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Rabbit Runaway Orphanage is Victoria's first no-kill pet rabbit rescue and a registered charity. All donations are tax deductible. We are faced with an urgent crisis of no funds in the bank to continue and vet bills of more than $10000. We have stopped taking in rabbits until we can pay these bills.
Who are we?
Behind Rabbit Runaway Orphanage is Judi & Bryce Inglis, struggling to care for the stray, dumped and unwanted pet rabbits across the state, with the help of a handful of dedicated volunteers. It is a 24hr, 7 day a week challenge with sleepless nights worrying about the animals and challenging days managing their care. We receive NO government funding
Example: Mrs Bunny: had a condition called floppy bunny syndrome and was paralised and could not move for days. We hand feed her every few hours day and night and raised her babies until she recovered and was able to take over her litter of 9 babies.
Our current challenges
Situation 1: Over the 2016 Christmas holiday period, when our vets were closed, many of the rabbits in our foster program ended up in animal emergency centre for treatment. As business resumes these bills have now been forwarded to us. We have over 100 rabbits in our special needs foster program and most of these bunnies are now in permanent loving homes. These rabbits came to us with existing conditions and would have been killed if they ended up in main stream rescues. The Orphanage pays for all the vet care for these rabbits.
Picture: Lia a Berlin Lia has dental issues and Berlin is blind in one eye.
Picture: Lavender Little Lavender struggled to survive and spent many nights at Animal Emergency
PIc: Jazz's babies: Harold, Madge, Phillip and John. John lost his battle to survive after many trips to the vet. His sister and brothers have survived with emergency care.
Situation 2: We also were faced with a huge number of pet rabbits coming in to us as councils and pounds and vets closed for the holiday period. Most of these animals would have be killed as there was no one there to care for them over the holiday period, if not taken in by us. We do not rehome any rabbits until their vet care is completed, desexed, vaccinated and microchipped.
Pic: Snickers was frail and underweight and was having seizures and nearly died. He has dental issues
Pic: Dewy and her kids. Dewy was surrendered with her newborn babies.
Situation 3: In August 2016 we rescued 17 rabbits from the suburb of Seaford, the result of an irresponsible owner allowing them to breed and populate the streets. All the females were pregnant. We fought to manage this influx and their health issues. The number increased to 30 which included the offspring. We still have 12 of these babies to desex, vaccinate and microchip as they mature at a cost of $3600.
Pic: Rocky and Rolo are two survivors from the Seaford rescue
Life is precious and these costs allow many buns to lead quality lives in loving homes.
These bunnies and many others are the ones you are helping and bunny hugs to you all for your generous support of our charity.
Who are we?
Behind Rabbit Runaway Orphanage is Judi & Bryce Inglis, struggling to care for the stray, dumped and unwanted pet rabbits across the state, with the help of a handful of dedicated volunteers. It is a 24hr, 7 day a week challenge with sleepless nights worrying about the animals and challenging days managing their care. We receive NO government funding
Example: Mrs Bunny: had a condition called floppy bunny syndrome and was paralised and could not move for days. We hand feed her every few hours day and night and raised her babies until she recovered and was able to take over her litter of 9 babies.
Our current challenges
Situation 1: Over the 2016 Christmas holiday period, when our vets were closed, many of the rabbits in our foster program ended up in animal emergency centre for treatment. As business resumes these bills have now been forwarded to us. We have over 100 rabbits in our special needs foster program and most of these bunnies are now in permanent loving homes. These rabbits came to us with existing conditions and would have been killed if they ended up in main stream rescues. The Orphanage pays for all the vet care for these rabbits.
Picture: Lia a Berlin Lia has dental issues and Berlin is blind in one eye.
Picture: Lavender Little Lavender struggled to survive and spent many nights at Animal EmergencyPIc: Jazz's babies: Harold, Madge, Phillip and John. John lost his battle to survive after many trips to the vet. His sister and brothers have survived with emergency care.
Situation 2: We also were faced with a huge number of pet rabbits coming in to us as councils and pounds and vets closed for the holiday period. Most of these animals would have be killed as there was no one there to care for them over the holiday period, if not taken in by us. We do not rehome any rabbits until their vet care is completed, desexed, vaccinated and microchipped.
Pic: Snickers was frail and underweight and was having seizures and nearly died. He has dental issues
Pic: Dewy and her kids. Dewy was surrendered with her newborn babies.
Situation 3: In August 2016 we rescued 17 rabbits from the suburb of Seaford, the result of an irresponsible owner allowing them to breed and populate the streets. All the females were pregnant. We fought to manage this influx and their health issues. The number increased to 30 which included the offspring. We still have 12 of these babies to desex, vaccinate and microchip as they mature at a cost of $3600.
Pic: Rocky and Rolo are two survivors from the Seaford rescue
Life is precious and these costs allow many buns to lead quality lives in loving homes.
These bunnies and many others are the ones you are helping and bunny hugs to you all for your generous support of our charity.
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