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IMPORTANT NOTICE
I'm having a day off!! Next saturday 12th May we shall not have our usual open day but be closed! We apologise for any inconvenience but shall reconvene our usual opening hours the following saturday 19th May. I shall be attending the Pet show in london, thank you
04/05/12
a pair of bunnies homed yesterday so that cheered me up. another delivery of bunnies to new home this afternoon. mobile phone network appears to be down so please email me as you wont get hold of me on my phone!
02/05/12
at vets all morning, cleaning out bunnies all afternoon, feel free to email or text if you can't get hold of me
tuesday 1st May
a quick note to say apologies for my voicemail not working. if you can't get hold of me please email or text. more importantly just to let everyone know i'm particulary under pressure and exhausted this week so please bare with me. the weather is making running a rescue so hard and taking me to breaking point.; feel like bursting into tears. so much goes on running a rescue its easy for me to get anxious and stressed. though i have an amazing team of volunteers who clean out for me and Gary and Vicki who help answer emails. its me who has to keep the rescue going in so many ways and split myself into 30. we are not a large establishment such as rspca, bluecross or wood green so homing can take 2-4 weeks from initial emails to people visiting the rescue, homechecks and asking various questions. we see so much ignorance and suffering animals, you'll have to excuse us if we seem a bloody nuisense!! we appreicate everyone's patience as i know people could quite easily go into a pet shop a buy a rabbit. however please do feel free to visit other rabbit rescues as we know we can be slow at times and as long as sumbunny gets homed we are delighted what ever rescue it is from.
friday 27th 21.30pm
the reality is im not going to be able to answer any new enquiries or emails til sunday. please forgive me. i have many rabbit vaccines that i must priorotise as we dont want our bunnies catching myxomatosis. i also have 6 cashmere lops to groom so really must put the bunnies first tonight and tomorrow. thank you for everyones interest in adopting bunnies. we will get back to you as soon as we can in the next few days
friday 27th April
Blimey! Where do i start? This rain has been exhaustive. Spent £50 this week buying tarpaulins to put over the rabbit runs and try and keep them dry. Thank god for Stuart who donated and made perspex windows for the hutches- really recommend these!! feel like crying otherwise over 100 rabbits to care for and the volunteers and I have been drowned like rats unless head to toe in waterproofs and even then feel like army training would be easier. mud mud and more mud. desperate for so much repair work and improvement, paving, concrete, roofs for aviaires. trying to facilitate so many rabbits in all weathers is costly and time consuming when all we want to do is love them and keep them safe we truely are being challanged while this weather lasts. 15.40 and i'll try get through all my emails. red bull and pro-plus if people can bare with me as i also have 9 long haired bunnies to groom- 6 cashmere lops were dumped in a cardboard box last week and i also have a sick bunny who has been in GI stasis for a whole week. thank you, Caroline
23/04/12
worked yesterday 9am til 3pm. had 6 cashmere lops handed in which had been dumped in a box in a field. had a lovely rare afternoon off celebrating my sisters birthday with my family but sooo tired and slept from 7pm til 7am. today stuck in office all day with 2 volunteers looking after the rabbits at the rescue. busy delivering bunnies to new homes tuesday, wednesday and thursday with a homecheck on friday. as always thanks for everyone's patience in answering enquries. voice message on phone seems to be failing. if you can't get hold of me please text or email thank you
16/04/12
This week i have the crucial task of health checking all rescue rabbits. We have over 100 rabbits that need full health checks once a month to ensure they are healthy and check for any rabbits that need medical attention, grooming etc to prevent flystrike. This means i will not have time to answer emails til friday at the earliest and we may need to close one saturday to complete this essential task. thank you for your paitence. (emails will be checked breifly on blackberry and by volunteers incase anything urgent).
Rabbits are not easter presents! they will live at least 10 yrs!
please don't buy rabbits on impulse this Easter. We dread this time of year and so often a few weeks later we are inundated with accidental litters and 100's of babies because people thought it would be cute to experience having baby bunnies at easter. pet shops regularly sex them wrongly too as well as back street breeders. rabbits pregnancy is only 31 days, on average they have 6 babies. the father will impregnant the mother again as soon as she has given birth. once the sons have reached 3 1/2 months old they will be sexually mature and impregnant the mum. the baby girls can get pregnant between the ages of 16-20 weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2012 Rehoming Challenge
We have well over 100 homeless bunnies at our rescue. Please we desperately need people to come forward and offer homes for them. We thank everyone who has applied to adopt and beg of you to empathise with our policies and work with us so we can home to all applicants, thank you
Our Rescue is based on a 1/3rd acre plot of land where bunnies have large natural habitat areas to live in.
Hi, I'm Caroline the founder of The Rabbit Residence Rescue where I started rescuing rabbits in 1996.
We are based on the borders of Herts, Cambs and Essex but are happy to deliver bunnies to new homes up to 3 hours away including Bedfordshire, Suffolk, London, Kent and more.
