Watch a cute video of Loppy, a Holland lop, being a happy bun:

(Thanks, Nathan and Tiffany for sharing!)

Here’s a fun video created by the Best Friends Animal Society in Utah:

For all the bunny lovers in the UK, this week is a wonderful time to learn more about proper rabbit care and get free health checkups. 

It’s Rabbit Awareness Week (RAW) from May 23 – May 29, 2011!

Here are a few facts about pet bunnies:

• Rabbits can be litterbox trained.
• Rabbits need space to run and play everyday. In fact, many rabbit owners opt to let their bunnies have free reign all the time in a bunny-proofed room or entire home. They don’t actually need to be caged.
• Rabbits’ main diet should be hay (not pellets!). Hay should be available to rabbits at all times so they can graze when they want.
• Most rabbits don’t like being held. They prefer that you sit down with them at their level.
• Spaying/neutering your rabbit is essential. When spayed/neutered, rabbits become less aggressive and territorial, males stop spraying, litterbox habits improve, there are no accidental babies, and cancer risk decreases significantly.

Watch an adorable video from the RSPCA of how rabbits act when they’re not stuck in a hutch all day:

To find out which places are offering free health checkups and other rabbit-related events, go to the event locator on the Rabbit Awareness Week website.

To learn more about rabbit care, see:

• Rabbit Awareness Week website
• RSPCA RAW page
• House Rabbit Society
• My House Rabbit’s rabbit care section

After a Florida rabbit breeder appeared on the news saying she was broke and would be forced to sell all 79 of her rabbits to a zoo as snake food, first euthanizing them with a homemade gas chamber, several rabbit rescues came together to help. The rescues raised money to provide the woman with the $8/bunny that was promised by the zoo and picked the bunnies up yesterday to be transported to various foster homes and shelters throughout the eastern US.

See the original news story of the breeder and a followup story.

Although the rescues have raised enough money for the “bailout”, they still need donations to reimburse costs for transportation, spay and neuter, and general care of these rabbits. Learn more about this rescue mission and donate to their cause at BunnyTransport.com.

Organizations involved with this mass rescue are:

• Little Miracles Rabbit Rescue
• Gainesville Rabbit Rescue
• Magic Happens Rabbit Rescue
• Clover Patch Rabbit Sanctuary
• Little Furries Rescue & Referral
• Animal Welfare Association
• Humane Society Naples
• Luv-A-Bun Rabbit Rescue

Johna Mennone from the North Georgia House Rabbit Society shares some tips with Charles Barkley as he holds one of the shelter bunnies.

Two volunteers and two bunnies from the North Georgia House Rabbit Society visited with basketball greats Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, and Chris Webber on the show “Inside the NBA” to share some bunny facts on Easter Sunday.

Watch the Video on NBA.com »

[via House Rabbit Society]

Watch this short video on how to make a cute bunny cake for Easter or other occasions. No special molds/pans are needed!

The Burgess Premier Small Animal Show was held over the weekend in Harrogate, Yorkshire and featured a new rabbit jumping event, which attracted newer competitors from England and veteran jumpers from Sweden. The clip above features a champion rabbit show jumper named Flora from Sweden.

Other clips showcased less elegant rounds where bunnies crouched down refusing to jump over the hurdles, ran around/away from the hurdles, or knocked the bars down with their noses.

For more info:

BBC.co.uk
YorkPress.co.uk

At Staglands Wildlife Reserve near Wellington, New Zealand, staff went to check for eggs under one of their silky bantam hens and instead found a litter of four baby bunnies.

The mother rabbit, who was out in the parklands, doesn’t mind the avian babysitter.

According to Jayson Davis, who discovered the babies, “The mother rabbit has no problem with it. They only feed once a day which is usually at night time but I have occasionally seen her in there with the chicken herself, and the babies. It doesn’t seem to be a lot of room in there but there’s never any bickering.”

Learn more at TVNZ.