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Forum RESCUE EFFORTS FOR SHELTERS Helping Easter Bunnies.

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    • DallasDelight
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        I have a question. I am sad to see how many bunnies are being sold for Easter. This is the first year I have really paid attention, because last year I didn’t have a bunny on Easter and didn’t know as much about how bad it is for them, so I didn’t pay much attention. Thanks to being here, it was brought to my awareness. I want to help them, and the thought I came up with is putting flyers up all around town the day after Easter, saying I will take in any rabbit somebody got for Easter that they no longer want or can no longer take care of. I live in a very small town, so the likelihood of me getting totally inandated with unwanted rabbits is slim to none..I might not even get any replies!! But I want to try, anyway. I planned to take in the rabbits and, depending on their age, rehome them. I’d looove to keep them all, but I cannot keep a ton more rabbits. I might be able to get my parents to let me keep ONE more, but that’d be it. The problem I’m having is because we DO live in such a small town, there aren’t nearly as many good homes for me to find them..I’d almost have to already have homes set up, so I knew I’d be able to find them a place. I am still not 100% sure I can do this, but I wanted to see if anybody here wanted to help and could take in one more bun? or two! I am located in West Texas, 4 hours south/southeast of El Paso in the Davis Mountains. We’re also close enough to the New Mexico border(2 hours away) that people from New Mexico could also help out!
        Let me know if anyone is interested!


      • wendyzski
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          Google the Make Mine Chocolate campaign for posters that might get the message across without you getting inundated with buns.


        • Beka27
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            I agree with Wendy. Like you said, you live in a small town so you might not even get a response, but I believe your efforts would be better focused on preventing them from being purchased initially. That would make more of an impact on the petstore if they got a shipment of a a couple dozen bunnies and not a single one sells. I’d also be afraid that this would make people feel that their truly was no risk in buying one (or three bunnies!) and just dumping them off a week later. That’s a noble idea you have, but I just don’t want to see it backfire on you.


          • alicat
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               Its a sweet idea, but you may end up with piles of un-neutered bunnies and could get quickly overrun. I was thinking that a good idea might be to talk to the feedstores/pet stores that have bunnies for sale and ask them to have a pile of info sheets next to the bunnies on display. Maybe it would be a proactive way of getting people informed before they take a bunny home. It could just have basics like required space, time out of cages/pens, recommended diet, etc.


            • DallasDelight
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                I’ve already posted the Make Mine Chocolate flyers around town. I was not going to put the signs up BEFORE Easter, only AFTER, so that people wouldn’t see the flyers and think they are safe either way. Trust me when I say I wouldn’t get inundated…by “small town”, I don’t mean a town of 15,000..or 10,000. Or even 5,000. I mean a town of less than 500 people, lol. Even though I would be a thousand times more likely to get no response at all, if by some out-of-this-world chance I did get too many, I could easily tell people that I was not taking anymore buns in.

                I wouldn’t be able to do this alone, which is why I was asking if anybody was willing to help out.


              • rabbitsmba
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                  What a thoughtful idea!

                  The Make Mine Chocolate campaign was designed to target this very specific time of year – use it to your advantage.  I definitely think you need to post those flyers BEFORE easter, so that you  make people think twice before even buying the rabbit.

                  As wonderful as your intentions are, making yourself available to take in any unwanted rabbits, IMO, is not that realistic and something you would absolutely need to discuss with your parents first, regardless of how small your town is.  If you are serious about helping rabbits in need and your parents support you, contact your nearest shelter or rabbit rescue organization.  Tell them you want to help, be a foster home or volunteer – they always need wonderful people like you!

                  Good luck!


                • MarkBun
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                    DallasD,

                    Here’s the thing I’m seeing. If you see ‘many’ rabbits being sold for Easter, you could probably assume that you could get every one. Those that buy one and want to get rid of it or the stores may try to shove them off on you when they’re no longer a sellable item. To make a grand, sweeping gesture like that could have you wind up with every bunny that you’ve seen. If anything, like rabbitsmba says, work with the local shelter or rescue.


                  • Kokaneeandkahlua
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                      I don’t know that there is a shelter near you is there? What about petstores? Maybe you could go into the petstore and try to finagle with them not to sell rabbits until after Easter? Kudos on getting the make mine chocolate posters up!

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