Staffordshire Rabbit & Guinea Pig Rescue

26/01/2025

We’re taking a break. No grand announcement or anything, there’s no big news - but I’m taking a couple of months off. I’ve limped along the last 12+ months in a state of burn-out, and there are things in my personal life requiring my time and attention currently which alongside a full-time office job & an animal rescue, I don’t have it to give. Unfortunately I need my job & so it’s the rescue that needs to take a back seat for a short time. If you’d like to pause on your direct debit donations etc for the next few months, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support. I’ll still be posting up the last few animals we have for rehoming periodically and I am absolutely ALWAYS available to adopters via phone. Likewise, if you’ve adopted from us and your animal(s) need to come back, we will always take them back - same day, no questions asked (it is in the rehoming contract that they come back to us, you mustn’t ever privately rehome an animal you’ve adopted from us!) - Take care & see you soon 🙂

08/01/2025

❄️❄️ Cold Weather ❄️❄️

Please ensure your animals are catered for in this current spell of increasingly cold weather.

Pack hides, sheds, hutches (goes without saying we don’t condone using hutches unless as a hide within a suitable enclosure), cardboard boxes - everything you can with floor to ceiling straw. Snugglesafe heat pads are also a lifesaver in these temperatures. This photo is all I could find to use without trawling, but at the moment their hides are now in their enclosure filled with straw and there’s a third of a bale of straw piled in this house to keep them cosy. We also use clear tarpaulins stabled to the walls of the pens to prevent wind chill and drifting snow/rain - this works really well.

Remember that our animals are entirely dependent on us for their welfare, and if you know of anyone that keeps outdoor animals and perhaps won’t have thought to help keep them safe, contact them to remind them. Then perhaps we won’t be sitting in a vet waiting room listening to stories of rabbits that ‘froze to death’ as I was last week.

A straw bale will cost around £5 from a farm shop - there’s no excuse not to keep our animals safe.

06/01/2025

First Monday back to work after Christmas got us like…

04/01/2025

Beautiful Frazzle sends huge thanks again to the wonderful people that donated Christmas gifts to us this year, she thoroughly enjoyed hers and was very spoilt. She has left us today to join a sanctuary group at TBF.

03/01/2025

Forever home Friday 🎉 Both Fig & Bramley found love with the same family on our recent bondathon (Thank you Heather for the bond), and are now living their best lives in their forever home. So pleased for these two beautiful bunnies, who so deserved better lives than they have previously known. ❤️❤️

(Photo taken during bonding hence the small pen)

03/01/2025

Lost in Little Haywood & requiring meds. Please share for her owner, details below.

02/01/2025

With Christmas & New Year out of the way, it’s time to focus on finding our OAPs their forever home. Viktor & Klaus will have been in our care for a whole year in April, and whilst they’re more than well catered for in their foster home, we’re keen for them to have a family all of their own. Please share them far and wide, and let’s see if we can find these beautiful boys their people! 🤞🏼

01/01/2025

Guess who have now left us for their forever home? Parsnip & Mash were our very last adoptions of ‘24 ❤️

27/12/2024

Viktor & Klaus enjoying their Christmas gifts donated by Amy Holmes, the Luxury Bunny Bakery & some of their reps, plus a wreath that their foster Mum treated them to. These gorgeous old boars have been in our care for almost nine months now, and we’re really hopeful that they will have a forever family by next Christmas 🥺🥺

26/12/2024

Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas, and if it wasn’t lovely that it passed quickly for you.

Parsnip had the BEST Christmas in his new foster home, as he received the news that his and Mash’s brand new FOREVER home is ready and waiting for him 🎉

24/12/2024

🎄 Twelve Thank Yous of Christmas 🎄

Squeezing them in thick and fast now before we log off social media for a few days. We couldn’t let our festive thanks pass by without the hugest of mentions to our wonderful Luan at Hopes Cozy Creations . Luan not only taught herself how to sew this year, but then proceeded to knock up hundreds of makes - donating 100% of the sales to our little rescue, all in the name of our special little bun called Hope. Hope didn’t get the happy ever after we so wanted her to, but her legacy has enabled the rescue of so many rabbits and guinea pigs thanks to Luans efforts. She’s been by my side offering help in whatever way we possibly need for the last few years and we feel really lucky to have her ✨

24/12/2024

🎄 Twelve Thank Yous of Christmas 🎄

Next up for our festive Thanks is Heather at The Bunnyjackpot Foundation. She has been an incredible support to us over the last couple of years, be that as a sounding board for tricky medical cases, talking through potential adopters, and placing our palliative care diagnosis rabbits (and Lily pig) and loving them as i have done, for which we couldn’t be more grateful. More recently she’s also done a couple of bondathons to get our buns in homes whilst I’ve been unavailable. She’s there not just for the animals, but the people of the animals too, and selflessly magics away problems for so many of us. We are very grateful ✨

22/12/2024

🎄Twelve Thank Yous of Christmas🎄

Our next big festive thank you goes to our adopters, as without you we couldn’t exist. By opening up your hearts and homes to our beautiful animals and providing them with a safe, happy space for the duration of their lives, you in turn create a space for us to help another animal in need.

Thank you for loving them as we do, and a reminder that whether you adopted ten days ago or ten years ago, rescue back up is for life and we are ✨always ✨here for any help or advice you might need. Merry Christmas ☃️

21/12/2024

🎄 Twelve Thank Yous of Christmas 🎄

Last week we received this HUGE box of incredible goodies from the always generous Lisa at Luxury Bunny Bakery. Enrichment is such a vital aspect of any species’ welfare and we’re so lucky that such kind and generous people and businesses enable us to provide this for our animals. Thank you also must go to the LBB reps , , , and who also donated towards this enormous package. We are so lucky!

It really does take a village and we couldn’t be more grateful - thank you so much 🎅🏼

20/12/2024

🎄Twelve Thank Yous of Christmas🎄

Sorry - We’re a bit all over the place with these as one of our own bunnies is unwell & has had a few days in hospital, so I’ve had to schedule them past Christmas to fit them in.

Todays Thank You is to someone we’ll keep anonymous incase she doesn’t want to be outed, but we can’t possibly not give her a mention in this. We racked up a fair whopper of a vet bill a few weeks back - three neuters, two lots of X-rays, blood tests, amongst other invoices all awaiting payment. On chasing up our invoices I was told that someone had paid them all off and cleared our account 😮

So, to our very own Mrs Claus/Fairy bunmother/all round absolute blinkin’ legend, thank you from the bottom of our hearts 🤶🏻

20/12/2024

Not rabbit or Gp related but Christmas is difficult for so many people. For anyone local, this is lovely - don’t be alone if you don’t want to be.

🎁🎅A WEEK TODAY - STILL PLACES🎅🎁

🥰We are running a free Christmas Day Lunch again for anyone that would otherwise be alone at our well-being room, 19, 21 & 23 Upper Brook Street, Rugeley, WS15 2DP

🎁Everyone is WELCOME (Elderly, Disabled, Lonely, Families, Homeless) 👐😊

☎️PLEASE PRE-BOOK call 01889 578822
(Transport can be provided if needed) 🚙

🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁

17/12/2024

One whole year of Elf, Jingle, Coal & Figgy Pudding. Ivy lives in the stars now, but she was so very, very loved for the time she was here ✨