Heart of Sylvester sanctuary

18/03/2024

Nasu and her every morning routine after breakfast = t***y scratch. 😅🥰
Nasu is a meat farm survivor.
Please go vegan for the animals.

14/02/2023

💔❤️

11/01/2023

Who's got the best and most helpful attitude?! Everyone has the ability to become a better bunny carer. It may be small adjustments or it could be big changes. Noone is perfect and all bunny lovers have made mistakes at some point in the past. What's important is to ensure our rabbits are happy now and in future. We have a duty to ensure their basic needs are met and permanent safe space is one of them.

13/12/2022

Today Albert left to rainbow bridges. Goodbye my sweet boy. Rest in eternal love and freedom.
I love you. 🌈❤️🐹

12/12/2022

A 'pet' is a convenience. Family is here to stay 😍. Do you agree?

27/11/2022

Respect animals.

Sentenced to life for a crime they didn't commit...

I wake up early in the morning and look around sadly at the enclosed bare walls of my room. I get up and wash myself, ready for another day. As always there's something to eat. Now what? There’s no-one here for company or even to watch. I look around, eager to get up and move about. The door’s locked, I can’t get out. It’s so claustrophobic in here, I long to be free, to run around out in the fresh air. Here he comes, my captor, come to let me out? No, just passing by. I sit and wait. Bored. I wait some more. Lie down. Sit up. Lie down. Sit up. I’m restless. I can’t wait to get out. I sit and nibble at some food. Wait, here he comes again. Yes, let out into the yard. Freedom! (For an hour at least, anyway). It feels so good to finally stretch my legs and have a larger area to play in. Today I don't want to run, I want to explore. Then it's over, here he is to take me back. I don’t want to go back inside. I try to tell him, but he won’t listen, he doesn’t understand me. I have to return to my cell, I’m not allowed to stay out. Locked away again, all on my own. I’m so lonely sat here with nothing to do and barely any space to move. I lie down and relax for a bit, but I’m not tired yet. I want to go out again, but I can’t. What else can I do but lie here, try to make myself comfortable, stretch out as best I can, and drift off to sleep?

I’m a rabbit living in the average hutch, sentenced to life imprisonment for a crime I didn't commit. It doesn't have to be this way. Just because I can’t talk, doesn’t mean I don’t matter. I have feelings, I’m a living and breathing creature that deserves a happy and fulfilling life too. Yes, something bigger than a cell costs more but I’m not just a rabbit, I’m part of the family. I have only one chance at life, just like you, so please give me the best life you can. All life should be valued, no matter how small. We rabbits have been misunderstood for far too long. Enough is enough, the time for change is long overdue. Just because people are used to seeing us living in these small cramped conditions, it doesn't mean that’s how it should be. Help me, you can make a difference, please don’t sentence me to a miserable life. The assumption is 'my rabbit rarely runs', that's true, just like you rarely run. But you can, if you want, I can't if I'm in prison...

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18/11/2022

Who are they fooling?! Certainly not us!

16/11/2022

As her litter of babies is dispatched to the pet shop, she is left behind to produce more. Please don't fuel her slavery. Don't pay for her misery. Don't buy her babies.

09/11/2022

To the bunnies who were not rescued in time this year. We are sorry. We won't forget you. 💔

02/11/2022

Gut stasis is one of the most serious conditions a rabbit could have, and it deserves to be taken seriously by both the owner and veterinary staff. Because there are many possible causes (many of them external to the gut itself), it must be highlighted that it is a symptom and not a final diagnosis....

01/11/2022

Rabbits are vegan. They don't hurt anybody. We humans have that choice too. If we treated all animals with respect and compassion instead of hunting them, exploiting them, killing them, breeding them, eating them, farming them, experimenting on them, wearing their fur, wearing their skin, using them for entertainment, you name it, the world would be a much better place, not just for them but for us and for the planet too.

24/10/2022

Teach your children respect for animals. Teach your children that animals are not ours to breed and keep captive for our entertainment. It is not fair on them. They are not toys. Animals should be free, not forced to breed in captivity etc.
If you take your kids to a workshop organised by a pet shop, they will teach them the opposite.
Be the responsible parent. Be the one who genuinely cares about animals.
If you plan on adopting animals from a rescue, then great! Your choice, your responsibility and your children will learn that there are animals who need homes.