🐇✨️ Wellington Rabbit Rescue is officially nine years old ✨️🐇
Thank you to everyone past and present who has supported the mission to improve welfare outcomes for companion rabbits in Aotearoa and beyond.
And an especially big shout out to our incredible fosterers, who make it possible for rabbits like Elska to know safety, respect, love, and joy 💕
Here's to surviving another year for the rabbits who need us most 🐰
💕 Vanilla and Buddy, enjoying a lazy afternoon outside.
These gorgeous girls were spayed recently and are now officially the last of Khoda's babies still available for adoption 🥰
Both girls are now six months old and looking for love. So if you have a lonely male bun who needs a companion, please hop into our inbox for a chat!!
🐇 All WRR buns are desexed, vaccinated with Filavac, microchipped, and registered on NZCAR.
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Due to Buddy's long-coat, she will require a predominantly indoor home with humans who are willing and able to commit to her additional grooming needs 🪮
🐰 Baby Elska wants to remind everyone that Animates Vetcare NZ Kilbirnie is still collecting donations for the bunnies, in-store, until August 4th!
So if you're heading out to get supplies this weekend, please head into Mahora Street and support the Kilbirnie team's efforts for rescue bunnies 🐇
✨️ Our Prize Draw is also running until the 5th! ✨️
Details linked in the comments below.
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Elska left her mum, Freyja, this week and went into a foster home of her own. We always hate it when the time comes to separate babies... We don't understand how Breeders can do it so easily 💔 Thankfully, both Freyja and Elska are surrounded by love and will be in good hands while we get them prepared for their future homes.
✨️ Final chance to grab something delicious and say hi to Hazel and Rogue (who have loved their playdate!!)
We're here until 2 pm!! ✨️
🐰 Piper wants to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who has offered to bake for the fundraiser event at Animates Kilbirnie this Saturday!! You're all amazing 💚
Freyja and her foster mum enjoying a late night Sunday snuggle while their babies sleep soundly in their beds 🐇
💕 Whenever a mother has been separated from her babies for a lengthy time, there is a small risk that she will not welcome them back. This adds an extra level of tension and complexity to cases like this. But as it turns out, we needn't have worried!!
Mumma was overjoyed at the sight of her baby and promptly got to work grooming and feeding her. Proving once again that intentionally separating domestic babies from their mothers at 4 - 6 weeks of age is not in their best interests. Rather, it is a ploy by greedy breeders who simply want to exploit their "stock" faster.
Anyway. We're exhausted. So we will leave you with this sweet reunion video from early this morning, and will provide a full update on this little whānau tomorrow.
At long last, Charlie and Titan are officially a couple!! 💕 🙌
Poor Charlie wasn't coping after the loss of her partner, and her family's increasing need to travel for work. Like many rabbits in her position, she had become fearful and overwhelmed. So when her family contacted us for help, we put our feelers out and found the handsome Titan; who had also lost his partner.
It took a long time for Charlie to trust them. But, her new family was determined to build a relationship with her. After eight long months, Charlie finally accepted love again 💗
She and Titan have each found a new sense of confidence, and it's clear from their constant grooming sessions that they're making up for lost time! We wish them and their family many happy years together 🐇
It's certainly been the day for smoothies!!
Even with all the bedroom doors open, the heat pumps running cold, and fresh icepacks on rotation in front of their own fans, the rabbit rooms at HQ passed 25°c today 🥵 We hate to think what could have happened if we hadn't taken these steps 🫠
Each rabbit also has their own cooling mat, as well as a frozen water bottle or icebrick wrapped inside old pillowcases. But with all these measures in place, the buns were still struggling to stay hydrated, so these smoothies were a welcome treat 🐇
We've included the recipe in the comments below!
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WRR offers shelter to at-risk rabbits, and advocates for better welfare outcomes in Aotearoa, NZ. We are 100% volunteer run. Thank you :)
