Pook

Pook and Puffy were surrendered late June 2020. Their story is one we hear so often regarding rabbits. They were no longer given the attention they needed or deserved as the family surrendering them had children now and they didn’t have time for the rabbits.

When asked further questions the story becomes all too familiar. The rabbits were approx 2 years old. They were surrendered as two boys but closer examination revealed they were two females. They had not been de-sexed or ever taken to a vet. They hadn’t been vaccinated against calici virus or been wormed or treated for fleas. They had been kept in a cage and their toenails were severely overgrown. They had been fed a common supermarket rabbit food which is inappropriate for rabbits and both were fat. Puffy was obese to the point of not being able to groom herself and as you can see by the photo’s, when she was surrendered she had a large ball of wet and dry faeces stuck around her bottom and stomach area.

The day they were surrendered they were wormed, vaccinated, nail clipped and Puffy was bathed until her bottom was all cleaned up. They are both booked in for desexing and their diet has been corrected to 80% hay, small amounts of lucerne chaff and fresh greens like silverbeet and the odd very small treat like fresh cut carrot.

The way these rabbits were treated is very common and the owners are cruel. Not maliciously cruel or cruel by intent, but cruel by apathy, ignorance and their failure to provide the correct care.

We are hoping to raise enough money to pay for their desexing operations so we would love them to receive many sponsors at the lower price of $50.00 for the year for the pair.

Sponsored by:

Marina Carter – expiry 30/06/2021

Kelly Capstick – expiry 28/06/2021

Bianca Dean – expiry 28/06/2021

Deidre Brumby – expiry 28/06/2021

Ilaria Catizone – expiry 28/06/2021

Vivenne McNally – expiry 28/06/2021

Kathryn Hines – expiry 28/06/2021

Vanessa Wells – expiry 28/06/2021

Dale Heather – expiry 30/06/2021

Michael Bevitt – expiry 28/06/2021

Pawinee Yuhun – expiry 29/06/2021

Tico

This lady is one of the 30 rabbits rescued from a terrible neglect situation in Hobart in mid January 2015.

Sponsorship of $50.00 will go towards her vet checks, parasite control and vaccinations.

Sponsored by:

Charles Cazabon – expiry 10/05/2021.

Benjamin

Benjamin and his two friends were living in a backyard in Sydney. Their owner didn’t know anything about the keeping of rabbits and they were kept in a small wire fence boundary with no roof and exposed to the elements, it hit 38C there recently and they’re in direct sunlight. Their diet consisted of whatever part of a carrot could fit through the mesh, and whatever faeces-covered grass they could chew on. They did not have access to water, as the owners firmly believed that rabbits don’t drink water and that it would kill them.

Thankfully a neighbour intervened and after trying to educate the owner about rabbits without success he convinced the owner to give the rabbits up, swapping the rabbits for a basketball hoop instead. This good samaratin knew that the rabbits at Big ears are able to live outside as we are free from predators so paid for the rabbits to fly down and get delivered to our door on the 26/12/2019. Whilst they were in his care they would go to sleep in front of their water bowl with their little paws on it, as if afraid of being without water again.

Sponsorship of Benjamin is $50.00 per year and goes towards his vet checks, vaccinations and parasite control.

Sponsored by:

Maria Morena – expires 06/01/2021.

Frith Dyke – expires 28/01/2021.

Leonard

Leonard and his two friends were living in a backyard in Sydney. Their owner didn’t know anything about the keeping of rabbits and they were kept in a small wire fence boundary with no roof and exposed to the elements, it hit 38C there recently and they’re in direct sunlight. Their diet consisted of whatever part of a carrot could fit through the mesh, and whatever faeces-covered grass they could chew on. They did not have access to water, as the owners firmly believed that rabbits don’t drink water and that it would kill them.

Thankfully a neighbour intervened and after trying to educate the owner about rabbits without success he convinced the owner to give the rabbits up, swapping the rabbits for a basketball hoop instead. This good samaratin knew that the rabbits at Big ears are able to live outside as we are free from predators so paid for the rabbits to fly down and get delivered to our door on the 26/12/2019. Whilst they were in his care they would go to sleep in front of their water bowl with their little paws on it, as if afraid of being without water again.

Sponsorship of Leonard is $50.00 per year and goes towards his vet checks, vaccinations and parasite control.

Sponsored by:

Maria Morena – expires 06/01/2021.

Crystal martin – expires 16/01/2021.

Baby Willow

Baby Willow arrived at the sanctuary around March 2016. He was a wild baby when he was attacked by a cat that broke his leg. When he arrived the leg had healed but had not been set so Baby Willow walks a little bit like a crab. He has no pain and gets around as fast as his pen mates Nutmeg and Toffee.

Sponsorship is $50.00 for 12 months and goes towards his health checks, vaccinations and parasite control.

Sponsored by:

Honey Wu – expires 11/12/2020.

Natalie Eng – expires 22/12/2020.

Westpac Lomond Contact Centre – expires 08/01/2021.

Pete

Pete was found last night (23/11/19) on the side of the road in the Tasmania countryside, hunched over and helpless. He was in an area where there were no other goats so had most likely been dumped. When the kind lady who saw him stopped and took a closer look she discovered he had a broken rear right leg, most likely the reason for him being dumped.

Pete was wearing a collar that was also extremely tight.

Pete came to us and we got him straight to the after hours vet where x-rays revealed the leg was broken and he underwent surgery to re-set the leg and have it cast and bandaged.

The vet bill will be costly as it was all performed after 8pm on a Saturday night.

Pete will need some extra attention in the next few weeks with pain relief, bandage management and controlled excercise.

We are hoping to get many sponsors for Pete and accordingly his sponsorship price is $50.00 for the first year.

Sponsored by:

Vivienne McNally – expires 24/11/2020.

Janet Smith – expires 24/11/2020.

Kim Hibble – expires 24/11/2020.

High Voltage Engineering – expires 24/11/2020.

Catherine Baker – expires 24/11/2020.

Jacqueline Baxter – expires 24/11/2020.

Roxanne Ellis – expires 25/11/2020.

Helen Mera – expires 25/11/2020.

Grace Mulholland – expires 25/11/2020.

Louise Thrush – expires 26/11/2020.

Lauren Dean – expires 26/11/2020.

Naomi Mikic – expires 27/11/2020.

Courtney Northeast – expires 05/12/2020.

Honey Wu – expires 11/12/2020.

Belinda Oppenheimer – expires 14/12/2020.

Megan Schultz – expires 15/12/2020.

Deb Robinson – expires 23/12/2020.

Lynette Holmes – expires 25/12/2020.

Cafe Romero – expires 02/01/2021.