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Christchurch Rabbit Rescue Christchurch Rabbit Rescue is a non profit rabbit rescue group (registered charity CC59971). We take in unwanted, neglected or stray rabbits.

We spay or neuter rabbits in our care, as well as vaccinate with Filavac and microchip. We can’t succeed alone, and need the support of community members like you to really make a significant impact. Learn more about our work and how you can get involved. https://givealittle.co.nz/org/christchurch-rabbit-rescue-1

A reminder that the Selwyn Pet Expo is on TOMORROW 🥰 We are super excited about it and can’t wait to see everyone! 🐰🐰
09/08/2024

A reminder that the Selwyn Pet Expo is on TOMORROW 🥰
We are super excited about it and can’t wait to see everyone! 🐰🐰

03/08/2024

We have picked up a rabbit from the Taylors Mistake area - if you are in this area and missing a rabbit, and can provide proof please come forward within the next 7 days or we will assume abandoned and we will take ownership by proxy.

We have not included any pictures to assist us with assessing authentic ownership claims.
We will require proof of ownership and identifying details before handing this rabbit over.

We're thrilled to announce that Christchurch Rabbit Rescue will be attending the first-ever Selwyn Pet Expo! 🎉Join us on...
31/07/2024

We're thrilled to announce that Christchurch Rabbit Rescue will be attending the first-ever Selwyn Pet Expo! 🎉

Join us on Sunday 11 August at the West Melton Community & Recreation Centre as we connect with fellow animal lovers and showcase our rescue's mission. Meet our adorable adoptable bunnies, learn about rabbit care and welfare, and discover how you can make a difference in the lives of these precious creatures 🐰

The Selwyn Pet Expo promises to be a fun-filled event with plenty of pet-related products, services, and activities. We can't wait to be a part of it!

Mark your calendars and bring your family and friends along. We look forward to seeing you there! 🤎

*Event Details:*
Date: Sunday 11 August
Time: 10am - 4pm
Location: West Melton Community & Recreation Centre

Hoppy Saturday, everyone! 🐰💥We will be at Animates Tower Junction this Saturday from 10am-2pm! 📍See you there! 🎉
21/06/2024

Hoppy Saturday, everyone! 🐰💥

We will be at Animates Tower Junction this Saturday from 10am-2pm! 📍

See you there! 🎉

Well Team Bun 🐰I woke up feeling a bit spicy this morning 🌶️ Why you ask? This crap! Can you believe we have been waitin...
16/06/2024

Well Team Bun 🐰

I woke up feeling a bit spicy this morning 🌶️

Why you ask?

This crap!
Can you believe we have been waiting YEARS for this, it’s nearly done and they want to STOP IT?!

The conditions I have seen rabbits in….being kept in storage containers, with no hay, no room to move, and legally nothing can be done because theres no legal framework that says rabbits need hay or space!!
I can’t even find words I’m so enraged.

So Team, tell Hon Andrew Hoggard what you think about this. I will post a template email in the comments. Expand on it as you see fit 😉

We need to stand up for our voiceless and vulnerable bun friends. They need us to be loud and make one hell of a fuss!

We are at Animates Vetcare NZ Tower Junction tomorrow 10am until 2pm Hop in for a chat 🥰
17/05/2024

We are at Animates Vetcare NZ Tower Junction tomorrow 10am until 2pm

Hop in for a chat 🥰

Happy Mothers Day to all the Mums out there 🩷 Whether you are human Mums, animal Mums or foster Mums, you all deserve ce...
11/05/2024

Happy Mothers Day to all the Mums out there 🩷

Whether you are human Mums, animal Mums or foster Mums, you all deserve celebrating today 🥰

This big little face marks a new milestone - all of Richards babies are now desexed 🎉 It’s taken a while, and possibly t...
07/05/2024

This big little face marks a new milestone - all of Richards babies are now desexed 🎉

It’s taken a while, and possibly taken some years off my life, but we are thankful to make it to this point! A big thanks to the wonderful team at At the Vets who are always there when we need them and are so amazing with our rabbity friends 🐰❤️🐰 we couldn’t do what we do without them!

