Urgent: Turtle and Midnight are looking for love!

Turtle and Midnight have spent the last 12 months in a tiny cage by the side of the road, standing on 4cm of their own droppings and getting no play time. They have been terrorised by dogs and been given no care or love from anyone except the comfort they have given each other.

A kind woman, Mary, has rescued them and taken the scared little girls into her home. But she already has 2 rescue rabbits, other animals and is suffering from cancer. She has too much on her plate to take them in permanently but has done such a wonderful job so far.

We are looking for some kind, caring people to take the two girls in short term or long term and provide a safe indoor space and let them adjust to a more comfortable, secure lifestyle (not in a cage!)

Please contact Clare at bunnybooksydney@hotmail.com or call 0405175511

The Good Life....

From the Rabbit Welfare Association and Fund (UK) Campaign: A Hutch is Not Enough. Read more here.

NB: If you are to keep your rabbit outside in AUSTRALIA then make sure you thoroughly mozzie proof as we do not have a myxomatosis vaccination or cure.

A Hutch is Not Enough Campaign

Did you know it was the Victorians who first kept rabbits in hutches - a short term storage solution before the animals went to the pot?

We've moved on a great deal since then, but the habit of keeping rabbits in hutches has stuck.

Rabbits are not designed to live in a confined space. In the wild they cover an area equivalent to 30 football pitches. They're not designed to live alone either - wild rabbits live in large social groups, foraging, grooming each other and huddling together for warmth. Rabbits living alone experience high levels of stress.

Domestic rabbits are not fundamentally far removed from their wild cousins. They share the same need to run, jump, explore and share companionship with their own kind, so their accommodation must allow them to display these natural behaviours.

Read more about the specifics here at the Rabbit Welfare and Association Fund.

 

Steve Maxwell has got both rabbits and Pittwater mayor in a stew
RESIDENTS say hunting rabbits with a bow and arrow is an acceptable way to control the “feral pests” on the peninsula.
The community has come out in support of the “bunny slayer”, Steve Maxwell, with at least one resident calling on the experienced hunter to kill rabbits on their property.
Mr Maxwell took the rabbit plague into his own hands, shooting rabbits on private properties in Warriewood with a bow and arrow.
He made a video, titled Bunny Slayer, and posted it on YouTube. The footage included slow-motion replays on rabbits being hit and his children holding weapons and rabbit carcasses.
RELATED NEWS: Rabbit Rambo leads one-man war against bunny plague

read the rest here.

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Farmer gets green light for rabbit farms (UK)

RABBIT farms will soon start operating in the UK after a Lincolnshire farmer was given the green light for six barns, each housing up to 1,000 animals.

Farmer Philip Kerry applied to set up barns at various locations across the country and says he could be up and running within nine months.

But the RSPCA said it had ‘serious concerns’ about the conditions for rabbits in battery farms, particularly the amount of space they were given.

Read more and please read the comments and state your own opinion!

Hurled from a moving car, the rabbit who lived to hop again

IT IS a barbaric act of animal cruelty that has disgusted animal rescue staff.

Ebony the rabbit was hurled from a moving car window by an owner who did not want her anymore.

Astonishingly, the rabbit was not seriously injured.

However, it is an act which doesn't surprise staff at Hull Animal Welfare and one of several cases of dumped rabbits which has left the South Cave trust now overflowing with small animals.

Read full article, here.

Help get animal-tested products off the shelves!

No one wants to think they are supporting animal testing when they use a face cream or put on makeup. But you might be surprised to learn that many popular brands in supermarkets and pharmacies in Australia have actually been tested on animals.
Testing cosmetics on animals is illegal in Australia. But this law doesn't stop products being tested overseas before being sent here for sale. Confusing for consumers and devastating for animals suffering in labs overseas.
The European Union has introduced legislation that will ban the sale of any cosmetics that have been tested on animals, no matter where they are produced, by 2013. This ban will have a major effect on manufacturers who will need to stop their cruel testing methods in order to continue selling their products in Europe.
There is no reason why Australia can't follow Europe's lead and support their policy by introducing a similar ban. Everyone -- Australians included -- should be able to shop for beauty products without the risk of supporting animal tests!

Please help urge the Australian Government to follow Europe's compassionate lead by banning the sale and import of animal tested cosmetics.

Sign the petition at ANIMALS AUSTRALIA, here.

GOVT, LIBS VOTE FOR INACTION ON ANIMAL WELFARE REFORM (ACT)

“The initiatives Labor and Liberal voted against today include:
• Licensing of cat and dog breeders, and mandatory standards for breeding operations
• Mandatory desexing of pets on point of sale
• Improved animal cruelty laws
• A new system of microchip traceability to ensure breeders are known
• Regulation of the advertising of animals for sales
• Outlawing selling of cats and dogs in pet stores, markets, fetes and other problem areas.


From the Greens. Read more here.

Support Tougher Penalties for Animal Cruelty and Neglect

TO THE HONOURABLE SPEAKER and MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED:

The petition of the undersigned draw attention to the House of Assembly Tasmania;

1. The widely held support for reform of the law to specify greater penalties to be applied to a person who is convicted of animal neglect or cruelty offences;

2. The widely held support for reform of the law to specify the mandatory loss of entitlement to keep or care for animals to be applied to a person who is convicted of serious animal neglect or cruelty offences.


Sign here.