife Queensland Toowoomba Branch

The local branch focuses on wildlife and environmental education. Its quarterly meetings feature guest speakers and are open to the public, while branch participation provides a way for people interested in local conservation to connect with an established wildlife organisation.

Toowoomba region, QLD. Quarterly public meetings are held with guest speakers.

Whether you are refining a dog’s training, planning care for a cat, stocking a rural property, developing riding skills or learning the birds of the region, Toowoomba has several practical ways to take part. The mix of clubs, specialists, retailers, welfare services and conservation groups makes it possible to build animal interests at your own pace.

Local animal businesses, clubs, educators and welfare groups are warmly invited to add or update their listing so more people can discover the services, activities and community connections available around Toowoomba.

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