Always Sunny Sanctuary and Rescue

07/05/2025

Thank you all so much to everyone who donated yesterday and today. We needed it so badly and you’ve gotten us into a much more comfortable position. For all the bad things we see in this world, it’s always so nice to know that there are amazing people out there too, willing to help rescues like ours. Your are all such an amazing community ❤️

Now here is another sweetheart you have helped us to rescue! Aren’t those fluffy cheeks just the cutest? He has got some matting and some urine scalding down near his nether region, but otherwise appears to be a very happy, friendly boy. He is about 7 months old and his owner was moving and couldn’t take him.

07/03/2025

After buying our weekly supplies today we are down to just $50 in our main account, which is for supplies and emergencies. Since we have been closed and are just getting opened back up, donations have been extremely sparse. Whether we take in new rabbits every day or don’t take in any at all, we still need donations.

We have around 70 rabbits, a few guinea pigs, and 30 farm animals here at any given time we rely on donations to provide them: food, bedding, litter, water, air conditioning, toys, basic medical care, etc.
ALL rescues and sanctuaries rely on donations to provide these things and we are no exception.

In the simplest of terms, without our community and donations, this rescue closes down for good.

I hate ever feeling like we’re backed into a corner and I have to beg or threat our doors closing, but sometimes our posts just aren’t being seen and we aren’t getting the support we need. Please please donate if you can and interact with our posts by sharing and commenting.

https://linktr.ee/alwayssunnysanctuary

07/03/2025

Resharing because we still have a LONG way to go to our fundraising goal for this little man and seems like we are getting shadow banned again the past two days 😩

07/03/2025

We have had so many stunning (and friendly) boys come into the rescue this week! I have one more to post about later but for now let’s think of names for this adorable young man. He was found as a stray and I once again question how anyone sane could let such a beautiful, sweet bunny go. Just look at the gorgeous blue of his eyes 😍

If you’d like to support him please consider making a donation! We have so so many bunnies here to feed and house and your donations make it possible.

https://linktr.ee/alwayssunnysanctuary

07/02/2025

Today we took in this big, handsome male Flemish mix, and pictures don’t do justice to how big he is. Plus this adorable male mini rex, though his size is somewhere between a mini and standard rex. Unfortunately a divorce meant that they had to find a new place to go, as their family was no longer able to care for them with such a big life change. Besides some long nails they were definitely loved and well cared for, so as soon as they are neutered they can find themselves new homes.

What would you name them?

If you’d like to donate toward their care, or for the new lop’s eye surgery, every dollar is so appreciated!!

https://linktr.ee/alwayssunnysanctuary

06/30/2025

‼️VET FUNDS NEEDED!‼️

A few days ago we took in this pair of bonded lops, not knowing that one of them had this rather angry looking cataract. This isn’t our first time seeing an eye like this and I know what the options will be.

1. We remove the eye (enucleate) as a precaution so that the cataract doesn’t rupture. They are VERY prone to rupturing from my experience and the reason we have removed at least three other rabbits’ eyes in the past. Anyone who has had rabbits knows how prone they are to the occasional eye poke from hay and with a cataract it’s even more likely and can cause the rupture. This kind of cataract in a young rabbit is also usually caused by past or present E. cuniculi damage as well, which again makes the eye more unstable than just age-related cataracts.

2. We don’t remove the eye if it appears stable and perhaps supplement with eye drops as needed, and hope that it never ruptures and he is totally fine. This is the option most vets would probably give IF he was someone’s pet still. Unfortunately, now he is at a rescue which means that this would be a medical issue we would have to entrust to an adopter and just hope that they were willing and able to pay for the enucleation if/when the time comes that the eye becomes unstable. This is a huge gamble, and one that we tried once, and then the bunny ended up returned the second she needed the surgery.

So, in all past situations like this, we have opted for the surgery and likely will again in this case. It’s an expensive procedure but one that they recover very well from. We have several one-eyed bunnies in our permanent group and you’d have no idea they were any different.

We just need ✨YOUR HELP✨ our community, to help raise the funds. Any donation helps! So do your shares and comments to help boost the post to the rest of the community.

In the past this surgery has cost anywhere from $700-$1600 just depending if there are any surgical complications. We will raise $1600 just to be safe and make sure all our bases are covered.

https://linktr.ee/alwayssunnysanctuary

💰$305/$1600 raised so far

06/27/2025

On another note, we are still a rabbit rescue, though we still aren’t fully back open yet 😅

Today we took in this stray boy who is so sweet and calm that I’m once again baffled anyone could have let him go. The people who found him said he was wandering their neighborhood for several weeks, just out in the open and going up to people. They thought someone might be missing him but no one ever did take him in so they did. They picked a few ticks off of him but otherwise he appears to be healthy and he’s extremely friendly.

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As far as an update on the rest of the rescue, it’s been an absolutely grueling couple of weeks. The rabbits who were first showing symptoms did not respond to the first medication as we had hoped. We lost a few of the bunnies in the group despite me working day and night to try and get them feeling better and following every protocol the vet told me to. It all happened very fast. I’ll make a post about them later when I’m feeling more up to talking about it but right now I just need to stay focused.

We changed medications and the rest of the bunnies seem to be responding much better to this one, though it’s not usually the first choice for rabbits and I’m having to watch very closely to make sure everyone keeps their appetites up. Only a few of the rabbits outside of the group (but in the same building) have showed any symptoms. No one outside of the building, in the house or in quarantine, has gotten sick thankfully.

