The Central Coast

Central Coast Animal

The Central Coast offers plenty of practical ways to enjoy life with animals, whether you are teaching a young dog, arranging reliable care for a cat, building an aquarium, keeping poultry or stock, or developing your skills with horses. Local services range from everyday veterinary appointments and grooming to mobile farm-animal care, training clubs, rural supplies and equine agistment. Wildlife rescue and companion-animal rehoming also form an important part of the region’s animal community.

Here are useful local starting points for owners, carers, riders, livestock keepers and animal enthusiasts. Each service has its own arrangements, so the details below highlight the published offering and the most direct contact available.

🩺 Veterinary care and emergency services

Central Coast Veterinary Centre

Central Coast Veterinary Centre provides companion-animal veterinary care from locations at North Wyong and Wyoming. Its Wyong location also publishes cat boarding, with F3 vaccination required. The two listed veterinary locations are useful for routine pet care across the northern and central parts of the Coast.

North Wyong: 166 Pacific Highway, North Wyong NSW 2259. ☎ 02 4353 0210 (North Wyong veterinary centre). The Wyoming centre can be reached on ☎ 02 4329 5553.

Gosford Veterinary Hospital

Gosford Veterinary Hospital is a small-animal veterinary hospital in East Gosford, offering appointment-based consultations and veterinary care for small animals. Its main number also publishes an after-hours emergency contact, making it a practical number to keep available when a pet needs advice outside ordinary appointment arrangements.

23 York St, East Gosford NSW 2250. ☎ 02 4321 0990 (appointments and after-hours emergencies).

SASH Central Coast

SASH Central Coast is a specialist and 24-hour emergency veterinary hospital for pets in Tuggerah. Published services include advanced diagnostics, surgery, internal medicine, oncology, dermatology and rehabilitation. Emergency walk-ins are accepted at any time, while specialist consultations have separate access arrangements.

2 Bounty Close, Tuggerah NSW 2259. ☎ 02 4311 1311 (24-hour emergency and hospital enquiries).

Animal Referral Hospital Gosford

Animal Referral Hospital Gosford provides all-hours emergency and critical care for the Central Coast and supports referring veterinarians. It does not provide routine services such as vaccinations, dental care or microchipping. A pet ambulance service is also published, which may be relevant when transport is difficult during an emergency.

Gosford, NSW. ☎ 02 4323 3886 (24-hour emergency and referral enquiries).

Vet on the Road

Vet on the Road brings veterinary consultations to homes across Gosford, Wyong, Terrigal, Woy Woy, Tuggerah and surrounding suburbs. Its published scope includes pet and equine services, care for cattle, goats, sheep and alpacas, and home euthanasia. Farm-animal patients must be caught before the visit.

Central Coast, NSW. ☎ 0490 877 553 (mobile veterinary appointments).

🐕 Dog care, grooming and training

Janarlee Lodge

Janarlee Lodge in Kangy Angy combines dog boarding with daycare, grooming, pet minding, obedience training and show training. This gives owners several forms of care and activity through one dog-focused facility, from short-term stays to structured work on manners or the skills needed in the show ring. New customers are asked to contact the lodge before making an online booking.

2 Dalgety Road (formerly Old Maitland Rd), Kangy Angy NSW 2258. ☎ 0439 621 518 (bookings and enquiries).

Kangy Cat Cottage

Kangy Cat Cottage is a cat-only boarding provider with secure, climate-controlled accommodation for cats of all ages. Its dedicated feline setting gives cat owners a separate boarding choice from dog kennels, particularly when a cat needs accommodation arranged around an absence from home.

1 Dalgety Road, Kangy Angy NSW 2258. ☎ 0449 255 461 (cat boarding enquiries).

A Dog Society

A Dog Society in St Huberts Island offers full dog grooms and wash-and-dry sessions. Published inclusions vary by service and can include coat care, nail clipping and ear cleaning. It is a useful grooming contact for owners looking for either a more complete groom or a simpler wash-and-dry appointment.

88 Helmsman Blvd, St Huberts Island NSW 2257. ☎ 02 9052 4993 (grooming bookings and enquiries).

FurBaby Pet Care

FurBaby Pet Care is a Charmhaven dog-grooming salon that describes its service as a sustainable pet salon. Alongside grooming, it publishes playtime and pet pampering, giving local dog owners a choice that combines coat care with additional salon-based attention.

Shop 4, 213-215 Pacific Highway, Charmhaven NSW 2263.

Central Coast Dog Obedience Training Club

Central Coast Dog Obedience Training Club runs an eight-week basic course for people-friendly, dog-friendly dogs aged four months to three years. For teams seeking ongoing challenges, the club also publishes competition training in obedience, rally and agility at Patrick Croke Oval, Kincumber.

Kincumber, NSW. ☎ 0406 231 203 (training enquiries).

