First I would advise to ask an adoption fee (that could be negotiable) People who spend money to get a pet treat it properly (usually) and people who get free pets (generally) don’t look after them, take them to the vets or keep them forever.

Also, I’m not sure what your laws are there, but here it’s known that researchers who need animals for experiments often get them from ‘free to good home ad’s’. So, I stongly suggest you ask an adoption fee…Maybe 25$ …If they can’t afford that, highly unlikely they can handle vet fees.

Anyways, how bout:

Hi my name is ____and I’m a ______type of rabbit. Me and my brothers and sisters are being offered for adoption as we need to find our very own forever homes! I’m already neutered/spayed so my new parent’s wouldn’t have to worry about that! And I’m also litter trained. I can’t wait to have my new very own home!! I’d like parent’s who understand that rabbit’s are exotic animals who require routine veterinary care just like cats and dogs do!! I love to play and run (or personal info that applies). I don’t always like being picked up, but I’d like when people play with me on the ground. If you are interested in meeting me or my brothers and sisters, please call…..

i would put ‘Rabbits for adoption, they are house rabbits and are not to be kept outside, all spayed neutered, call for more information’ if they are nice and simple like that then u wont get all silly people calling if anyone wants more information you can spend 10mins explaining when they call instead of trying to cram all the info into a small advert, usually they have a word limit and like K&K said i would charge a fee because if they cant afford the price of the rabbit they cant afford to look after one and you dont know with people nowadays!

Here are some examples in our local Craigslist and Petfinder.com ads from the House Rabbit Society and other rescues.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/pet/669052664.html

http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=6500054

http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=7216568

i like the second one which BB has shown, and gosh BB you must be up early!

I think that’s excellent! You really do a good job of explaining exactly what sort of bunnies someone’s going to get without either selling them short or making them look like easy pets. However, as an OCD English major, can I clean up some minor grammar mistakes so the sign will look more professional?

“Parents” should not have an apostrophe, as that makes the word possessive– you just want it plural. I.E., “parents” not “parent’s” both times you use the word. Same with the “rabbits” used in the same sentence. Also “We do not always, like being picked up” doesn’t need a comma. It should just be “We do not always like being picked up” Finally, in the last sentence, “brothers, sisters or I please e-mail” should be “brothers, sisters or me, please e-mail” as I becomes me when it’s the object in a sentence (think: “If you are interested in meeting I” vs. “If you are interested in meeting me.”) It doesn’t have to be changed the first time you use it because there it’s the subject (“I am being offered” vs. “Me am being offered”.)

Sorry about the long-windedness, I’m just a nut for punctuation. (I’m going to be that teacher everyone dreads someday…)

Also, do you think you might want to raise the adoption fee if you’re giving away care-packages? I know when you’re adopting a house rabbit around here the fee is like $70 to (a) make sure you’re serious and (b) offset the cost of the spay/neuter. I wouldn’t necessarily go that high, but maybe bring it up to $35 or $40 rather than $25? Just a thought.

Good luck finding your babies good homes!!!

yes it sounds a good add, i may also suggest an increase in price because $25 dollars is nothing to anyone really nowadays is it?

HJSoulma,
Don’t worry, you’re not the only one with an urge to edit! Thanks for spotting more than I did.

It’s a very good ad, but I do have one basic question – Are they being adopted separately, together (ie. all three) or with an option for a pair? I am a bit confused. If it’s separately, than you could say $25 each. Maybe add $45 for two and $60 for all three. Of course you want someone who really wants three bunnies, not just a bargain.

I think your care package is a wonderful idea. I would add the link to House Rabbit Society (http://www.rabbit.org), and perhaps directions to the webpage that lists recommended Veterinarians by location. Once you know where they’re going, you could even print out a suggested list. (OK, HJS, now I’m totally self- conscious about my own writing here!!! I am very familiar with Brandeis. YOur posts make me homesick.)

Scooter here. I think the ad reads well, with the minor fixes suggested by HJSoulma. Good luck, we hope they find forever homes soon!

HJSoulma: I *am* that teacher that everyone dreads. Don’t feel bad, I’m a real stickler for grammar and syntax too because I’m writing and editing scientific documents all the time. Requires very precise use of language…changing more than a comma can change the meaning of what you want to say. Assuming anyone, including me, can actually understand it in the first place.

