This is awesome LPT! I was just thinking last night about getting started on this as well. There are 3 ads up on my local kijiji already about people selling baby “Easter bunnies”. Once our slim fit program ends at work i’m going to set up a display in reception about proper small animal care, etc. So I would appreciate any links to good info

I keep posting things on facebook about this issue. Its my way of not directly confronting my sister in law about this. She wanted to get my nephew (who is a year and half old) a bunny for easter.   I was so  upset when she said that and tried telling her how much work it is and you cant put them outside. I really feel that if she went through and got one they would let it go in the wild in a few months, and I have seen first hand what happens when people do that to their bunnies  I’m going to start putting up some flyers too, and my sister works at a pet store and I have making sure that her pet store educates people on bunnies before they buy them, and they actually do a very good job of it. Love that Easter Poem too so cute!! 

Ironically, I start campaigning yesterday. Got Rabbitron permission to use some of their pics as my facebook photo, cover and profile and I plan on printing a flyer for my vet office. I’m really tempted to put one up at the petstore in town that always sells bunnies. Maybe I’ll sneak one of makeminechocolate’s business cards on the board. Being smaller, they might not catch it and it’ll stay up

I love this time of year because of spring and all the awesome bunny decorations but I dread knowing that it is the worst time of year for actual rabbits

I’m pretty sure all the people I have friended on facebook already know me as “that bunny girl” (lol), but I was planning to spend some time designing a cover pic this week for the purpose. If it turns out okay I’ll try to post it on here so people can use it too.

I’ve also put up flyers around my school and local coffee shops for bunny awareness .

I am planing on making a youtube video on my youtube channel. Then maybe posting it on FB as well.I may be able to get my subscribers and maybe you guys here on BB to post on their FB as well.

Oh I sent that Make Mine Chocolate to my vets in both states hah. And spammed my board with it. and pinned it on Pinterest

Locally, there is little to be done for rabbits. Every time the topic comes up, it is disgust that people show for having them as pets. Every single person that I have discussed rabbits with, or heard discussing rabbits, finds killing them via abuse funny. Boyfriend has mentioned our bunny to people when we buy veggies, restaurant workers, etc and afterwards I always just want to leave the business and never go back because every single one of them has an abuse story to share that they find funny that they did. Even going out to dinner I have to randomly hear of abuse of rabbits from the people at the next table sometimes. It’s to the point there are few places in the city I even want to step foot in. It’s a smallish town, so always the same people serving us, I pretty much only go out to three places anymore… all chains 40 miles away.

I will share on facebook, G+ and care2 though. Lots more caring people in other parts of the country!

Posted By Rei on 03/09/2012 08:17 AM

I keep posting things on facebook about this issue. Its my way of not directly confronting my sister in law about this. She wanted to get my nephew (who is a year and half old) a bunny for easter.   I was so  upset when she said that and tried telling her how much work it is and you cant put them outside. I really feel that if she went through and got one they would let it go in the wild in a few months, and I have seen first hand what happens when people do that to their bunnies  I’m going to start putting up some flyers too, and my sister works at a pet store and I have making sure that her pet store educates people on bunnies before they buy them, and they actually do a very good job of it. Love that Easter Poem too so cute!! 

I know this sounds odd, but have you asked her if you could bring your bunny over for a few hours instead? Back when I was a child (we had outside bunnies that weren’t kept in hutches but were free roam on the ground in a large colony) my parents would bring in one or two of our rabbits for Easter. The few hours of (supervised) abuse that your bunny might suffer are a lot better than what a permanent (probably baby) bunny they buy would have to go through. That way she can get some picture of her son with a bunny (which is I am sure the main motivation for her wanting one), and her son will forget about the rabbit within 5 minutes.
Or at the very least, you could offer a list of rescues she can go to after she royally effs this up.

I hear ya stickerbunny. I don’t tell people I don’t know that I have a bunny. My mom learned why last week. She was with me and told someone at a doctors office that I was showing her cute pictures of my rabbit and they went into this long story about how they had two, and then they started having babies and I’ll leave it at that but my mom and I were very sad at the end of the story and when that woman was gone, I told my mom, “and that is why I don’t tell people I don’t know that I have a rabbit… because there’s too many people who abuse them or eat them”

But my fb people know I’m rabbit crazy. I might lose a few friends over my crazy postings the last couple days but if they don’t like it, oh well!

I made this:

Posted By KytKattin on 03/09/2012 11:33 AM

I know this sounds odd, but have you asked her if you could bring your bunny over for a few hours instead? Back when I was a child (we had outside bunnies that weren’t kept in hutches but were free roam on the ground in a large colony) my parents would bring in one or two of our rabbits for Easter. The few hours of (supervised) abuse that your bunny might suffer are a lot better than what a permanent (probably baby) bunny they buy would have to go through. That way she can get some picture of her son with a bunny (which is I am sure the main motivation for her wanting one), and her son will forget about the rabbit within 5 minutes.
Or at the very least, you could offer a list of rescues she can go to after she royally effs this up.

