Irish bunnies (Cork)

[Sabine]

Hi there, I don't know if there is any point posting this but I am looking for a good home for a beautiful female 12 week old black and white rabbit and eventually in a few weeks a home for six little half lionhead buns who are only about four weeks or so now.
My longish story how I came about all those rabbits is posted in the rabbitery. Some pet shops I contacted vaguely expressed an interest but no vacancies right now and frankly I am not 100 per cent happy with that option but can't keep ten bunnies altogether. I have no rabbit contacts in Ireland and I am not sure how to go about the adoption except hanging up notices and grilling the future owners on their suitability:X Probably not very realistic. So if any of you have any contacts in the South of Ireland let me know as I am knee deep in bunnies... sabine

 

[gentle giants]

I will tell you what I usually tell people having the same problem as you are. Advertise in places like your local newpaper, etc, and ask a certain amount of money for each bunny. I don't know what prices are like there, but however much is enough so that they would be too expensive to use for bad things like snake food.

Then have a list of questions to ask potential owners, like who is your vet, do you plan to spay/neuter, have you had a rabbit before, etc. It's not risk free, but no re-homeing ever is. I have to repeat, please, please don't let a petstore take them. Bunnies in a petstore are a disposable commodity, and you would have no control over who gets them or what they are getting them for.

 

[Sabine]

I know you are so right and I have notices ready to put up locally. Ideally I'd love to be able to scrutinize every potential owner but the reality of things is that I have ten rabbits now. Magic and Miracle are on the verge of sexual maturity and can't be kept together safely for much longer. Yet I have no place to put them separately with the six new babies and all. The house we're in isn't ours and there might be a slight risk that we might have to move before Christmas and did I mention I have five kids, the youngest a three months old baby who is getting rather little attention at the moment. Of course I will do my best to find good homes but there doesn't seem to be a great rabbit support network here in Ireland. I have mainly contacted pet shops that only sell their rabbits with a cage or hutch but even the pet shops aren't imterested. So I am really in a bit of a state and having already invested an extra couple of hundred pounds for hutches food, bedding etc... my finances won't stretch that far. I just hope that maybe somebody Irish on this Forum might read this and give me some numbers to ring.
P.S. The pet shop that caused the situation offered no support. I wrote them a stinker of a letter and will also ring the ISPCA to alert them to this situation.

 

[weedflemishgiants]

It is my understanding that you are in southern ireland.

Have you thought about going to the Northern Ireland online forum for animal rescues and telling them there that you have this predicament with your rabbits?

You can register and post here and it is free- worth a shot anyway.

http://z6.invisionfree.com/Northern_Ireland_K9

 

[Sabine]

Great thanks, I'll get in touch with them later. I appreciate any info or contacts I can get. Thanks Sabine