Richards babies will all be available for adoption once their post op healing journey has ended 🌹

We don’t know whats in the water this year, but frankly we don’t like whatever it is. We have been quiet on the public f...
26/04/2024

We don’t know whats in the water this year, but frankly we don’t like whatever it is.

We have been quiet on the public front as bluntly we have simply been trying to keep our heads above water.

We are getting absolutely hammered with surrender requests as well as people abandoning their pets in public spaces, and grim welfare cases. Then on top of this, we cop shade like this for our processes.
This happens to us a lot and is only an example of one.

To address the main point:
We conduct home visits to ensure the home is the home they say they are. Any Joe Bloggs can pull an image off Google or Instagram of a lovely rabbit set up and pass it off as their own. We simply want to check that it is in fact the set up the home has.
We frankly could not care less about any of your life choices outside the rabbits living environment and are not there to even look at anything bar the rabbits living space. We remain respectful at all times and try to leave as quickly as possible to not hinder your day.

We rescue some of these rabbits from horrendous conditions, we are making damn sure they aren’t ever ending up back in the same conditions, or that we end up getting them back in a dire condition as happened with Fabio. We have zero interest in rescuing our animals twice.

If we were in the position of adopting, it would make us extremely uneasy if a rescue just handed an animal over to us without any checks or balances.
It should make others uneasy too.

Additionally, it irks us that the people that call us on doing home visits have no issue being a total stranger coming to our home. When the shoe is on the other foot however.

Another fun thing people often throw in our face is our adoption fee of $90.
Peoples favourite line is that it’s cheaper elsewhere. We don’t argue that you can get rabbits for less, however we do argue that $90 for a vaccinated, desexed and microchipped rabbit that lives in our homes so we are well versed on their personalities is a pretty good deal. Considering we pay over $100 for the vaccination alone, never mind the rest, we think our fee is reasonable. We also top up vaccinations prior to adoption to ensure the adopter doesn’t need to do this too soon.
When you factor in that we exclusively feed Burgess, and their hay is some of the best in the region, you could say we have one of the worst profit margins around, running at approx -567% on the conservative side. Stan is somewhere in the region of -2,853%. We are lucky we are a NFP charity, or those profit margins would’ve raised some eyebrows.

There is an added factor as well that we have dumped time and energy into learning about the home to recommend a best suited bun, to be met with this. Time and energy we don’t have much of. Time and energy we could have used on another application that has now had to wait in queue.

We are simply doing our best for the animals we are in charge of.
They depend on us to get this right.
One bad call by us can cost them their life or cost them a life time of misery.

We are not bad people.
We are not criminals.
Some might go as far to say we are okay people to deal with.
We are tired of defending ourselves time and time again when in most situations, we are the only ones fronting up for the rabbit in need.

We are only trying to do everything right for each life.

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Ft Delilah, one of the buns we have rescued this year.

02/04/2024

We have picked up a rabbit from the Lincoln area - if you are in this area and missing a rabbit, and can provide proof please come forward within the next 7 days or we will assume abandoned and we will take ownership by proxy.

We have not included any pictures to assist us with assessing authentic ownership claims.
We will require proof of ownership and identifying details before handing this rabbit over.

It’s officially a new tax year 🧾 Which means it’s receipt time for us registered charities! If you have donated to us in...
01/04/2024

It’s officially a new tax year 🧾

Which means it’s receipt time for us registered charities!

If you have donated to us in the last 12 months, please message us for a donation receipt 🩷 as an accountant, I seriously encourage everyone to do this!
You get 33% back, it’s a no brainer!

We simply need your legal name (as registered with the IRD) and your email address to process this! Please advise us if your bank name is a little different to help us identify your transactions faster ❤️

It also means that as a registered charity, the clock is ticking for us to upload our financial statements for the 2023-2024 year. Keep an eye on the Charities Register for all your favourite charities, as reporting on time and in a transparent manner are part of our obligations, as well as spending in a responsible manner directly toward the purpose of the charity.

