The Rabbit Residence Rescue

6ft x 5ft x 2ft wooden hutch for sale

A friend of the rescue centre is selling the hutch above - with the money raised being donated to the Rabbit Residence! It is a sturdy cage in good condition - perhaps needs a coat of wood stain. The hutch will need to be picked up from near Garston Watford by junction 6 of the M1 and will need transporting in a high top transit or an open back truck. Please email Karyn if you are interested: karyn.s@ntlworld.com

Assortment of pet carriers for sale

We have a number of pet carriers for sale at reasonable prices - please contact me for further information.

TV appearance on the Paul O'Grady show!!

The Rabbit Residence was recently featured on the Paul O'Grady show, providing valuable publicity for the rescue centre as well as helping to educate the public about keeping rabbits as pets and promoting the 'Make Mine Chocolate' campaign. See this link for more information!

Fly Strike Awareness

As the weather starts to get warmer the risk of flystrike increases. Please download our leaflet to learn about how you can try to prevent this distressing condition:

flystrike_poster.pdf

We are supporting the 'Make Mine Chocolate!' campaign.

This campaign aims to raise awareness of the sad plight of the thousands of pet rabbits bought as presents at Easter and then abandoned months if not weeks later. To help spread the message that "Chocolate is a Treat, Rabbits are a Commitment" you can download a poster like that shown on the left from the campaign website: www.makeminechocolate.co.uk

Caroline was recently interviewed by the Cambridge News on how the credit crunch is causing an increase in the number of rabbits given to the rescue for rehoming. The video interview can be viewed here.

We are  pleased to announce that the Rabbit Residence has been granted permission to remain at the current site for another year (until November 2009)!

I would also like to thank everyone who donated their time, money or other goods towards the recent make-over of the rescue. This was a wonderful surprise and also a great help - thank you! However, there are still many jobs that need doing. In particular, if you are good at DIY and can donate a day to help with fixing gates and hutches at the rescue then please get in touch!

Caroline (October 2008)

Thank you to everyone who supported my campaign to keep the rabbit residence open!

An amazing 1967 people signed our petition to keep The Rabbit Residence open! Reading your words of support was a great source of strength at this very stressful time and so I am very grateful to all those who took the time to sign the petition. We passed the petition over to the council and I am sure that it helped to strengthen our case.

Thankfully, we were successful in our bid to obtain planning permission to keep the site open! However, I have only been granted permission for a year which means that I will have to make a reapplication later in the year. We will keep you updated on the progress.

Kindest regards,

Caroline (Autumn 2007)

Our website has recently been honoured with a Munchkin award!

This award aims to promote education and responsible rabbit care in the community and so we are thrilled to be recipients.   For more information about the award, please follow the following link:

http://www.boingonline.com/award_program.html

Introduction

Thank you for taking the time to express an interest in ‘rescuing’ a pair of rabbits. Each year more than 33,000 rabbits are handed over to shelters because their owners can’t or won’t look after them. The day people stop buying rabbits from pet shops is the day pet shops will stop selling them and perhaps rabbits will no longer be abandoned and mistreated as they are today.

Through this website I provide as much information as I can about rabbits, how to look after them and how much fun you can have when things go well. It is only fair to also outline how, if things don’t go to smoothly, to cope and how to get the most from your relationship with your rabbits that you can. Rabbits are wonderful pets and give hours of enjoyment if they are looked after and loved.

I invite all people who make contact with me to visit the Rabbit Residence Rescue facilities; to watch and learn first hand how rabbits like to live, the size of run they should have and how and why I make the recommendations that I make. I want you to know and understand what you take on when you ‘adopt’ a pair of rabbits! That way the rabbits will not suffer any further disappointments and harm in uncaring homes.

Please read the information on this website carefully. It will help you decide if you want to look after rabbits and what kind of support is available.

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