stop calling the ashtabula apl!!!!!!

it has just been brought to my attention that some people have been calling the ashtabula county apl & harrassing them, telling them they *have* to take their rabbits. i would just like to make it clear that this blog is not in anyway affiliated with the apl....the 'featured pet' module to the right is there only to allow blog readers to see some of the dogs they have available. they do not take rabbits, at all, ever. i apologize for the misunderstanding. if you would like to contact me you can do so at lady.senora @ gmail.com. please do not bother the apl, they are busy enough! thank you!

and the rabbitat is still empty....

As many of you know, we spent most of the summer & fall and thousands & thousands of dollars building a rabbitat for a group of feral rabbits from the Best Friends Great Bunny Rescue. We'd been expecting the bunnies for months but kept getting put off, and yesterday we got the news we'd been dreading....they had 'run out' of bunnies. They offered to find us bunnies from other cases they were working on, but they would have been indoor bunnies....I definitely don't approve of keeping rabbits outdoors except in exceptional circumstances, which I felt this was. Our plan was to work on socializing these feral guys in the hopes of bringing them inside and possibly finding indoor homes for them (though of course they'd have always had a home with us). Moving indoor rabbits outdoors was never an option for me.

So now it appears we have wasted all the time and money (and then some) we had to start our rescue. We're devastated. Best Friends has offered to have one of the other rescues who took a large number of the rabbits give us some of theirs, but it seems pointless to take rabbits from a situation where they have just gotten settled in just to move them here. We're now actively seeking out other rescues that may know of feral communities that could use a warm safe home for the winter. Please contact me if you know of a way we can help. We're in NE Ohio.

this sh*t is so rarely funny....

We saw this flyer while searching for Josie. Note not only the blacked-out winky, but also the fact that they crossed out their phone number & re-wrote the exact same number underneath it, presumably because they thought they way the number trailed down the side looked messy :)

(seriously, though, i do hope they found their dog....)

Forums at Best Friends for eradication of gassing shelters & puppy mills

I'm going to be involved with helping to get legislation passed in Ohio to outlaw gassing in animal shelters and regulate puppy mills. Much more info to come, but for now here are a couple links:

Puppy Mills
Gassing

Email me if you're interested in learning how you can help!