Ours aren’t quite ready for upload considering it is Day 1 of the new Financial Year 🙈 but some highlights include that over 80% of our outgoings were spent directly on the rabbits (vet bills, food, and the like), and our outgoings were more than $10,000 more than our donations for the financial year 💔 we run entirely out of personal homes and fosters to ensure the gap between donations and expenses doesn’t get any wider than it already is, or it would’ve sunk us!

Heres a new, and better financial year! 🥂

We will be at Animates Vetcare NZ Tower Junction this Saturday 10am until 2pm 🩷 We will have our very special Easter Raf...
27/03/2024

We will be at Animates Vetcare NZ Tower Junction this Saturday 10am until 2pm 🩷

We will have our very special Easter Raffle with us, with the winner being drawn at 2pm 🐰 tickets can be purchased in store on the day 💸

Hop in and say hi 🐇

🐣 Easter raffle 🐣 We have been donated some amazing items for a raffle to help us with our crippling vet bills 💰Tickets ...
19/03/2024

🐣 Easter raffle 🐣

We have been donated some amazing items for a raffle to help us with our crippling vet bills 💰

Tickets are $5 each, you are welcome to enter as much as you like 🩷

Winner will be drawn on Saturday 30th March at 2pm at Animates Tower Junction. We will contact the winner by email or phone, and arrange shipping if required.

Included:
🌼 Burgess Excel Natures Blend
🎂 Topflite Timothy Cake Garden Goodness
🫐 Nibblots Berry
🕯️ CRR Candle
🥕 Lush Carrot Bubble Bar x3
🐇 Lush Follow the White Rabbit Bath Bomb
🐰 Lush Hot Cross Bunny Bubble Bar
👜 Bunny Basket
🍫 Lindt Bunny
💡 Bunny Headband with Lights
🧸 Special Edition Knitted Bunny with two sets of garments

A very special thank you to Animates Vetcare NZ Tower Junction who donated us the Burgess and Topflite, and a massive shout out to Westley's World who knitted the amazing bunny with our lovely, but rather irritating Richard in mind 🥹 agouti buns for life!

See below 👇
https://www.crr.org.nz/product-page/easter-raffle

21/02/2024

We have picked up a rabbit from the Riccarton area - if you are in this area and missing a rabbit, and can provide proof please come forward within the next 7 days or we will assume abandoned and we will take ownership by proxy. We have door knocked and left notes.

Please note we have had this rabbit groomed professionally due to severe matting which we have paid for and not seeking any reimbursement for.

We have not included any pictures to assist us with assessing authentic ownership claims.
We will require proof of ownership and identifying details before handing this rabbit over.

We have all the staff we need 🩷 thank you everyone for the support! - - There are still 40+ staff needed for Electric Av...
16/02/2024

We have all the staff we need 🩷 thank you everyone for the support!

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There are still 40+ staff needed for Electric Avenue so we are appealing for more volunteers!
Every shift helps us cover more vet bills - are you available to help?

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💥 Christchurch bun slaves 💥

We have an exciting opportunity through some very kind souls that will help us raise much needed vet funds 🤑 (not looking at you at all Richard 👀)

We are looking for people to work with us at ⚡️ELECTRIC AVENUE⚡️ on the 24th of February

The hours you work get donated to us! 🩷 the CRR team will be working as well, this is becoming an annual thing for us as it’s a lot of fun 🥰

One person working one shift will pay for the entirety of one of Richards babies vet work 😱 if we can get 6 people, we will have all of the babies vet work paid for! 💪

Work types include but aren’t limited to: bar loader, bar back, server and drinks runner 🥂 anyone volunteering should be prepared for the fact that the CRR team can talk some serious dribble 😅 you are also allowed to stay in the festival after your shift and enjoy the music 🎶

PM us if you are interested in helping us 😘

If you are evacuating from the fire - we can help with providing your pets with a safe place. Please send us a PM 🙏
14/02/2024

If you are evacuating from the fire - we can help with providing your pets with a safe place.

