My House Rabbit's Bunny Blog » dance with the bunnies rabbit rescue http://www.myhouserabbit.com/blog Celebrating House Rabbits Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:13:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Rabbit Rescue Spotlight: Dance with the Bunnies Rabbit Rescue http://www.myhouserabbit.com/blog/2008/05/07/rescue-spotlight-dance-with-the-bunnies-rabbit-rescue/ http://www.myhouserabbit.com/blog/2008/05/07/rescue-spotlight-dance-with-the-bunnies-rabbit-rescue/#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 19:50:03 +0000 My House Rabbit http://myhouserabbit.com/blog/2008/05/07/rescue-spotlight-dance-with-the-bunnies-rabbit-rescue/ Now is the time when many rescues get a lot of unwanted rabbits. It’s been just long enough after Easter that bunnies that were bought for the holiday start to lose their charm with people who didn’t have accurate expectations of owning a pet rabbit. And so the bunny gets “set free” in the wild or placed in shelters.

Bonnie Pulver of Dance with the Bunnies Rabbit Rescue in Greenville, NC has tried to curb this trend by passing out informational flyers and directing people to Make Mine Chocolate. She runs a foster home for bunnies out of her house through the Friends of the Pitt County Animal Shelter. And while “bounce-back bunnies” are less than ideal, she would prefer people relinquish their unwanted pets to a no-kill rescue/shelter rather than setting them loose in the wild, where they have little chance of survival.

According to Pulver, “Turning them loose does not set them free. It makes them food. That white bunny has no security in the wild … They are on the very bottom of the food chain.”

Bonnie Pulver and two rabbits

For more information, visit: http://www.bunspace.com/view_bunny?bunid=3547 http://www.reflector.com/local/content/news/stories/2008/05/05/RabbitRescue.html

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