Hopefully just a few more days until we can re-open and then we will be reassessing our entire operation with an urgency put on building another building. I want the sanctuary group can have their own building to further minimize cross-spread of anything in the future. I’d also like to start trying to find more fosters but I have had very very little luck with that here so far.

06/27/2025

These two girls finally found a *very temporary* place to go with Silver Paws Golden Days Co Senior & Specials Needs Sanctuary but these girls are way too young for their program and they still desperately need a foster to work with a rescue who can take them on long term. Both girls have tumors but gray and white has a bigger one. They need the communities help!!
Please go support Silver Paws in the mean time but also share to find them a foster!

Also, just a reminder, we ARE NOT A DOG RESCUE! We are getting a ton of requests to take dogs because of the couple posts about these girls, and I’m sorry, we cannot take any dogs or cats.

Having these two extra dogs with us for even a few days was a huge reminder that I cannot do it all. As much as I want to help every stray animal, I cannot. I was on the brink of insanity juggling that many dogs and just cannot manage to add more dogs on top of the rabbits, guinea pigs, goats, horses, pigs, mini cows and the few dogs and cats we already committed to long ago.

As a rescuer, coming to terms with your limits is very hard and this was a wake up call for me. If it’s not a rabbit or a farm animal I simply cannot help, no matter what the circumstances are.

If you find a dog or cat you will have to contact every dog/cat rescue in Oklahoma and hope someone can help. Unfortunately this state has a huge issue with strays and rescues are beyond the point of being unable to take them all. The best way to combat the stray problem is for ALL OF US to keep the pets that we choose to adopt/buy. If you can’t commit for the lifetime of the animal, don’t get the pet, because otherwise you put their life in danger by rehoming or dumping, because there just aren’t enough good homes.

06/25/2025

The rescue community just had another prominent member take their life due to bullying and the extreme pressure of this work. She was always open and honest about being autistic and struggling with mental health. So many of us who run rescues are in the same boat, neurodivergent and/or facing battles with depression, myself very much included. We feel so so deeply for these animals and have to see some of the most horrific things happen to them (most of which we keep to ourselves no matter how much we may seem to share on social media). Not to mention the constant hate from people who don’t believe in rescue or want to judge every decision that we make. It’s always ok to ask questions and hold rescues to a high standard, but you need to remember that we are JUST HUMAN too. We are doing our absolute best with the limited resources that we have to fight for tooth and nail.

Please just be kind and join me in taking a moment to appreciate a cute goat showdown. It’s been very very hard for me to keep positive lately with everything going on. Luckily the goats are always positive and more than happy to show me just how pleased they are to be here.

I hope Mikayla found her peace and that her family is able to too. I know there are hundreds of animals out there at this very moment, pleased to be where they are too, thanks to her hard work.

06/24/2025

LowRider Dachshund Rescue has offered to take these girls and get them the medical care they need if they can find a foster. If you’re interested in fostering please reach out to them!

Desperately needing a foster home for these 2 females that are around 20lbs each.
Found in the Shawnee, OK area dumped, they have tumors that need to be seen by a vet.
They are short and long like a dachshund but wired like a terrier.

If you can foster these 2 sweet girls please message me.
They need a home where they can be inside out of the heat.
Out vet’s office is also in Midwest City so the foster home will need to be able to help with vet appointments.

06/23/2025

A little PSA - I get told that I’m “rude” or “mean” all the time online, but never in person. Just try to remember that you can’t see people’s emotions or facial expressions through a computer/phone screen. I answer questions very directly because I’m autistic (thats right, we live among you and have normal lives), not because I have some personal ill will towards you. I genuinely think it’s so strange that I can’t be direct without someone having a meltdown over it 🤷‍♀️ Then when I don’t apologize I get even worse insults slung at me, meanwhile I’ve still made none that I’m aware of.

My words don’t have hidden meanings. If you’re adding meanings and implications and take them personally, that’s on you. I can’t take back something I never meant in the first place and have no idea what you’re even taking to be so rude.

I’d tell you I’ll work on it, but that would be a lie. I’m not going to change and shouldn’t have to. If you need clarification about how I meant something, just ask instead of accusing me - and really that goes for all people, especially online.

06/23/2025

The last few days have been A LOT and I’m drowing. I have been in dozens of groups asking for help and sent dozens of messages to dozens of rescues asking if any of them are able to take these girls but practically no one has even bothered to respond. The two who did respond got back to me with a “maybe we can help eventually” but no idea of when.

One of these girls has a massive mammary tumor that needs to be addressed and we just don’t have a dog/cat/other audience so no one ever interacts with our non-rabbit posts. I don’t think I could raise the money for her care even if I did have the time and space to keep these girls.

We are also currently at SEVEN dogs. Three of which are strays we found dumped near our home, the two girls and a big Shepard/husky mix we tried to find a home for for 6 months before deciding to just keep him. We can’t do that again. We can’t even legally keep this many dogs long term, let alone have the space and time for them. Three of our original dogs aren’t small-dog safe and have to be kept separate so these little ones are just living in the laundry room and we have to play musical-dog-swap every time they need to all go out potty. It’s a nightmare.

At this point I don’t know what to do. I’m not going to turn them back on the street but I don’t want to go promising a foster that I can support them when I know I’m going to have an extremely hard time raising funds for them. If I turn them over to a city shelter then they will be separated and one will be highly at risk for euthanasia because of her tumor. UGH. 😩

I really hate to think I can’t be the person who stops for stray dogs anymore, but at this rate I won’t have a choice. I help every rescue who asks me, no hesitation, but never get the same in return and just cannot keep this up.

I’m not a superhero. I’m a regular person who already spends 24/7 caring for way way more animals than any person really should. I can’t do it all on my own.