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Please Don't Give Pets As Gifts!!
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Shelters and rescues are inundated with animals that were given as
gifts to people who didn't really want them and don't know how to take
care of them. They expect this year to be no different, beginning on
the day after Christmas. Please don't give a live animal as a gift -
give a stuffed plush toy instead, or consider making a donation to a
rescue or shelter in someone's name as a gift. Just please don't give
a live animal as a gift - it requires a lifelong commitment to the
pet, and too often they get shortchanged. Thanks!!
Read more
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Easter And Bunnies Don't Mix
In My Cage
by Mary Brandolino
In memory of all the bunnies we couldn't save.
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I remember Easter Sunday
It was colorful and fun
The new life that I'd begun
In my new cage.
I was just a little thing
When they brought me from the store
And they put me on the floor
In my cage.
They would take me out to play
Love and pet me all the time
Then at day's end I would climb
In my cage.
But as days and weeks went by
I saw less of them it seemed
Of their loving touch I dreamed
In my cage.
In the night outside their house
I felt sad and so neglected
Often scared and unprotected
In my cage.
In the dry or rainy weather
Sometimes hotter sometimes colder
I just sat there growing older
In my cage.
The cat and dog raced by me
Playing with each other only
While I sat there feeling lonely
In my cage.
Upon the fresh green grass
Children skipped and laughed all day
I could only watch them play
From my cage.
They used to take me out
And let me scamper in the sun
I no longer get to run
In my cage.
Once a cute and cuddly bunny
Like a little ball of cotton
Now I'm grown up and forgotten
In my cage.
I don't know what went wrong
At the home I did inhabit
I just grew to be a rabbit
In my cage.
But they've brought me to the pound
I was once loved and enjoyed
Now I wait to be destroyed
In my cage.
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About Us
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3 Bunnies Rabbit Rescue, Inc. is an all volunteer not for profit
organization dependent on donations to help us rescue unwanted
domestic rabbits and educate the public on rabbit care. We are a network of
foster homes located in New England and New York.
3 BUNNIES ADOPTS TO INDOOR HOMES ONLY!!
Adoption donations: (to help with spay/neuter and other expenses)
$70 single
$120 pair
Online adoption application
The primary goals of 3 Bunnies are:
 To rescue abandoned,
unwanted, and abused rabbits without prejudice to age, gender, breed,
type, or other issues; to provide foster care; to spay and neuter; to
provide medical and rehabilitative care; to find permanent quality
indoor homes for them;
 To educate the public and assist humane societies, animal control
officers, and other rescues, in teaching proper rabbit care to the
public;
 To reduce, primarily by public education, the number of rabbits
abandoned at shelters and / or turned loose when no longer wanted.
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3 Bunnies Rabbit Rescue, Inc
P.O. Box 380605
East Hartford, CT 06138-0605
USA
info@3bunnies.org
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| Easter & Appeal to the Clergy |
The Easter Bunny
Make Mine Chocolate
Articles
Easter is a very sad time of year for bunnies and bunny lovers.
Although bunnies are celebrated as part of Easter,
the sad reality is that most people don't know what they're getting
into when they give or get a pet rabbit on a whim, and shortly after
the novelty wears off and they are left caring for an animal they
didn't really want.
Letters to the editor about Easter and bunnies that have been
previously published can be found
here and
here,
and some sample letters you may want to use to write your own letter
can be found
here and
here.
You are also more than welcome to use our own
open letter to Clergy as a template if you want to approach
the clergy on this matter.
The end result of almost all Easter rabbits is usually one of:
- The rabbit dies within weeks, from unintentional
neglect or cruelty, due to mishandling, improper diet, unrecognized
illness, etc
- The rabbit is kept in an outdoor hutch and forgotten about, and
lives a substantially shortened life from lack of care and love (see
housing)
- The rabbit is kept caged indoors with no opportunity for exercise,
and lives a shortened life from atrophy and general distress (see
health and playtime)
- The rabbit is set loose outside (this is a death sentence - the
average life expectancy for a domestic rabbit released in the wild is
three days, and it dies a horrible death from predators or thoughtless
humans)
- The rabbit is brought to a shelter, where chances are good it will
be euthanized if no one adopts it quickly
- The rabbit is killed by its owner because it is an inconvenience
(see the alerts page for some examples of this)
- The rabbit dies before its first birthday, usually due
to ignorance or improper care
In the months that follow Easter, rabbit rescue groups deal with one
emergency after another, and a great many rabbits lose their lives
because of the ignorance and thoughtlessness of humans.
This poem eloquently illustrates the life of
many rabbits from their point of view. This
story is another eloquent example of what many
bunnies endure.
Shelters and rescue groups have tried to educate the public about this
plight. Pet stores have tried to educate the public, and indeed some
halt sales of rabbits prior to Easter. Individuals distribute flyers
and try to pass the word. Unfortunately, sometimes a bunny's cute and
cuddly-looking face turns well-educated people into blithering
idiots, and then the reality of caring for a bunny turns them into
cruel and heartless people.
We propose turning to the clergy. Priests, ministers, preachers,
anyone who addresses the masses that celebrate Easter - these are the
people who can effect a change. They can lead their congregations in a
celebration that doesn't have such unfortunate long-range
results. Please consider talking to your clergy, or sending a letter
like this
to any clergy members you may know.
Some alternatives to getting a real bunny on a whim for Easter:
- Give a chocolate bunny instead!!
- Give a stuffed plush toy!!
- Sponsor a rabbit in a shelter or rescue
- Foster a rabbit to find out if they're the right pet for you
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