18/10/2025
🤍 A very big thank you to those who supported our protest! 🤍
For those who don't know the cause, we do not support Petworld and other pet shops that sell live animals. There are countless reasons for this, mostly including:
❗️Selling animals contributes to the overpopulation and increases the dumping rates
❗️Most animals are sold with incorrect housing and diet and new pet owners are left uneducated about their new pet
❗️ This leads to more dumping or surrendering to rescues when the new pet "becomes too much"
❗️Pet shops often sell animals too young, which paired with the incorrect beddings and diet, leaves the animals getting ill and passing away early on in their lives
❗️ Petshops do not sterilize their animals or inform their customers of the importance of sterilizing, whereas rescues include this procedure in their adoption fees. Sterilizing is incredibly important, especially with bunnies and can be extremely expensive when working through private vets
❗️Small rescues like Hop Haven are left to deal with stray bunnies, feral colonies born from dumped pets, animals left in the streets to get run over or eaten, etc which gets overwhelming and hard to manage!
❗️ Animals are not products and should not be treated as such
By supporting a rescue, you are making a huge difference in animals' lives!
‼️ADOPT DONT SHOP ‼️
If you are interested in joining future protests, please stay tuned to see when the next one will be scheduled. The more support we get on the day, the more impact our protests will make and hopefully we can start to make a change for the animals!
Instead of buying your pet supplies from Petworld or any pet store selling animals, rather support a small business where you know that your purchase supports ethical people who truly care about their animals. Our favorite small pet supply stores:
petsbunny.boxza