Please send us a PM 🙏

We are very lucky to be teaming up with Little Wolf Studio 🐺 Little Wolf Studio is a local bun slave and artist in Chris...
22/01/2024

We are very lucky to be teaming up with Little Wolf Studio 🐺

Little Wolf Studio is a local bun slave and artist in Christchurch who not only creates the most beautiful art, she also turns some into jewellery! 😱 she wanted to help us help more, what a legend right?!

One of the very first bunnies we ever adopted out, Harli, is the muse for some of these gorgeous creations 🐰 we think they’re simply beautiful! 🌻

All products available in our store have 25% donated to us 🩷 buying supports both us and a small New Zealand business!

Check out Little Wolf Studios beautiful bun creations 👇
https://www.crr.org.nz/shop

Tomorrow is looking….cute 🥵 I mean even right now is funA reminder that bunnies do not cope well in this kind of heat 😖 ...
19/01/2024

Tomorrow is looking….cute 🥵 I mean even right now is fun

A reminder that bunnies do not cope well in this kind of heat 😖 I’m not coping so well either!

It’s even going to stay over 20 degrees overnight tonight 🔥

Indoors with the air conditioning is your easiest and best port of call, however placing an ice pack in front of a decently sized fan can help tremendously! 🧊 Get creative with sheets and towels to create more shade 😎 pavers dug into the ground in the shade stay nice and cool as well

Good luck to all fur friends and humans!
I will personally be keeping the AC on all night and going straight from Animates to lie on the floor with the curtains closed 😰

We are at Animates Vetcare NZ Tower Junction this Saturday 10am - 2pm 🎉 Hop past and say hello to Fabio 🐰🤍
17/01/2024

We are at Animates Vetcare NZ Tower Junction this Saturday 10am - 2pm 🎉

Hop past and say hello to Fabio 🐰🤍

Introducing ✨Richards Babies✨ These little firecrackers are already 6 weeks old, so now Richard finally gets a break! We...
16/01/2024

Introducing ✨Richards Babies✨

These little firecrackers are already 6 weeks old, so now Richard finally gets a break! Well….only until our trip to the vet in the very near future ✂️

These guys are the BIGGEST 6 week olds I’ve ever seen 😟 they rival some of our adult wildies in size! So either Richards milk is laced with steroids, or they are going to be monsters 👹

There is a clear stand out - Socks. She is pure trouble and a Houdini as a side dish. The rest are just typical young bunnies. Socks is on a mission to test my limits on a daily basis 😐

Please remember these babies are not available for adoption, they have a long way to go before their vet work is complete and it is only once that is done and recovery has happened that we will be looking at adopting them out.

MetService has issued a Heat Alert for Canterbury today 🥵 with an estimated high of 31 degrees 🔥 Rabbits struggle in the...
12/01/2024

MetService has issued a Heat Alert for Canterbury today 🥵 with an estimated high of 31 degrees 🔥

Rabbits struggle in the heat, so take measures to ensure they are able to remain cool as cucumbers 🥶 bringing them indoors with the air conditioning is obviously the best and easiest - spending one day locked in a cage with the AC won’t kill them but heat stroke will!

Other ideas include:
Fans for air flow - Ryobi have a great battery one
Frozen icepacks
Plenty of shade
Pavers in the shade
Loads of water

Check on buns as frequently as you can, if heat stroke starts to kick in acting quickly can make all the difference. Most vet clinics are open today and After Hours Vet is available as well 🏥

Humans - don’t forget to take care of yourselves as well! Drink lots of water and slip, slop, slap and wrap! 💦

💥 Christchurch bun slaves 💥 We have an exciting opportunity through some very kind souls that will help us raise much ne...
11/01/2024

💥 Christchurch bun slaves 💥

We have an exciting opportunity through some very kind souls that will help us raise much needed vet funds 🤑 (not looking at you at all Richard 👀)

