For pets who need a little more
Smart tools for veterinary teams. Trusted guidance for pet carers. So every pet is understood and gets the care they deserve.
For Veterinary teams
Ellakin is designed as a guided workflow. We help you capture better histories before the consult, surface what matters, and deliver consistent next steps.What this includes:
pre-visit workflows tailored for the visit (senior care, behaviour and more)
micro-education embedded throughout the intake (so clients understand what you’re asking and why)
clinic-branded outputs your team can use immediately: take-home summaries for clients, and follow-through between visits with clear home-care guidance and optional check-ins
For pet carers
Ellakin is being built as a vet-led education and support hub for people caring for dogs and cats who need a bit more.If you're navigating a new diagnosis, managing a long-term condition, or simply staying ahead of the changes that come with age, you'll find clear, practical guidance. Our tools and resources will help you notice what's different, understand what might be going on, and know what to do next.This is what we are building for pet carers:Expert-led webinars
We're building a webinar library where you'll hear directly from veterinarians and specialists on the topics that matter most, so you can keep learning in a way that fits your life.Online programs
Our Healthy Ageing Program for Dogs is coming soon, with a Healthy Ageing Program for Cats to follow. Practical, vet-informed, and designed to help you get ahead of the changes that come with age.Our goal is to make sure you always have somewhere to turn, with the right information, at the right time.Start here: is this just old age?A free, vet-written guide to the senior-dog changes that are easy to miss, and what they might be telling you.
About Ellakin
For pets who need a little more and the people who love them.
Ellakin exists for the pets whose care doesn't fit neatly into a twenty-minute consult. The senior dog who can't make the jump into the car anymore, the cat whose anxiety has started to shape the whole household's day, or the pet nearing the end of a long, well-loved life. These pets need more time, more nuance, and more continuity of care than a standard appointment allows. Their families need somewhere to turn between visits: for information they can trust, support that meets them where they are, and a sense that someone understands what they're navigating.
Ellakin is built to make that kind of care possible for the families living it, inside the clinics they already know and trust.Founded by a vet, for the work vets are already trying to do.
llakin was founded by Dr Vicki Brown, a small animal vet based in Canberra. After years of working with families through behavioural complexity, chronic illness and end-of-life care, Vicki kept running into the same gap. Clinics wanted to give these pets and their people more, and families needed somewhere to turn between visits, but the time, tools, and structured resources to make that happen rarely existed.
Ellakin is the platform she wished existed. For pet carers, it's a growing hub of vet-led education and practical tools, so you can make sense of what you're seeing and feel more confident about what comes next. For veterinary teams, it's a set of clinically grounded forms, programs, and resources that fit into the clinic's existing workflow, so they can deliver the kind of careful, unhurried care they want to give and these pets deserve.
Comfort care resources
This is a current list of the support available for dogs and cats nearing the end of life, and their people. If you have arrived here from the Healthy Ageing Program, this is the up-to-date version.In-home palliative and end-of-life vets
There is a growing number of vets who work exclusively in comfort care. They will come to your home to provide palliative support and, when the time comes, a planned and gentle goodbye in familiar surroundings. Services now operate in most capital cities and many regional areas. Your own vet is the best place to start looking. They will know who works locally and who they trust. If you would rather search yourself, look up "in-home palliative vet" or "home pet euthanasia" plus your suburb to find what is available near you.Pet loss support
Grief over the loss of a pet is real, and support exists for it. The Pet Loss Support Line, run by Pets and People, is available on 1300 431 450. The call is free; counselling fees apply. Many counsellors also work specifically with pet loss, and your vet clinic may be able to recommend someone local.If you know of a service that should be listed here, or you have found this list out of date, please let us know.Quality of life tools you can use at home
Structured tools turn an impossible question into a series of small, answerable ones. Quality of life assessments are not a verdict or a substitute for your vet. They are something to bring to your next visit: a way to start the conversation, and to help you and your vet see how your pet is really doing.The best known is the HHHHHMM scale, developed by veterinary oncologist Dr Alice Villalobos.It scores seven areas, including pain, appetite, hydration, hygiene, happiness, mobility, and whether the good days still outnumber the bad. Scored regularly over weeks, it shows you a trend rather than a snapshot, which is usually what you actually need.
The Ohio State University's veterinary teaching hospital also publishes a gentle written guide to assessing quality of life and making end-of-life decisions. It was written by one of their veterinary social workers. It is written for the moment when you are starting to wonder whether it is time, and helps you think it through step by step.
