Save a Bunny

On July 15, Sanctuary Bistro kindly hosted a Benefit Dinner for SaveABunny and we are so grateful for the support and exposure!  Marcy, Red Rover and I all had a wonderful time.  (photos 1a, 1b, 2).  Thank you so much to the wonderful Bistro staff for the delicious food and for the support of our rescue!  SaveABunny Founder, Marcy Berman, has stated that it was some of the best vegan food she has ever tasted! We enjoyed meeting everyone at Sanctuary Bistro as well as the other diners.  For our guest blog post, we thought we would a brief background about what it’s like to have rabbits as family members for readers who are not familiar with them. Rabbits are smart, playful and social.  When people come to SaveABunny to foster or adopt a rabbit, we always start by trying to understand their expectations and find the best personality fit. Like dogs, cats and humans, all rabbits have different personalities.  Some rabbits (like Claude) love to snuggle and will sit in position for pets (I call this “the wedge”) until your arms are too tired to hold up.  Other rabbits (like Mystique) time out after a few minutes of petting and run off to work on their projects (they can be very project-oriented!).  Still other rabbits (like Peewee) delight in being “naughty” and will look into your eyes while they chew on something forbidden, and then binky (a bunny dance) with the thrill of it.  And most important, rabbits are smart and have complex relationships with all the humans in their lives and these relationships evolve over time. (photos 3, 4) Rabbits are the perfect companion for vegans.  Rabbits are the ideal companions for vegans!  Since rabbits are natural herbivores, this saves people time and  energy because you won’t need to defend your companion’s diet in online arguments.  Also, you can share many foods! Rabbit families always have fresh herbs in the fridge and if you ask your rabbit friend nicely, he or she may be willing to let you eat some! Most rabbits are incredibly neat. Rabbits have an acute sense of smell and some people theorize they wink their noses for even more effect sniffing capabilities.  As such, most rabbits tend to be fastidious about their surrounds and when spayed/ neutered will naturally use a litterbox if one is put out for them (in the place they prefer, in a corner by their hay).  They will also object if it’s not cleaned regularly so get to it, human! Rabbits make wonderful indoor companions.  Domestic rabbits are pretty different from their wild ancestors -- so much so that they can no longer interbreed with them.  As such, domestic rabbits have no particular desire to be outdoors, and in fact they typically prefer to be indoors, where they feel protected and safe.  Rabbits, like most other animals, thrive best when they have as much autonomy as possible, so the more space they can have, the more they can express their true selves.  Happy rabbits love to express their joy through dance (which we call a binky!) -- see some of the videos of Anderson Pooper, one of SaveABunny’s best dancers! An added benefit...rabbits smell wonderful.  Along with being neat, since rabbits eat naturally good-smelling foods (hay and green herbs), healthy rabbits smell wonderful.  Some people report their rabbits smelling like fresh flowers, like candy canes, and like a summer’s day. If only perfume companies could figure out the rabbit’s secret!  (photo 5) [Happy Ending Note: Red Rover was adopted!] Donate now: http://www.saveabunny.org/sponsor