BlueFrog
Well-Known Member
Norway has one of the more dramatic rescue stories I've encountered - one of those that makes me immensely grateful for the role of shelters in our society.
Norway's owner went into her burning apartment to retrieve her two rabbits after the meth lab located in the apartment below exploded. She was outside at the time but was not going to allow her bunnies to burn to death. Three days later she brought them to a large open-intake shelter, with the clothes on her back still reeking of smoke and having to surrender her bunnies because she still had no place to live.
As you might imagine, the staff and I made transferring these particular rabbits to a no-kill facility a priority. The great folks at the Humane Society of Central Illinois took both in, and adopted out the second rabbit (who was not bonded to Norway) almost immediately.
Poor Norway has been overlooked for something like ten months now. It's a pretty cushy place to be a shelter bunny, but this sweet guy deserves to have a real home again. He was actually the preferred bunny of the two by myself and the original staff due to his wonderful temperament, but the flashy bunnies have gotten adopted and he sits ... and sits ... and sits. At some point along the way he's grown slightly cage territorial but, I'm told, does not bite or injure anyone.
Won't someone please adopt this much-loved boy? It is Adopt-a-Rescued Rabbit Month, after all!
Please note I can't provide transportation or a shelter transfer for this bunny. He must go directly to a home. I don't know whether the shelter can arrange transport or not. It's worth asking.
Norway's owner went into her burning apartment to retrieve her two rabbits after the meth lab located in the apartment below exploded. She was outside at the time but was not going to allow her bunnies to burn to death. Three days later she brought them to a large open-intake shelter, with the clothes on her back still reeking of smoke and having to surrender her bunnies because she still had no place to live.
As you might imagine, the staff and I made transferring these particular rabbits to a no-kill facility a priority. The great folks at the Humane Society of Central Illinois took both in, and adopted out the second rabbit (who was not bonded to Norway) almost immediately.
Poor Norway has been overlooked for something like ten months now. It's a pretty cushy place to be a shelter bunny, but this sweet guy deserves to have a real home again. He was actually the preferred bunny of the two by myself and the original staff due to his wonderful temperament, but the flashy bunnies have gotten adopted and he sits ... and sits ... and sits. At some point along the way he's grown slightly cage territorial but, I'm told, does not bite or injure anyone.
Won't someone please adopt this much-loved boy? It is Adopt-a-Rescued Rabbit Month, after all!
Please note I can't provide transportation or a shelter transfer for this bunny. He must go directly to a home. I don't know whether the shelter can arrange transport or not. It's worth asking.
Good luck he is lovely.
