All this week rescues up and down the country are tring to show how important it is to look after rabbits properly – and to ALWAYS REMEMBER TO RESCUE DO NOT BUY – no matter how tempting it is.
Rabbit Awareness Week
Can you give a home to an abandoned rabbit?
A hutch is needed for security but all rabbits need their freedom EVERYDAY for as many hours as possible.
With Rabbit Awareness Week kicking off on Monday, 26 April, we are hoping to find new owners for a number of rabbits found abandoned over the Easter period.
More than 20 rabbits have been found since the beginning of March according to just one national rescue – this doesn’t include all the hundreds of others throughout the country. At least one every 24 hours will be found. This is out of the hundreds who have been reported abandoned already this year.
Rabbits throughout Yorkshire (and all the U.K) are now in need of loving new homes to help them make a fresh start.
• Take a look at just some of them in our rehoming pages.
• Or use our pet search facility at the bottom of this post to find rabbits for adoption near you
Caring for rabbits
Rabbits are very sociable animals so we would like to rehome them in pairs, or to a family which already has rabbits. However, we recommend that they are neutered to prevent unwanted litters.
They need a large hutch which is big enough for a rabbit to stand up in and either a very large run that is attached that they can come out into 24 hours a day, a large run in your garden or ideally a large rabbit proff garden or area that is fenced off that they can run and jump in (which rabbits love to do especially at dusk – brilliant to watch!) You can find out more about the care that rabbits need here.
Rescues
Selby Animal Sanctuary – Scalm Lane, Hambleton, Near Selby, North Yorkshire, Y08 9HZ
Tel: 01757 228216
