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3 Bunnies Rabbit Rescue, Inc. is an all volunteer non-profit organization dependent on donations to help us rescue unwanted domestic rabbits and educate the public on rabbit care. We are a network of foster homes located in New England and New York.

3 BUNNIES ADOPTS TO INDOOR HOMES ONLY!!

Adoption donations: (to help with spay/neuter and other expenses)

$70 single
$120 pair
Online adoption application

The primary goals of 3 Bunnies are:

  • To rescue abandoned, unwanted, and abused rabbits without prejudice to age, gender, breed, type, or other issues; to provide foster care; to spay and neuter; to provide medical and rehabilitative care; to find permanent quality indoor homes for them;
  • To educate the public and assist humane societies, animal control officers, and other rescues, in teaching proper rabbit care to the public;
  • To reduce, primarily by public education, the number of rabbits abandoned at shelters and / or turned loose when no longer wanted.

3 Bunnies Rabbit Rescue, Inc
P.O. Box 380605
East Hartford, CT 06138-0605
USA
info@3bunnies.org

Daves's Soda & Pet City
Come visit Dave's Soda & Pet City
151 Springfield St
Agawam, MA 01001

Dave's graciously helps promote rabbit adoption by supporting 3 Bunnies Rabbit Rescue, Inc.'s efforts to save rabbits in need and find them loving adoptive indoor homes.

Explosive Shedding

Just For Fun   Did You Know?  

This one just begs for a caption and I can't resist...


Rare Form Of Shedding Finally Proven True!

This stop-action image shows a very rare form of shedding that few rabbits are known to do, and is referred to in the vernacular as "exploding" or "explosive shedding" (the technical term is "hypervelocitous defollicurization"). It has only rarely been witnessed and was considered to be an urban legend, until this image was captured on video for the very first time. With two rabbits simultaneously exploding, it is now theorized that the trigger is pheromonal or otherwise olfactory in nature. This image shows two short-haired rabbits shedding their winter coats in preparation for warmer weather. The entire process takes about a millisecond (1/1000th of a second).

Using a digital video camera feeding 1000 frames/second to a remote computer, we were able to capture this image as they are in the middle of simultaneously completely shedding their entire coats in preparation for a seasonal change in temperature. The fur has been known to reach speeds approaching 1000 feet per second (LIDAR measured this event with a top speed registering 688 Mph) and can embed itself in solid objects such as wood and even cement. This bench was mostly destroyed during this event, as was the background latticework, and the ground beneath the bench actually had small craters lined with pressure-solidified fur just after this image was captured. The camera was also destroyed by the flying fur and resulting shockwave, and we are still trying to get an image of these two rabbits with their summer coats (very short fur).

An unpredicted and untold side effect of this method of shedding, which contributed to the notion that such a phenomena was but an urban legend, is that it is also very loud. No one who ever claimed to have witnessed "explosive shedding" ever said anything about the sound or the damage caused in the immediate area. It basically makes its own thunder as the high-speed fur creates a very low pressure system at the center which sucks the higher pressure air surrounding it back to the center, and the collision of the much higher-pressure air releases approximately 110 dB of sound pressure. SPL (Sound Pressure Level) measurement of this event showed a maximum of 108 dB at exactly one meter.

The lack of more widespread accounts of this method of shedding is now believed to be due to the fact that such witnesses may have been gravely injured or killed by the flying fur or subsequent shockwave, and thus unable to describe it to anyone else. It is also possible that the shockwave (which precedes the actual sound pressure) may have caused the destruction of the inner ear which prevented any witnesses from actually hearing the event.

Special thanks to Dulci & Lucia for allowing the camera and tripod to so rudely just stand so close to them and stare at them all day. Such nerve.


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