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Shelters In Crisis!!
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Shelters across the country are in crisis right now, overloaded with unwanted rabbits
who are in danger of being euthanized. Blame it on Easter "impulse purchases" or
simply the amazing reproductive capabilities of rabbits, but once again this year,
If you can find room in your home, please consider helping your local shelter or rescue by
adopting or fostering a bunny in need - you'll be saving a life. Literally.
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Easter And Bunnies Don't Mix
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Please Don't Give Pets As Gifts!!
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Shelters and rescues are inundated with animals that were given as
gifts to people who didn't really want them and don't know how to take
care of them. They expect this year to be no different, beginning on
the day after Christmas. Please don't give a live animal as a gift -
give a stuffed plush toy instead, or consider making a donation to a
rescue or shelter in someone's name as a gift. Just please don't give
a live animal as a gift - it requires a lifelong commitment to the
pet, and too often they get shortchanged. Thanks!!
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About Us
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3 Bunnies Rabbit Rescue, Inc. is an all volunteer not for 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.
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3 Bunnies Rabbit Rescue, Inc
P.O. Box 380605
East Hartford, CT 06138-0605
USA
info@3bunnies.org
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Rabbits are very social and playful animals, and they also need a lot of exercise every day.
Playtime is very
important for them both mentally and physically - they need to stretch
their muscles and move in ways instinct tells them to, and they need
to express their feelings and share with others (human or rabbit or
other pets). They love to play games and to play with toys. This is
something people who keep rabbits outdoors simply do not know, and is
one of many reasons rabbits should be kept indoors with the rest of
the family.
A bored bunny is a very unhappy bunny!
Knowing this also helps to (hopefully) protect the furniture and woodwork
by giving the bunny something else to occupy its mind and destroy.
Any toy rabbits destroy or throw around are the ones they like the most!
- Rabbits need toys and playtime distractions to keep their minds busy
- Rabbits enjoy playing with other rabbits, humans, and other pets
- Rabbits respond to an invitation to play - you just have to learn
how to invite a rabbit to play a game, and how your rabbit invites you
(perhaps nipping your ankle and running away, or taking something of
yours and hiding it, or playing hide and seek, etc)
- Rotating your rabbit's toys helps keep interest in them (when your
rabbit gets bored with a toy, swap it with another one and put it
aside to offer as a "new" toy later on)
- Rabbits have a sense of humor and will even play practical jokes on you -
don't be surprised to find your car keys in the rabbit's water bowl if you're
not giving him/her enough attention

For toys to be safe for your bunny, they must be untreated (ie, not
painted or otherwise finished, no colored inks except soy-based, etc)
and you must also watch to see which ones they play with and which
ones they chew - you don't want them swallowing plastics.
Some things rabbits may find amusing to play with: (make sure these are all untreated)
- Cardboard tubes from paper towels or toilet paper (also try
stuffing some hay in the tubes - what's known as a "hay bomb")
- Old telephone books to shred
- Cardboard tube used for post foundations to run through and hide in
- Cardboard hidey-boxes (cut entrances in two locations in a box
large enough for the bunny to fit inside of)
- Ball with a bell inside
- Apple twigs
- Small pieces of untreated wood to chew on (except for aromatic woods
like pine, cedar, etc)
- Willow baskets to shred
- Stainless steel measuring cups to throw around
- Stainless steel spoons to throw around
- Tin cans (no sharp edges)
- Oatmeal containers
- Hand towels, bath towels - to bunch up and spread out and generally
arrange - watch for loose strands that might wrap around a paw and
cut off circulation!!
- Golf balls
- Small cardboard boxes to chew and toss around
- Paper bags (especially stuff with fresh hay and tied off with twine)
- Parrot toys
- Dried out pine cones
- Downey balls (clean, of course)
- Newspaper (no color)
- Baby rattles to toss around
- Wooden blocks to toss around
- Metal bowls to toss around
- Key-ring with keys to toss around
- Lids from jars to toss around
- A metal or plastic slinky
- Plush bunny to groom and sometimes pounce
- More coming soon...
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