Pawbility is a small editorial team of pet owners, hobbyist breeders, and a working vet nurse who got tired of pet advice that read like it was bolted together from forum posts. We started this site in 2023 because the questions we kept Googling ourselves — “can guinea pigs eat corn?”, “is my rabbit drinking enough?”, “why is my rat suddenly biting?” — kept landing us on pages where nobody seemed to actually own the animal.
So we write the version we wanted. Every post here is signed by a real member of our team. We test what we recommend, we keep notes when something goes wrong, and we update the page rather than pretend we got it right the first time. If you spot something we’ve fudged or gotten out-of-date, write to us — we’d rather fix it than be polite about it.
Who we are
Sienna Walsh — head writer, dog behaviour
Sienna grew up in a household that ran on rescue staffies and one truly opinionated border collie. She’s the person on the team most likely to argue (correctly) that “your dog isn’t stubborn, your cue is rubbish.” Most of the dog training, breed-profile and behaviour pieces on the site are hers or co-written with her.
Lachlan “Lach” Ortega — small pets specialist
Lach has kept guinea pigs since he was nine and rats since he was nineteen. He currently lives with three guinea pigs (Pickle, Bean and Mrs. Hudson) and four rats, and he writes the bulk of our small-pet care, diet and housing content. If a post tells you something specific about cage size, hide count or how to introduce a new piggy, that came from his living room floor.
Priya Nair — vet nurse, health and nutrition
Priya is a qualified veterinary nurse who’s worked in small-animal clinics for nine years. She reviews everything on the site that touches health, diet, safe foods, toxic foods, weight, parasites and emergency signs. When you see a “what to do if your pet ate X” page, Priya’s the reason it doesn’t read like a hot take.
Jules Whitford — animal photographer
Most of the photographs on the site that aren’t borrowed are Jules’s. They split time between fostering for a Sydney rescue group and shooting for us, which is how we end up with images that show the animals being normal instead of catalogue-perfect.
How we write
A few standards we hold ourselves to, since the internet gives nobody else a reason to:
- One animal at a time. Generic “small mammal” advice is how guinea pigs end up eating things they shouldn’t. Each species gets its own page.
- Show the working. When a food is unsafe or a behaviour is a red flag, we say why, not just that it is.
- Update, don’t repost. If we get something wrong or new evidence shows up, we edit the original page and note what changed. That’s why some of our older posts have a “last updated” date that’s newer than the publish date.
- If we’re guessing, we say so. “Probably fine in small amounts” and “we don’t know yet” are real answers and we use them.
Talk to us
Found a mistake, want a post on a topic we haven’t covered, or just want to send us a photo of your rabbit? Head to our contact page — the form goes straight to the editorial inbox, not a black hole.