Editorial standards

Pets Please publishes practical journalism, not clinic protocols. These rules apply to staff guides and to guest articles.

Australian English and Australian facts

We write organise, colour, desex, vet, council and paddock. Heat advice assumes Australian summers. Parasite advice assumes paralysis ticks and heartworm are not theoretical. Where the law differs by state, we say so rather than pretending one national rule exists.

Sources

Prefer primary public sources: state agriculture departments, local councils, the RSPCA Knowledgebase, Australian Veterinary Association commentary, and teaching hospitals. We do not scrape competitor listicles. We do not invent statistics.

Veterinary boundary

Guides may explain prevention, spotting trouble, and questions to take to a vet. They must not diagnose, dose, or tell a reader to skip professional care. Emergency signs get a plain instruction to go now.

Animals for sale

We do not host classifieds in this relaunch. We do not rank breeders. We explain how to recognise a puppy farm, how rescue adoption works, and what questions to ask. We will not launder a sales listing as a feature.

Guest posts and sponsored links

Guest articles are edited to the same standard as staff work. Outbound commercial, affiliate or paid links are marked rel="sponsored". See write for us for the pitch process.

Corrections

If a guide is wrong, email us via contact. We correct the article, update the timestamp, and leave a note when the change is substantial.

Images

Photographs are Creative Commons or public domain, stored on this site, and credited on the article and on image credits.