LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Easter is just a month away and the Animal Foundation is hopping in to help a rabbit rescue. Like unwanted dogs and cats bunnies also continued to be dumped throughout the valley.
“Everywhere you look, you’ll see a rabbit and they’re quickly multiplying,” explained Kelsey Pizzi with the Animal Foundation after viewing a rabbit dumping ground in the Northwest Las Vegas Valley.
There are dozens of bunnies, best guess on the current number as they continue to multiply like rabbits: about 150. “We’ve been trying to feed them to keep them healthy so we can rescue them…They don’t have survival skills. Ones that are white or lighter colored are easy targets for coyotes or owls,” shared Dave Schweiger, founder of Bunnies Matter, the only rabbit rescue in Las Vegas.
Schweiger comes to the dumpsite to feed the domestic rabbits and has even set up temporary shelter for them. He would take them all in, but their rescue is full with 70 rescued rabbits. “We’ve gotten so many surrenders this year. Last year…Other people see these bunnies here and they have a bunny and they want to get rid of it. They dump it here too,”
Schweiger revealed. “You see the reality of the situation and we knew we had to help. We’re going to be taking them in, in waves so that we have the capacity and the space to care for them,” Pizzi stated.
Though the Animal Foundation is also constantly battling capacity issues with hundreds of dogs and cats, they too now want to help these bunnies taking in 13 of them for now and planning to come back for the rest. “It’s much very much a storm situation where it rains, it pours. We’ll go months without having a lot of them and then all of a sudden, we’ll be overwhelmed like this,” reported Andrew Findley, Public Training Supervisor with the Animal Foundation
The Animal Foundation is spaying and neutering each animal and then putting them up for adoption.“People like to think of rabbits as kind of like a window pet that you might just watch, where in reality they’re very social. They want to be part of your family…They bond very easily to not only other rabbits but humans, and they can even bond with cats and dogs as well,” Findley told FOX5.
Here is a link to look at the adoptable rabbits at the Animal Foundation: Adoption Search | The Animal Foundation
If you are interested, you can go to Animal Foundation to do a meet and greet.
Keep in mind: rabbits live for about 8 to 12 years, are best for ages 6 and up, and because they are a specialty pet, vet bills can be expensive.
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