Unless your family is ready to devote 10 years to a pet, please skip the impluse to give a bunny or chick as an Easter gift. Instead, join the national movement - "Make Mine Chocolate".
Rabbits are a familiar symbol of the Easter holiday. In the days leading up to it, they appear on television commercials and packages of candy, and stores are filled with stuffed rabbits. It is no surprise that children beg their parents for a bunny of their own. Ill-prepared to care for these unique creatures, their "owners" often quickly tire of them. In the months following Easter, local humane societies and rabbit rescues are flooded with rabbits, former Easter gifts whose "owners" no longer want them. The unlucky ones are dumped outside where predators, cars, illness, and injury virtually guarantee an early death.
"Make Mine Chocolate" was started to bring awareness to the plight of rabbits given as gifts at Easter time.
If your family is ready to bring home a rabbit as a pet, please remember that they often live to 10 years of age. Please start your search at the shelter or rabbit rescue. HSHV has rabbits available for adoption now.
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In our area these rescues have many bunnies waiting for homes:
