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13/09/2025

🐭 Welcome to Greatfield Small Animal Rescue 🐭
Proud partner of Small Pet Rodent Awareness Week!

Based in Worcestershire, we’re a small animal rescue dedicated to and specialising in rabbits, rodents, and domestic birds. We take in unwanted, neglected, and vulnerable animals from all over the UK, offering them safety, rehabilitation, and the hope of a forever home.

Greatfield started in 2020, after our founder was regularly asked to take in small pets by friends, colleagues and acquaintances. It quickly became clear there was a desperate need for a local rescue that understood the unique needs of small animals, and so, GSAR was born.

We’re passionate about helping animals and educating people. Every creature in our care is treated as an individual with love, patience, and respect.

📝 We’ve written a blog to kick off this week:
👉 https://www.greatfieldsmallanimalrescue.co.uk/common-reasons-people-surrender-animals-to-rescue-centres-and-what-can-be-done-to-help/
We’d love you to give it a read and help us spread the word 💛

Follow us throughout the week for care tips, awareness posts, and a look behind the scenes at life in a small animal rescue.

📍 www.greatfieldsmallanimalrescue.co.uk
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13/09/2025

How does your rabbit show their affection? Rabbits can be subtle with their emotions; here are some of the signs that your rabbit trusts you and likes having you around.

Rabbits don’t automatically like humans; they learn from experiences that people can make good friends. Rabbits that miss out on early socialisation or have bad experiences may be nervous and avoid people or even become aggressive to avoid interaction.

However, rabbits are always learning and can learn that interacting with people is a good thing, something to enjoy not avoid, through new positive experiences with people. Just sit quietly and let your rabbit come to you in their own time – and have something tasty ready as a reward when they do. Let me know if you’d like some posts on making friends with shy bunnies.

If you’d like to learn more about making friends or rabbit’s social interactions try my book Understanding Your Rabbit’s Habits (available from Amazon, Dolly's Dream Home Rabbit Rescue, Hoppy Pets and Rabbit Retail ).

12/09/2025

To celebrate SPRAW 2025, we're running a 15% off sale Sitewide!
This will run from 15/9 --> 1/10!
That's a whole 2 weeks worth of savings (including payday!)
A fantastic opportunity to try something new, treat your pet to something tasty, or just stock up on favourites!
Keep your eyes peeled for more SPRAWesomeness!

11/09/2025

Small Pet Rodent Awareness week is just around the corner!
Starting 15th Sep and finishing on 21st September, It's going to be a week filled with awesome info, competitions and activities!
This Year's theme is Health and Wellbeing. Keep your eyes peeled for our posts and ones we share from Rescues and other organisations that we follow!

11/09/2025

IS MY RABBIT TOO FAT?

A rabbit is considered overweight if the ribs and spine are hard to feel under a layer of fat, there are visible fat deposits (especially around the armpits, belly, or under the chin), or the rabbit has a rounded body with a lack of visible waist when viewed from above.
PHYSICAL SIGNS OF OVERWEIGHT RABBITS
✔️Difficulty feeling ribs or spine under the skin, or needing to apply significant pressure to feel them.
✔️Fat deposits visible or palpable around the tail, armpits, belly, or a large dewlap (the fold under the chin, especially in females).
✔️Saggy or bulging belly, or lumpy fat along the underside.
✔️Lack of a visible waist, and the back appears rounded or bulging when viewed from above.
✔️Difficulty grooming, an unkempt coat, dirty hindquarters, or trouble moving and hopping.
HOW TO CHECK AT HOME
✔️Place the rabbit on a solid, non-slip surface.
✔️Gently run hands along the side of the chest: ribs should be easy to feel but not prominent or buried in fat.
✔️Palpate the spine and hip bones: should be felt but not sharp or hidden by fat.
✔️Look for a slight waist behind the ribs from above; lack of defined waist suggests overweight status.
BODY CONDITION SCORE (BCS)
✔️The BCS uses a 1–5 or 1–9 scale, with “3/5” or “5/9” being ideal: ribs and spine are easily felt, covered by a thin fat layer, with a well-proportioned body.
✔️Low BCS (3/5): hard-to-feel bones, rounded/pear-shaped body, excess fat deposits—indicating overweight or obese.
WHY IT MATTERS
✔️Overweight rabbits are at increased risk for arthritis, foot sores, heart and liver disease, and grooming or digestive issues.
✔️If overweight signs are present, consult with a rabbit-savvy vet to plan safe weight management and rule out health issues. Regularly checking a rabbit’s body condition helps maintain a healthy weight for long-term wellbeing.
Donations needed (& appreciated) - go to our Linktree for links
Linktr.ee/rabbittracktrailrescue
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10/09/2025

Another Restock of some customer favourites!

🐹 Dandelion roll n nest - a Willow and seagrass hide filled with meadow hay and dandelion leaves and flowers. Perfect for smaller pets and those that like to gets tuck in!

⚽️🏐🏀 Trio of Fun Balls - a bundle of 3 balls - perfect for throwing around and nibbling on

🍕 Meadowgrass Pizzas - a solid Meadowgrass base, topped with a selection of dried Veg, no added binders or nasties.

All available and updated in our shop, just in time for SPRAW next week!

09/09/2025

Check out our new Article. It's all about choosing the Best Hay for your small Pets!

We all know Hay is the most important part of our Small Pet's diet. But with so many options available on the market, which one is best?

08/09/2025

Do Small Pets Need Pellets? 🐇🐭🐹🐀🐁🐾
Whilst I will elaborate further on this in an upcoming blog article (keep your eyes peeled!). The short answer is No, Rabbits, Guinea Pigs and most other small pets don't need to have their daily dose of heavily processed pellets to still lead a healthy life.
HOWEVER
To ensure that they still get everything they need, as outlined by FEDIAF and the NRC (the people who collate, compile and publish all the data for what constitutes a 'complete' diet for all animals), they would need to be fed such a large range of vegetables, Herbs, Grasses and FRESH Forage, that for many pet parents, it's just not feasible. 🥗
Dried forage is great, many would say an essential part of the typical small pet's diet, but there is so much nutrition lost in the drying process.

There are also species specific needs to take into consideration - Guinea Pigs require Vitamin C supplementation. Much of this will come from a specifically formulated pellet, the rest from fresh fruit and veg. If feeding a pellet free diet, they would need to have a closely controlled amount of vitamin C in their diet to compensate for the shortfall.
Exotic Small Pets like Chinchillas don't have access to the plants they would consume in their wild habitat, this means a pet parent wanting to feed a pellet free diet would need to be educated in what their nutritional requirements are, and then formulate a diet to meet those needs, whilst also ensuring it provides enough Energy (calories), Fibre and is not too high in sugar, anti-nutrients and not simply too voluminous for the poor pet to consume on a daily basis.

We always advocate for the most natural, minimally processed diet for all pets, but sometimes there is a need for those boring brown pellets, or a little bit of higher education to ensure that we don't cause more harm than good by trying to 'wing it'.

07/09/2025

Just had a nice big Restock!
Excel Guinea Pig Nuggets with Mint in both sizes - 1.5Kg and 3Kg
Selective Grain Free Rabbit Nuggets 1.5Kg
Excel Nature Snacks - Sunshine Snacks and Winter Berry Bakes
Selective Digestive Care Supplement Treats
Willow Spiral Toys
Willow Mega Pack
Pillow Wad Wood Shavings - 1.5Kg
Pillow Wad Eco-nest 3.75Kg
More on the way this week!
Get yours while stocks last!
www.biscuitspetpantry.com

06/09/2025

TRY THIS ! 🤩

06/09/2025

Did you know we offer FREE delivery on all orders over £20?
Simply add an item to your cart, and a tracker bar will appear, tracking your basket total until the free delivery threshold is met.
Finished your shop and still a few quid off?
Why not add a donation to one of the amazing rescues we work alongside?
We cover all processing fees, so 100% of your donation reaches your desired charity!

05/09/2025

It's FriYAY!!!! 🥳
May your weekend be filled with binkies, carrotinis and lots of snuggly naps 💕
-Maple Munch