Bunny Rescue

A co-worker of mine just got this email.



Subject: The Great Bunny Rescue

Dear Members and Friends,

The Great Bunny Rescue of 2006 is now a race against time.

LAST WEEK, WE EVACUATED 1,000 RABBITS from a backyard in Reno, Nevada, where they’ve been living in desperate circumstances, and where babies are still being born at the rate of 50 every day. (Most of the new litters are born underground in warrens that the rabbits have dug. So we have to wait for them to surface before we can rescue them.)

We’ve leased a 65-acre ranch nearby, which will serve as the Best Friends Rabbit Rescue Center for the next few months.

We’ve set up a surgical facility, with the essential medical supplies, to provide triage care and to handle spaying and neutering, which is now going into high gear.

And once the bunnies are stable, we’ll be embarking on the biggest rabbit adoption program anywhere ever.

Over the weekend, the story appeared in newspapers all over the country.

AND NOW YOUR HELP IS URGENTLY NEEDED

AS A VOLUNTEER. If you live nearby, or are able to travel to Reno, we need veterinarians, vet techs, caregivers, fence-builders, equipment handlers, cooks, assistants, and others to continue moving this effort forward.
* Please go to http://network.bestfriends.org and click on the “Volunteer”
button OR call us at 435-644-3965 ext. 4723.

AS A DONOR. $50 will provide special care for a bunny needing medical attention. $100 will provide medical care and subsidize a bunny spay/neuter.
$500 will take care of a group of 10 rabbits, get them fixed and place them in a new home anywhere in the country.
* Just go to http://network.bestfriends.org and click on the “We Need Bunny Money” icon, or call us at 435-644-3965 ext. 4723

BY ADOPTING A RABBIT – OR 10! Some are feral bunnies, looking for spacious, protected back yards to live in. Adopt a group up to 10, and we’ll be happy to guide you through the process of setting up your backyard to be a happy bunny habitat for them. Baby rabbits being born right now can be adopted as house rabbits as soon as they’re old enough to be spayed or neutered.
* Go to http://network.bestfriends.org and click on the “Adopt” tab, or call us at 435-644-3965 ext. 4723.

JOIN THE BEST FRIENDS NETWORK: You’ll get daily updates, and you can network with other people who care about animals at http://network.bestfriends.org

There’s also daily news on the main Best Friends web site at http://www.bestfriends.org.

Thank you, as always, for your support. Between us all, let’s see if we can really pull a rabbit out of the hat on this one!

Michael Mountain
Best Friends Animal Society


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Looks like the Easter bunny went wild. Lots of dutch ones. Any one got any ideas if there are angora's I sure would like any of those.

No long-haired bunnies in that rescue, I looked through all the photos. But petfinder.org has a bunch of angora bunnies needing homes!