Emergency animal rescue network ACTIVATE
UPDATE: it looks like someone in the area who works with the rabbit rescue may be able to foster her. We will keep you posted!! If you do know of anyone who would give her a forever home, PLEASE still contact us!
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So, we have acquired a temporary rabbit.
Someone had taken her into the reptile store, and told the owner to feed her to a snake. >_< Said owner has snakes easily big enough to nom the bunny, but was loathe to feed what has at some point obviously been a well-loved pet to them.
She's friendly and cuddly and fluffy enough that even I, who grew up thinking of rabbits as food, think she's pretty damn cute. And she's *incredibly* good-natured. The store owner gave her to us for free, complete with one of his feeder rat cages. We took her home, cleaned out his rather filthy cage and gave him food and water - she's currently on our balcony.
But we can't keep her. We have NO space, with us and two cats and the dragon and soon a corn snake. She can't stay out on the balcony long-term, certainly not in Canadian weather (too hot and then too cold). We're in touch with animal rescues, but because it's just after the day when everyone in Montreal moves (July 1), they're inundated with abandoned animals. The exotic animal vet (here rabbits are exotics apparently, wtf) are also on the case.
So please, PLEASE, if you know ANYONE who might take her, let us know. Please spread the word - feel free to link to my post, or to jasmine_koran's post. Because this is such a sweet, good-natured animal, and she's had a horrible time, and she deserves a proper home.
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So, we have acquired a temporary rabbit.
Someone had taken her into the reptile store, and told the owner to feed her to a snake. >_< Said owner has snakes easily big enough to nom the bunny, but was loathe to feed what has at some point obviously been a well-loved pet to them.
She's friendly and cuddly and fluffy enough that even I, who grew up thinking of rabbits as food, think she's pretty damn cute. And she's *incredibly* good-natured. The store owner gave her to us for free, complete with one of his feeder rat cages. We took her home, cleaned out his rather filthy cage and gave him food and water - she's currently on our balcony.
But we can't keep her. We have NO space, with us and two cats and the dragon and soon a corn snake. She can't stay out on the balcony long-term, certainly not in Canadian weather (too hot and then too cold). We're in touch with animal rescues, but because it's just after the day when everyone in Montreal moves (July 1), they're inundated with abandoned animals. The exotic animal vet (here rabbits are exotics apparently, wtf) are also on the case.
So please, PLEASE, if you know ANYONE who might take her, let us know. Please spread the word - feel free to link to my post, or to jasmine_koran's post. Because this is such a sweet, good-natured animal, and she's had a horrible time, and she deserves a proper home.