DogEd Daycare & Training

DogEd Daycare & Training in Gosford brings together daycare, positive-reinforcement training and puppy preschool. It also publishes boarding, dog walking, pet sitting, wash-and-dry services and dog taxi options, so owners can arrange both regular care and practical help with transport or time away.

Gosford, NSW. ☎ 0408 810 526 (dog-care and training enquiries).

Animal Behaviour NSW

Animal Behaviour NSW offers in-home pet training and behaviour consultations across the Central Coast and surrounding areas. Its published services also include boarding, daycare, pet sitting and doggy boot camp. The home-based pet-sitting service is limited to social small-to-medium breeds and dogs up to 15 kg, with vaccination and parasite-treatment requirements.

Central Coast, NSW. ☎ 0414 861 650 (training, behaviour and boarding enquiries).

🛍️ Feed, rural supplies and specialist pets

Coastal Rural Traders

Coastal Rural Traders in Ourimbah supplies horse feed, stockfeed, poultry products, hay, animal-health products, fencing and farm supplies. Its range suits a mixture of companion, farm and equine needs, while published local delivery is available for eligible online orders. It serves the Central Coast region.

8-10 Ourimbah St, Ourimbah NSW 2258. ☎ 02 4362 1301 (store enquiries).

McGrath Stockfeeds

McGrath Stockfeeds publishes feed ranges for livestock, birds, poultry, horses, cattle, goats and sheep, pigs, dogs, cats and small animals. Poultry keepers can find layer, pullet, duck and gamebird feeds among the listed products, while the broader range supports households and properties caring for several types of animal.

Central Coast, NSW. ☎ 02 4355 1660 or 0418 721 932 (stockfeed enquiries).

Fantasea Aquariums

Fantasea Aquariums in West Gosford caters for freshwater, marine, reptile and pond interests. Its services include custom aquariums and ponds, aquarium and pond maintenance, tank delivery and aquarium relocation, as well as salt-water delivery. That combination supports both new setups and the practical work of maintaining or moving an established system.

2/2 Carnarvon Rd, West Gosford NSW 2250. ☎ 02 4321 0911 (store and service enquiries).

🐎 Horse agistment, riding and management

The Ridge Equestrian

The Ridge Equestrian at Peats Ridge offers group and individual paddocks, a sand dressage arena, grass jumping arena, wash bay, tack room, rug and feed storage, and float storage. Full-care agistment includes feeding, rugging and twice-daily checks. Onsite instruction through BJW Equine is available for riders using their own horses.

1083 Peats Ridge Rd, Peats Ridge NSW 2250. ☎ 0438 695 600 (agistment enquiries).

Sandusky Lodge

Sandusky Lodge is a Peats Ridge horse agistment and training centre offering part-board and full-board agistment. Its published facilities and training focus are suited to everyday riding, structured training and competition goals, giving horse owners a choice between different levels of boarding support and a more purposeful training pathway.

Peats Ridge, NSW.

Sherwood Park

Sherwood Park provides equine agistment from paddock-only through to full-care boarding, including feeding, stabling and rugging. It particularly caters for spelling and retired horses, brood mares, foaling mares and weanlings. Published facilities and activities include dressage-arena access, coaching, riding lessons on clients’ horses or ponies, and horse-management clinics.

Central Coast, NSW.

🤝 Animal welfare and wildlife support

SoCares Central Coast Animal Shelters

SoCares Central Coast Animal Shelters operates the Charmhaven and Erina animal-care shelters for Central Coast Council. The shelters manage impound operations and adoption for unclaimed stray dogs and cats, and the organisation is an approved rehoming organisation. People considering adoption can use the published shelter contacts to learn about the current process.

Charmhaven Animal Care Shelter: 2 Depot Road, Charmhaven NSW 2263. ☎ 02 4350 3184. Erina Animal Care Shelter: ☎ 02 4304 4350.

Wildlife A.R.C.

Wildlife A.R.C. provides wildlife rescue and rehabilitation support across the Central Coast. Its 24-hour emergency line is for sick, orphaned or injured native animals; the organisation provides immediate advice and arranges assessment, veterinary care or transfer to an appropriate wildlife foster carer. This is the practical contact to use when a native animal needs urgent assistance.

Central Coast, NSW. ☎ 02 4325 0666 (24-hour wildlife emergency line).

RSPCA NSW Behaviour and Rehabilitation Centre – Central Coast

The RSPCA NSW Behaviour and Rehabilitation Centre at Somersby focuses on rehabilitating dogs with significant behavioural needs, including dogs recovering from fearfulness, cruelty or neglect. Adoption is available through the centre’s published process, giving suitable adopters a way to learn about dogs whose needs require thoughtful ongoing support.

Somersby, NSW.

Across the Central Coast, animal interests can grow from everyday routines into enjoyable skills and connections: a dog-training course, a carefully planned aquarium, a well-supported horse, or the satisfaction of caring for poultry and livestock. Emergency and welfare contacts are available too, bringing a practical layer of support to the pleasure of keeping animals.

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

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