We are looking for people to work with us at ⚡️ELECTRIC AVENUE⚡️ on the 24th of February

The hours you work get donated to us! 🩷 the CRR team will be working as well, this is becoming an annual thing for us as it’s a lot of fun 🥰

One person working one shift will pay for the entirety of one of Richards babies vet work 😱 if we can get 6 people, we will have all of the babies vet work paid for! 💪

Work types include but aren’t limited to: bar loader, bar back, server and drinks runner 🥂 anyone volunteering should be prepared for the fact that the CRR team can talk some serious dribble 😅 you are also allowed to stay in the festival after your shift and enjoy the music 🎶

PM us if you are interested in helping us 😘

Merry Christmas from mine to yours 🤎🎄Who got a Christmas box and has found the secret surprise we didn’t publicise? 💕
24/12/2023

Merry Christmas from mine to yours 🤎🎄

Who got a Christmas box and has found the secret surprise we didn’t publicise? 💕

Well folks, thats a wrap! 🎁After 8 days of working from 6am til ~2am, we made it to the end. All packages that made the ...
19/12/2023

Well folks, thats a wrap! 🎁

After 8 days of working from 6am til ~2am, we made it to the end.

All packages that made the Christmas cut off should be hitting doorsteps by tomorrow or Friday - please be kind to your couriers, they are also hideously under pressure at this time of year and are pushing through delays as fast as they can.

Thank you to everyone for their patience, I’m only one person hand making every item of every order so theres only so fast I can move. Once the wheels come off, it’s very hard to get them back on 😵‍💫

This year has been tough.
Frankly, it’s crushed my soul and spirit more than once. I saw and dealt with things that will haunt me for the rest of my life. I lost friends and family - both human and rabbit. I lost sleep. I lost time. I lost faith in humanity. I lost the will to carry on. But carry on I did. Though repeating 2023 is most certainly off the cards.

There were some positives. Some of the long termers found the best furever homes one could ask for. Friends were made. Breakthroughs happened with some of the permanent residents. Charles didnt die that fateful day.

We will be taking some time away from the inbox to recuperate and spend some time with the buns.

Merry Christmas 🎄

We will be at Animates Vetcare NZ Tower Junction this Saturday 10am until 2pm 🐰 We are very blessed that a super lovely ...
13/12/2023

We will be at Animates Vetcare NZ Tower Junction this Saturday 10am until 2pm 🐰

We are very blessed that a super lovely human has purchased a Christmas Bunny Box for us to raffle 🙏 raffle tickets will be $3 and can only be purchased in person 🥰 this is the last opportunity to secure one!
We are able to ship the box to the winner if you aren’t able to collect after the draw on Saturday 🩷

Gotta be in it to win it 🏆🥇

We are unfortunately behind schedule for Christmas box despatch. Things have spiralled including having to support feed ...
12/12/2023

We are unfortunately behind schedule for Christmas box despatch. Things have spiralled including having to support feed some of Richards babies and thinking we were going to lose one 😢

We are working as fast as we can, clocking 14-15 hour days, and are anticipating an approx 1-3 working day delay, all boxes are on an overnight ticket. Some boxes may despatch before tracking email makes it to you.

If you are unable to manage the delay, please reply to your order email and we will refund you (the order number helps us locate the order faster)

We apologise for this and we are doing everything we can to get back on track

Have you seen Givealittles exciting give away - The Givealittle Elf Hunt? By finding the Elf, you can nominate us to win...
08/12/2023

Have you seen Givealittles exciting give away - The Givealittle Elf Hunt?

