Alright, I am going to narrow it down to the best ones, but we have so many dumps and abandonments *Sigh*
Babbitty Rabbitty is a celebrity bun, being featured often on the news, on Canada's Got Talent and in many newspapers, but he had quite the beginning.
Back in 2006, we were aquantinces with a breeder, who raised Holland Lops and while Babbitty was a "good rabbit", he was far too energetic for the show table so she decided to cull him. She had two ways of culling rabbits, beating them off a work bench or sending them with the UPS guy who had a Boa Constrictor. Being a small 6 week old baby, he was small enough for the Boa so he was destined for snake food until we scooped him up, along with the other bun destined for the snake that was later adopted out, mere hours before he was due to go to the snake.
He is the hopping definition of a rescue bun turning around and doing something amazing. He is a performer and loves the attention he gets.
Wallaby was a rescue bun from a lady up in Edmonton. He was living outside in a metal cage and he tipped over his water dish, so it literally froze him to the wire of his cage by his ears and feet. When he was found, he was torn to shreds from panicking and ripping the frozen flesh away (His feet look pretty much normal now but his ears still show the frostbite on the edges). He is now a very spoiled, happy, loving pet of ours
Buttercup, another rescue we kept, came from a family that kept her, her mother and a liondhead doe outside in their backyard, able to escape the fence and wander the neighbourhood. They were fed dog food and an unhealthy amount of fruit, so Buttercup was obese when she came to us. Buttercup's mother, Thumper, had been previously attacked by something and had broken numerous bones and been allowed to heal unnaturally, so she was permanently crippled but still mobile. We do not know what did it to her, but the family talked about how cool it was when the owls would come perch on the fence and watch the rabbits in the yard.
Ty, a bun that is not as quite as glamorous as Babbitty but still a major success story. A friend of ours in Edmonton in the rabbit community got a call from a family that had gotten an Easter bunny the year before and were tired of him, so if he wasn't picked up by someone in an hour he was going to be left in a local park. With Ty's love of dogs, I can only imagine how long he would have lasted after running up to one. Needless to say, we got him from the friend.
Kit and Kat, who spent two days without food inside a Boa Contrictors cage at just 3 weeks old. A neighbour got them because he wanted to see his snakes eat live food, but "unfortuanatly" neither of his snakes would eat them so he wanted them gone. When I went over to his house to pick them up, Kat was actually sitting on the snakes head!
