One Million Bunnies

Spot the real bunny. 

Help send one million bunnies to Canberra in support of the myxo vaccine to be made available to veterinarians for their pet bunny clients. 


Some points to consider (via the Myxomatosis Hotline):

Domestic rabbits don’t survive in the wild for these reasons:

* they are caught again by their owners or others

* they are too delicate and also need specific food and care to live

* reliant on humans for their food and water – can’t find water – if they find a dog’s water the dog would kill them

* dogs kill them

*  run over by cars

* die from lack of shelter and stress

* long haired breeds fur would knot up and stop them being able to move about thus they would die

In England the vaccinated domestic rabbits have no impact on the wild rabbit population who continue to die from the disease

*Wild rabbits have built up some immunity already and the Calicivirus is quicker and more effective as a culling virus

Domestic rabbits are currently allowed to have the Calicivirus vaccine but not the Myxomatosis vaccine!

You can find info on the campaign @ Radical Rabbit.

If you would like to then donate any bunnies you find in op shops or re-use centres, please get in contact with me as I can use them at stalls to further the cause.

claredm@hotmail.com

Bunny Biz

The latest, from this week @ BunnyBook.

A great first week for BunnyBook kick started by the rescue of Leia from the pound, who is now recovering from illness at our nook. There are also 7 bunnies in the foster care section of the site and 3 in the pound. Please let me know if you can help.

Many new friends on the FB, which is super exciting. Bit by bit we will gather our strength.

Hot news this week was the feeding of live rabbits to a big cat rescue group in Tampa. You can read more about it on this facebook group:

Stop Big Cat Rescue Tampa  and others from using live domestic rabbits.

Some articles:

ABC Action News: Rescue Groups Collide over Feeding one animal to another

911AnimalAbuse.org: Public Response to Reporters and Big Cat Rescue of Tampa, Florida

We have also been signing the following petitions:

Animals Australia: Help end Cruel Animal Tests

Animals Australia: Get fur products out of Australia

and the following in favour of the myxomatosis vaccine to be made available in Oz:

GoPetition: Help Make the Myxomatosis Vaccine Available in Australia

GoPetition for Radical Rabbit: Save Our pet Bunnies From Myxo

        

  Photo courtesy of Radical Rabbit page

Lastly, some of the team from Vic's Radical Rabbit have popped onto the facebook, a very valuable addition. I strongly urge you to support their campaign to send one million toy bunnies to the minister in favour of the myxo vaccine. You can find the letter to use here.

Don't forget to add anyone that might be interested or is looking for a bunny friend. And don't hesitate to e-mail me with questions, ideas, articles, news, artworks, poems, photos etc.

bunnybooksydney@hotmail.com