By finding the Elf, you can nominate us to win $2,000 😱

Winning that would mean we are immediately over halfway to paying for all the expenses of Richard and Richard Jnr x6 🥰 it would take a lot of stress out of our lives! (Though it is hard to be stressed when Chonk #1 and Runt #1 are so adorable)

👇 Click the link below to read more and find the elf! 👇

https://givealittle.co.nz/help/help-support/the-givealittle-elf-hunt

No good deed goes unpunished as they say 🙄 Earlier in November, a friends mum messaged to say a domestic rabbit had appe...
30/11/2023

No good deed goes unpunished as they say 🙄

Earlier in November, a friends mum messaged to say a domestic rabbit had appeared at her industrial work place. Due to location, it was fairly obvious what had happened to the poor bun, unless suddenly rabbits have learnt teleportation.

Enter Richard.
Named because, man, we were a complete dick about being captured.

Richard couldn’t stay there. Clearly being a previously domestic pet, coupled with the industrial nature of the workplace, Richard had to get in the crate.

6 people and 3 hours later, Richard was at my house.

This story is disappointing enough already.
Turfing out a domesticated animal to fend for themselves is beyond the pale as it is.

Richard had different plans for me however.
And along came 6 of those different plans.

Yes - Richard is still Richard, even if gender norms would dictate she should now be Richelle. Shes still a dick.

To whoever left Richard out there:
Shame on you.
Shame on you that you abandoned her.
Shame on you that you didn’t have her desexed.
Shame on you that now not only am I on the hook for her vet bills, I’m now on the hook for a further 6. A decision you thrust on me born from your own poor decisions.
Shame on you for taking the cowardly way out of this situation and dodging the responsibility, leaving it for others to clean up.

I’m completely devastated that just 33 days shy of CRRs third anniversary, we had our first babies born in care. I didn’t leave her out there, theres nothing I could have done to change this, yet its me whos wracked with guilt that this has happened.
I’m gutted Richard had to go through this.
I’m scared for her knowing how many mum buns pass from the toll it takes on their little bodies. She was so thin when found.
I’m stressed knowing in 12 weeks time I need to have separate spaces for all these babies when I’m already drowning in the annual pre-Christmas pet dump.
I’m upset that instead of the previous guardian being a responsible pet owner who desexed their animal, I’m now looking at a minimum of a $3220 vet bill to do the right thing.
I’m pi**ed off in 2023 this is even a reality I need to live through. We have never had such easy access to information in all our previous centuries, yet we still do crap like this to animals.

👏 DESEX 👏 YOUR 👏 PETS 👏
AND STOP DUMPING THEM.

Today is the 🚨LAST DAY🚨 to order your bunny box for this year! Don’t forget one lucky box gets a free pawtrait from Pick...
29/11/2023

Today is the 🚨LAST DAY🚨 to order your bunny box for this year!
Don’t forget one lucky box gets a free pawtrait from Pickle's Pawtraits 🥰

🎄 CHRISTMAS BUNNY BOX 🎄

The present for your bun is back! 🎁
100% of profits goes to CRR to continue to save the world one bun at a time 🌏

These are only available to order until end of day 30th November ⏰ and strictly preorder only. If you haven’t ordered by then, you will miss out! 😧

Included is:
A willow wreath 🌳
Bluebelles Bunny Bakery Christmas treats 🍭
Special Edition CRR Christmas candle 🕯
Limited Edition CRR Carrot Snuffle Mat 🥕
Handmade CRR Christmas Tree Carrot Decoration🎄
Dried fruit medley 🍎🍐

One randomly selected box will have a VERY special Golden Ticket included 🎫 this ticket entitles the lucky recipient to a Pawtrait from our lovely friends at Pickles Pawtraits ❤️

You also have the option to add one of our handmade bunny beds at a discounted price 🛌

All boxes will be dispatched on 12th December 2023 🚚

Please see below to purchase 👇
https://www.crr.org.nz/product-page/christmas-bunny-box

Stuck on a Secret Santa gift? 🎄 Our candles are now available in jars 🥰 An easy, gender neutral gift + all your favourit...
26/11/2023

Stuck on a Secret Santa gift? 🎄

Our candles are now available in jars 🥰

An easy, gender neutral gift + all your favourite scents (plus some new ones) are available! 🕯️

Check them out below 👇

https://www.crr.org.nz/product-page/jar-candle

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