Our origin · 2024
It started with Marble.
In 2024, at just three years old, our much-loved Dachshund Marble was diagnosed with IVDD. We'd first noticed her dragging her back legs and losing her balance — and almost overnight we were learning words like "disc extrusion" and "crate rest".
2024
The search for better support.
We couldn't find the right help, so we kept looking. Late nights reading studies, forums and vet guidance taught us one thing: good products existed, but finding the right ones was far too hard.
2025
Learning, testing and helping.
We tested products, read everything we could and found what genuinely helped. With patience and a lot of careful monitoring, Marble's better days started to outnumber her bad ones — and we began sharing what we'd learned with other dog owners.
2025
Poorly Pet was born.
At the end of 2025, Joe and Lily founded Poorly Pet from home in Sandbach, Cheshire — one trusted place for vet-informed guidance, an AI Symptom Scanner and carefully curated products for recovery, comfort and everyday wellbeing. Built for Marble, here for every dog.