**sits on hands to keep from deleting extra space in last sentence of reply and making the “O” lc** 2 of you – Egad!

i am planning to be a teacher, but i hate grammer its never made sense to me, give me long equations and anything mathematical but english sucks lol

what you could do is ask for an adoption fee, but then make up a care package that costs that same amount, so really everyone is breaking even. if you asked for 50 bucks, you could get a good house rabbit book, some bunny toys, and maybe a bag of the food they are on.

but if you ask too little they might go to homes that are not suitable. it’s your call, but i think if you ask too little you’re asking for trouble.

I would like to strongly urge you to offer a decent price for these buns, $85 is not too much to ask I think. That is what I paid for my buns, each!

There are people out there looking for a next meal for their pet snakes and $25 is a decent price for meal, don’t you think?!

Just a caution!

i know this is not an easy thing to do… you need to strongly weigh if you want them to get new homes quickly or if you want them to get quality homes slowly. i’d advertise them in as many different places as possible with pictures if possible so people understand that they are not itty bitty babies. even if you ask 50 per bunny and then when they pick them up just hand the money right back… at least you’ll know they were willing to pay the amount.

The House Rabbit Society has an article about finding homes for rabbits:

http://www.rabbit.org/adoption/finding-a-new-home.html

Given that $40 is the going cost of a rabbit from a pet store in your area, that’s your limit.  I don’t think you can go over or even equal that, if you want any chance of having someone take them.  Even with a bonus gift package to go with them, because otherwise people will say “what’s the point, I’ll just go to the pet store”.

And I think that something like $20-$30 will deter people who just want live snake food.  For that price, one can buy more dead mice or rats or such for that purpose, or even live ones which shouldn’t be given to snakes for the most part anyway–too much potential for damage to the snake, which are pretty expensive themselves, as a responsible snake-owner can attest!

One thing to consider is pointing out the cost of spaying/neutering the bunnies, which is not insignificant.  We realized that yesterday in deciding between Kylie and Keelie, who are already spayed (effectively a $500 value, which would be what we’d pay at our vet for both), and a baby bunny for whom we’d have to pay ourselves.   However, I don’t think it’s a good idea to go above $40 even with this, for the reasons given above.

Also, how much time do you have to place the bunnies?  The more time you have, the more flexible you can be.

Maybe if you plan on raising the price you should stress the importance of a spayed/neutered rabbit and put in parentheses something like “spayed/neutered (a $70 value!)” or whatever it cost you to get them fixed. That might attract more serious owners. Could you also do an over-the-phone interview like the House Rabbit Network does? And also, don’t worry about the corrections– grammar’s a beeotch, and I’m a nutty bookworm! I’ve corrected plenty of fellow college students’ papers with the same sort of mistakes. (Also, RabbitPam, did you go to Brandeis? Yay alums!)

HJSoulma,
No I didn’t but I have a cousin who did. (I interviewed there years ago for a job running the art gallery but didn’t get it. )
I think the story in the family is that my grandmother’s cousin was one of the founders.

Lisa, I don’t blame you for crying, it must be very traumtizing for you.  I think take your time, go through a bit of an interview to make certain the adopter knows how much work they are going to be and if for any reason they feel like they are over their head and cannont continue to care for the rabbit for ANY reason, to call you immediately so you can have them back.

As for the emergency list, are you speaking about the emergency kit?  Here are the discussions not just about that but about evacuation in the event of a disaster (FYI – They are in the FAQ section):

Emergency Kits: (both for rabbit health emergency and for Disaster preparation for our rabbits)

https://binkybunny.com/Default.aspx?tabid=54&forumid=2&postid=15369&view=topic

https://binkybunny.com/Default.aspx?tabid=54&forumid=1&postid=24389&view=topic

Emergency Preparedness:

https://binkybunny.com/Default.aspx?tabid=54&forumid=1&tpage=1&view=topic&postid=17363#17382

Rabbitpam,
Aww, silly Rose Art museum, they should have given you the job. Then we could have been close-by-bunny-friends! But alas. Cool that you might be related to one of the founders, though.

((((((lisa))))))  gees this must be hard.  have you posted the ad yet?  i missed the boat on advice for the ad but i see you have had great feedback.  just remember you can take as long as you want when deciding if a potential adopter is the right fit for your buns.  i know you will find really great people for your buns so they’ll be happily spoiled.

ps… my grammar & punctuation is terrible.  i think i was sick the week we took it in school   so i really just punctuate & write the way i speak.  oi.

if u get the advert up and running post us the link!

HJS,

That would have been nice. All the close-by-bunny friends seem to live in Perth, Australia!