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Question for Sanctuaries about Rehoming?
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BB Mommy
Warren Veteran
Since we have become a sanctuary rather than a rescue we don't take in healthy rabbits, but refer them to other reputable rescues.
The only healthy rabbits we take in are returns, but I have to say that we probably have better accommodation for our rabbits than most, so a healthy rabbit would have a very fulfilled life in our sanctuary!
The only healthy rabbits we take in are returns, but I have to say that we probably have better accommodation for our rabbits than most, so a healthy rabbit would have a very fulfilled life in our sanctuary!
I can imagine your standards will be alot higher than most for the bunnies
So do you have these bunnies as company mascots or available for adoption sometimes if you don't end up rehoming them?Will the returns stay with you as long as they live?
BB Mommy
Warren Veteran
I can imagine your standards will be alot higher than most for the bunnies
We will rehome them to existing Hopper customers who may have lost one of a pair, if the bonding works, but we will not rehome any rabbit singly so any healthy returns can end up being bonded into a group if there is no immediate demand from a known home.
We don't like to leave them single waiting for a potential home (particularly if they're grieving for a lost partner).
What happens if there is a very sick rabbit but it is bonded with a healthy rabbit? Do you discount them? Do you split them?
BB Mommy
Warren Veteran
What do you mean discount - sell them cheaper?
No, we don't rehome sick rabbits, and they stay together at the sanctuary in their pairing.
No, that wasn't what I meant. At all.
I don't know your situation or set up, but when you said
it made me wonder what happens if you have a pair of rabbits, and one of them needs to be with you, but the other is healthy.
I was trying to ask whether or not you will take on the pair of rabbits, even though one is healthy, because there is one in the pair that needs you. Or whether you say that its not an option to take them as a pair, so eliminate the possibility that they may come to you, or whether you split the pair.
The use of the word discount was meant as (to quote a dictionary) 'to leave out of account; disregard'.
Does that make better sense?
BB Mommy
Warren Veteran
We'd take the pair
coolio ETA- would the healthy one then go up for adoption if it lost its bonded friend?
BB Mommy
Warren Veteran
ETA- would the healthy one then go up for adoption if it lost its bonded friend?
We would rehome it to an existing Hopper customer who had lost one of a pair, if the bonding worked, but as we don't generally have healthy rabbits we wouldn't have another healthy one to bond it with to make a pair for adoption (and we don't rehome single buns) so most likely the remaining partner would bond into an existing group in the sanctuary.
We have trusted volunteers who have rabbits, who occasionally need another partner for a bereaved bunny, and we also have sanctuary rabbits that lose their partner and can't be bonded into an existing pair or group.