Well my nephew always likes to pet Molly whenever they are visiting my house. But he is only interested for maybe 5 minutes before he goes off trying to pick soemthing else up. If she is still serious about getting a bunny I will offer to educate and let them really see what its like to take care of Molly. I just know that if they end up not wanting it I would take it off their hands, but I really don’t have the room for another rabbit right now anyway…sigh…I really hope she doesnt get one. Its just too sad.

How about a trial owning a rabbit? Like, you could let them rabbit sit Molly for a week (under your supervision, you go check to make sure Molly isn’t being neglected and has food/water etc daily) and let them see how much work a rabbit really is?

Oh boy thats scary!! lol but in all honesty it sounds like a great idea! I’m not positive she is still planning on getting one…she just had a new baby via C-section so she isn’t getting around too well as it is right now, so she may not even feel like getting a rabbit this easter (lets hope not!!)

the easter bunny in the poem let those parents off too easy. it should’ve been,

“He un-caged the rabbit, once lively and quick,
then kicked ma in the face, and me in the dick”

lol Mike

Rei, yeah I wouldn’t do it if you think the boy would hurt her and be rough, but if you think they wouldn’t hurt her then might be a good experiment for them. And if you visit daily she can get proper care even if they won’t do it, then they can see how much work a bun is.

I am going to make a Youtube video, post a facebook message, twitter post, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Rg7P8lBTs&context=C4209b64ADvjVQa1PpcFNIaeBrvvV1gO5hTpSl3wJpCw41l-c5390=
share this video! It’s about hucthes, but eh, most ppl keep them in hutches :/

LPT, I’m bawling like a baby right now after that poem, but as soon as I’m done may I have permission to cross post that to other bunny forums for distribution?
I used to love Easter…now I’m dreading it. So many people breed rabbits and other animals carelessly up here thinking only of quick profit.

Posted By FrankieFlash on 03/09/2012 11:34 AM
I hear ya stickerbunny. I don’t tell people I don’t know that I have a bunny. My mom learned why last week. She was with me and told someone at a doctors office that I was showing her cute pictures of my rabbit and they went into this long story about how they had two, and then they started having babies and I’ll leave it at that but my mom and I were very sad at the end of the story and when that woman was gone, I told my mom, “and that is why I don’t tell people I don’t know that I have a rabbit… because there’s too many people who abuse them or eat them”

But my fb people know I’m rabbit crazy. I might lose a few friends over my crazy postings the last couple days but if they don’t like it, oh well!

IT DRIVE ME NUTS!!!! 

I don’t get insane stories like that very often now, but when they are finished blabbing, I ask them politely “did you know rabbits can be spayed and neutered?” and they look at me like ….

I’m on instagram and there is a person that has 2 rabbits. they are both siblings, and they are 3 months of age. she said that the boy has began his ‘advances’ on the girl. She is a part of a group that I joined (another instagram member made a bunny group) and I posted that she needs to seperate them, asap. Some people just ‘don’t listen.’ it just takes a few seconds and BAM, you’ve got a pregnant rabbit and are freaking out.

Frankie, I know the lady that runs Rabbitron!  she has a bunch of bunnies that she takes care of. She offered me an opportunity to take care of all of them this summer so she can go on vacation, but I dont have a car 

yesterday, i received an annual newsletter from the humane society. in 2011, the shelter received 191 rabbits, 177 were adopted 

Oh, tell me about it… it’s terrible! People at school tell me terrible stories, now when I talk rabbit, and they
start to talk i say”is thisa good story or a bad bunny story?” They jsut roll their eyes

speaking of that, i had a customer a month ago that got a rabbit. she had no idea how to take care of it, so i gave her the house rabbit society page. she came back to my line this past week, and told me that she gave it to her granddaughter… *facepalm*

Chacha: Wow, that’s nice.  This kid in 9th grade set 12 rabbits free! Why are people so stupid sometimes?

I’m not sending offense towars un- educated rabbit owners but.. Geez people!

Here is my Campaign sign! It’s not great, but it’s got a message.

if i made one using chacha’s picture, she would write diva like stuff on the photo.

Chacha: Haha, yeah. Sasssy thang lol. Bunnies♥

Chacha: Haha, yeah. Sasssy thang lol. Bunnies♥

I think Monkey’s would say “Child slavery is against the law, so do not buy me as a present for easter.”

