the sanctuary website is www.pighoppers.org or www.vegsource.com/pighoppers. we also have a "bunnies for adoption" page on petfinders.com...it was uptodate as of 2 wks ago.....however we have new buns coming in so there will be more we need to add. Yes, I shamed the director in to changing her mind and accepting more buns...I had to promise to do an adoption event at our local Petco on 12/21 though...... You know me, I just want to keep them all!!!! After all, LOL!!!!, NO ONE will take as good care of them as I will!!!!

The kiddie wading pool story....Cloud is a 6 yr spayed female we rescued about 1 year and a half ago. We are not sure what set her off but she suddenly started having a wet butt and back feet during early summer even though she was living outside in a huge grass covered yard. We were worried about fly strike so we gave her a bath and discovered some urine scalding....so we put her in the hospital. Until recently the floor of the pens in the hospital (about 9 ft x 8 ft each) were covered with newspapers. Her raw skin got better but her fur didn't grow back and she continued to sit in her pee, the newspapers not absorbent enough .... The vet, bless her heart, suggested we confine Cloud to a wading pool with several inches of CareFresh.... And you know how expensive CareFresh is, that was just out of the question. By this time it was August and the director was going out of town for a week, so I took Cloud and a kiddie pool home. (same time I brough Marie and Casey home). I figured if I put down some litter and then a thick layer of shredded paper on top of that that the urine would drain down to the litter and the shred paper would be minimally damp. And it worked! I surrounded the pool with puppy pen fencing, gave her a litter box (which she slept in!) and cleaned the pool every darn day. She ended up doing quite well in those circumstances....AND, the best part is, that her fur grew back!!! However I lost a good part of my living room and had to move some furniture out....then Chocolate, Robbie and Emma were very jealous and would try to attack her through the fencing. She would be a great bun in a one bun house...she didn't like the other buns either! As sweet as she was with me, I just couldn't keep her so she is now back at PH in the hospital but she still has her wading pool. She is doing ok there but her circumstances could still be a bit better.

This is not a funny story, like Velvet with baggies on his feet, but still it worked. One thing about being a nearly broke, nonprofit sanctuary we do get real creative with our problem solving.

Thanks for asking!