Too Much BunnyMath!

Y'all know the saying 'breed like rabbits', right? Or more colloquially, fu--... nevermind.

The moral of this wild and crazy tale is that the saying is absolutely, horribly, adorably? and uncomfortably true.

In mid-October, I got a call from a friend doing TNR at a local shopping center. She shared a photo of a group of stray cats hungrily eating scraps cobbled together for them. ...and in the middle, chowing down right next to them, was a beautiful little brown bunny.

Now if your first thought is: brown! It's a wild rabbit! Believe you me, I was on the same page. But then I drove over to the colony to take a peek at him. And his handsome little rotund self was most certainly not wild at all.

This bunny, lovingly codenamed 'Patient Zero', turned out to be one of a dozen rabbits dumped and reproducing -- at the speed of rabbits -- in a trailer park behind the shopping center. What I thought was one fixable problem rapidly turned into a colony of many, many unfixed problems.

So I did what any good animal lover does, and called in reinforcements.

A month and change later, our team of bunny-loving bleeding hearts have managed to catch four of the twelve or so loose rabbits at this trailer park, with the support and gratitude of the community they're living in. We've trapped, wrassled, wrangled, and hand-caught because every time we think we have a plan, the bunnies cotton on (hah!) to our shenanigans, and elude us. Zero himself is still out there. Waiting. Watching. Spreading his handsome bunny genes...

But I digress. We considered ourselves hugely fortunate that we didn't manage to catch any pregnant rabbits. There was a minor scare-- but nothing came of it at the time.

Well. Until yesterday.

Our in-care population of bun went from four... to thirteen. Remember the opening line? Rabbits really, really do breed like rabbits. And now we have nine miniscule but healthy, beautiful and helpless little tots to:

1) raise;

2) fix;

3) adopt out.

That is a LOT of mouths to feed, and single mom Marsha does not have the funds to support a brood this big, no matter how many times she tells herself it's gonna be fine and she can do this.

Thankfully for Marsha, she has us. ...and thankfully for us, we have you. ❤️ We can't just stop trying to find Zero and his elusive cohorts. We have to catch him, AND set Marsha and family up for success. We've got the first part pretty much worked out-- but the latter? That takes time and money. And while we have a little bit of both... it's going to take a lot more to support this newly minted family.

Please support Team BunnySnatchers in our quest to save this colony, and Marsha's family. Every dollar makes a difference, and will ensure the best possible future for these incredible souls that were heartlessly thrown out in the cold.