I posted the Easter Rabbit poem from HRS on the bird forum I am on and some of the members are going to cross post it to their facebooks to spread the word against Easter bunny buying.

chacha, I love the rabbitron billboards. I haven’t seen one in real life but I honestly think I would die of excitement if I did. And I think she is amazing for rescuing all those rabbits. I idolize people who have the finances to do that. And wouldn’t that be awesome watching all those bunnies?! (ok ya, it’d be a lot of work but also a lot of cute!) I’d lend you my car if I was closer

We read and talked about getting a Flemish Giant for a year before we even started looking of one… We (my hubby and I) wanted a rabbit in our home we pick the pets because we the adults take care of them…(my girls cant keep their room clean let alone care for another life) yes the help and loving playing with our pets but not ready to be a pet owner aka slave…
I dont understand how and why people think a living bearthing feeling animal is a present!!! They are a life long commitment!!!!! I dislike Christmas because a puppy or kitten is soooo cute in the box under the tree… I dont like Easter cause not only do people think bunnies, ducklings and chicks are cute but goats too and then when the cute wheres offer we will just let it go, take it to the pound, let it sit and the cage anddo the bare mimium or worse hurt the poor animal….
Stop over indguing your childs every whim and say no!!!
Sorry for my rant but people wake up and think!!!!
This a part of my post!!!

Kinda serious but I think its funny because Sam is so antisocial <3

Woah those are huge. Let me try to resize them-

S&L human- Love the one that says I don’t want a child this year!

HAHAH why can’t I stop laughing at that samson pic?!?! How do I add text to a chacha pic? paint? don’t tempt me guys!

Haha I know right? Grumpy ol’ Samson <3 You can add it in paint, or in photobucket

GIMP is a free program that is somewhat on par with the overpriced “Adobe Photoshop”. I love it!

Gimp is awesome. i <3 open source

KytKattin and S&L – love the graphics!

Agreed on Gimp..I haven’t touched Adobe Photoshop in years. Not saying that I’m any good with Gimp though, haha.

I’ve decided that I am going to post a fact about rabbits up until easter on my facebook page. Hopefully it will help some bunnies this easter!

Gimp is not comparable to photoshop Entirely different league of program. But its great that its free

Haha S&L, if I recall correctly you have professional photography/graphics experience, so I have no doubt that for you Gimp and Photoshop are vastly different. Gimp is awesome for my simple graphical editing though!

I was out today and I saw a bunny awareness poster on a community board! No idea who put it there but I’m glad I’m not the only one spamming the community .

I like photoshop, but I used to use it as a job for a little bit so I learned to use a lot of the tools.

I tried to post on craigslist but I don’t think it was a very well liked post, cause it didn’t last long. lol

Meh, Photoshop isn’t worth the money if you don’t know how to use it, and so far everything I have learned on the school computers with Photoshop I can come home and do with GIMP. So while there probably are limits, I have yet to reach them based on the limited work in graphic design I do in my school’s art program. I would probably have noticed more if I was a Digital Medium major (or whatever they call it here), but since I am Museum Studies/Teaching I am more of a “jack of all trades, master of none.” Plus I am not going to pretend for a minute that once I actually am a teacher my students are going to have access to Photoshop.

I get my photoshop for free, I agree it’s not really worth the money for regular stuff, unless you are trying to do professional art projects on it.

This hits far too close to home already…

My aunt just bought my 5 year old cousin a 12 week old lion head hot-tot mix bunny. He’s freaking 5!!! >_< She works constantly, and her husband just got deployed to Afghanistan. I tried talking her out of it, tried directing her to THIS site in particular because of how much useful information is here. She said she was busy and couldn't take at the moment… I told her to make sure to call me when she got the chance. Haven't heard a peep and have tried calling her numerous times since with no answer. She's feeding him the food with the dried fruit and seeds in it because the SHELTER told her it was ok for them. My little cousin wanted a bunny so his could come over and have play dates with mine and she didn't even try to explain to him that that's not possible!

I want to go over there and steal him from her. Especially since they just got rid of their rag doll cat because her son didn’t like it anymore and supposedly the cat attacked him. Well of course the damn cat is going to attack him if he doesn’t like it because animals know when you don’t like them!

Ugh!!! Sorry, touchy subject at the moment, and I’m done ranting.

Binx: Iam sorry, but I just had to laugh a little. When you started to get frusterating, I felt your pain. Me cousin is 7 and killed her bunny. She put damn christmas lights up IN his cage and he ate them(?) So ya \(‘ ‘)/

Pandora: I get frustrated easily over things I care so much about. :3 And OMG!!! Some people’s kids! I built my buns a christmas tree out of parsley poked into cardboard I knew was safe for them to chew on and made them a garland out of fruits and veggies, they were so distracted by the goodies they didn’t even eat the string it was strung on! Hooray for proper bunny decorations!

Petfooddirect is promoting rabbits for Easter by selling rabbit hutches (outdoor ones) for Easter season.

I just made if Little Puffy Tail
Feel free to post it to your page

Yup Peppy

I hung signs around the neighborhood. I will probably hang some at the post office, gas station corkboard thingy, and especially the pet stores. Theres a thrift shop in town. This weekend I am going to get some colorful blankets for “the Pablo king”. I could hang some there. They keep them up too. (most of the time)