BunnyLuv
Rabbit Resource Center
Rabbit Resource Center
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Where Can A Bunny Get A Home?You've found a stray rabbit. You know a rabbit who's been neglected. You feel you can no longer care for your own rabbit. BunnyLuv receives more telephone and email inquiries about rabbits needing homes than we do any other type of question. We are asked to help about 300 rabbits for every one rabbit are able to take from a shelter and place in a good home. We are sympathetic but limited in how we can help. Based on our years of experienced rescuing and finding new homes for rabbits, we offer the following advice. -We understand you may not be the person responsible for this rabbit being homeless. Nevertheless, you may be the person, by default, who cares the most. You will best secure this rabbit's future if you prepare the rabbit for adoption, advertise, interview callers, and deliver the rabbit yourself to the new home. Information on how to find a home for your rabbit is available. -If you have a stray rabbit in your neighborhood, we urge you to catch the rabbit and either find her a home or take her to a shelter. -Please please please have the rabbit spay/neutered before putting her up for adoption. Otherwise your well intended act may result in future homeless rabbits being born. If those babies grow up and in turn produce unwanted babies, innocent rabbits may die because the one rabbit you helped was not spayed or neutered. -If you take in a stray rabbit, keep in mind that an unspayed female rabbit may be pregnant. It's best to take any stray rabbit to a veterinarian as soon as possible to determine age, gender and health status. If the rabbit is a female three months of age or older, we recommend making a spay appointment with an experienced rabbit veterinarian as soon as possible. -If you are not familiar with rabbit care and diet, learn all you can. You will want the rabbit in good health prior to adoption, and you will want the new caretaker to be educated as well. For answers to care questions, read up on the internet, or email info@bunnyluv.org with your question. -If you don't have time to properly care for and find a permanent home for this rabbit, please take the rabbit to an animal shelter. You may phone any nearby veterinary hospital for the location of your closest shelter. -Please do not "set the rabbit free" at a park. This only seems like a solution, because you won't be there to see the rabbit, hungry, confused and hunted down by predators, die shrieking. By comparison, a gentle death at an animal shelter is kind. And, at the shelter there is the possibility of adoption into a new home. -Report cases of rabbit cruelty, abuse or neglect in Southern California to the SPCA-LA cruelty tip line at 1-800-540-7722. Each and every needy rabbit is special and deserves whatever help you can give. Thank you for your concern.
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BunnyLuv Rabbit Resource Center is
a non-profit (501c3) animal welfare and education group. All donations are
100% tax deductible.
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