Christchurch Rabbit Rescue

Thank you for everyones understanding while we took some time to process our oldest fur friend is no longer earth side. Grief is a strange beast who often smacks you harder than you expect. But the sun rose this morning as expected and with it comes the time we need to carry on. Heres to Ellie and the rest of Year of the Rabbit ☀️🐰

We will be taking a break to grieve the loss of one of our own. If you already have an appointment with us, we will confirm this the day before as usual. Thank you for your understanding at this time.

Who remembers Stan The Man? 🙋‍♀️ Well our very cool little dude reached a new milestone yesterday - HE IS CLEARED TO FIND HIS FUREVER HOME 🎉 Hes very excited about this prospect and hopes there is someone out there with a small white rabbit sized hole in their home for him 🥰 Get in touch if this is you 💕

Stan the man had his big day at the vets yesterday! 🦷 Incisors - removed ⚙️ Dental Xrays - complete 🍒 Neuter - complete 💽 Microchip - implanted He has taken this all in stride like the champ he is and was hooning back his noonie 🍌 and special raspberry within moments of being home 💕 A big thank you to everyone who helped us cover this, an unexpected intake with bills this high are hard to forecast and plan for but Team Bun™️ came through! After some well deserved recovery after a very full on 9 days and getting into his new norm, Stan will be on the hunt for his furever home 💝

A massive ✨THANK YOU✨ to everyone who donated towards Stans big day at the vet this week ❤️ The lucky boy is going to get to wake up on Christmas morning with a healing mouth and a lot of hope for the year to come 🎄 he has been enjoying diced up noonies this weekend with butt twitches for days 🍌 Little shocked mouth that so many people came through to help him in his time of need 🥰

Hi 👋 I’m Squirrel - I need a new family is that you? 🥺 I was no longer required at my previous adobe so now I’m waiting for someone to want to love me 😟 I am spayed, microchipped and vaccinated I’m a Very Good Girl™️ and love to chin you to oblivion 🥰 I would like a home that offers me Bun Feng Shui with good indoor outdoor flow, though I would prefer to be indoors with you 🫶 a husbunny would be a bonus, though he will need to be an older gentleman as I am already 4 👵👴

Here at CRR, we don’t discriminate 🚫 A bun in need is a bun in need. And we come to bat for the voiceless regardless of their fur colour or origins! 💪 One thing that stops us helping all the rabbits however is resources. Or rather the lack of 😔 Lack of space 🏡 Lack of funds 💰 Lack of food 🛍 Can you help us with one of these things? ❤️ Foster or adopt 💛 Donate 💚 Order some Burgess for us Without space, we aren’t able to take on any more lives. Without funds, we aren’t able to pay for vet bills. Without food, well - enough said. Help us save the world one bun at a time 🌏 Christchurch Rabbit Rescue TSB Christchurch 15-3976-0162689-00 https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/christchurch-rabbit-rescue-2022

Time to air some 🧺dirty laundry🧺 Rescue life is pretty grim most of the time. That’s just a fact of rescue. But what makes it REALLY grim? When we say to a potential home they need to make some adjustments to ensure a happy rabbit and they say “we’ll just go elsewhere” 🙄 I mean; never mind the sentient beings happiness - right? Just go get another one to live an unhappy life as we can’t possibly know what we’re talking about? How dare the animal welfare organisation put the animals welfare first? 😱 Rabbits need company - how would YOU like to be locked in a hutch outside by yourself for 20+ hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days of the year? Through winter and summer - alone? Would you like to have a friend? Or maybe be inside as part of the family? Rabbits are rabbits - many enquirers have completely unrealistic expectations of life with rabbits. We don’t send you resources to read to waste your time, we send them so you can be prepared for what life with a rabbit is ACTUALLY like - surprisingly nothing like that 10 second long video on TikTok that your child is obsessed with. We invest hundreds of dollars into every single rabbit, let alone the time, personal expense, tears, love, why would we send them from the fire to the fry pan? 🔥 We won’t even touch on the statistics of these “elsewhere” rabbits we then get asked to accept surrender of as 6 weeks later the family no longer want them 😑 No matter the species - if a rescue has asked you to make adjustments, think about WHY before rushing off to find someone else who will give you an animal no questions asked. Animal happiness perhaps might be why? 🤷🏼‍♀️ They’re not doing it to be assholes or to get their thrills for the week. We get absolutely zero joy out of turning down homes. We want all applicants to be amazing so our buns can find their furever families. But if you aren’t willing to make the changes, including readjusting you and your c

And that’s a wrap ✨ We want to thank everyone who has supported us in 2021 💖 it’s been a massive year with countless rabbits who have had their lives improved to become a life worth living, none of it possible without any of you ❤️ Heres to a new year 🐰

Thank you to all who sent messages of support during this time and showed understanding at our absence 💕 loss is always a difficult subject to cope with and always happens much too soon We are now back on board, but still honouring our December policy 🎄 Merry Christmas

An open letter to my owners : You took me on a long drive, far away from where we live. You put me out on the road, and drove away. I waited and waited, and looked for you but you didnt come. The wild bunnies hurt me, quite a lot. I have many wounds all over me from them trying to attack me. I sought refuge at the first house I could find for miles. They were kind to me. They left me out water and carrot. Another person came on a hot day. She lay on the gravel feeding me pellets, then bundled me up and took me away. Now a nice lady is looking after me wondering why you would leave me. She’s feeding me and tending to my sores, ensuring I’m in no pain. I gave you love, why don’t you want me anymore? Why did you leave me out there? The lady said if you don’t come get me then she will be my guardian until a new family comes to love me like I deserve to be loved This festive season, all the team at Christchurch Rabbit Rescue want is for people to stop dumping their pets. There are resources out there to help you. Please use them.

The rescue bun who started it all 🤎 No matter your situation in life, unconditional love from an animal will always be the best feeling in the world 🌏 Could the love of your life be one of our bunnies? 🐰❤️

Our 2021 so far ❤️

Christchurch Rabbit Rescue is a not for profit rescue 💸 that relies on donations (big or small) from people like you to continue their plight in rescuing, education and rehoming of beautiful rabbits 🐰 We are putting the call out for people like you to join the very small number of people who have pledged to regularly donate to help us keep our doors open 💛 The money raised so far has directly helped desex, vaccinate and microchip over 18 rabbits, and provide emergency vet care to name a few things 🏨 When you commit to donations like this you allow us to continue to budget for the costs of vet bills both expected and unexpected, feeding, housing and education ❣️ Regular donations can be made direct to our bank account 15-3976-0099384-00 The bunnies and everyone at CRR thank you

Toothy Tim wants to thank all the wonderful humans who donated towards his teeth ❤️ We hit our target in less than 5 days!! And wouldnt have been possible without all the generous people supporting us and Tim We will post an update of Tim once he has gained the weight he needs and recovered from his surgery (he doesn’t know about the ✂️🍒 part yet 🙊)