FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Lejla Hadzimuratovic, Founder, Bunny World Foundation,
info@bunnyworldfoundation.org, (310) 498-8600
Petco Love, media@petcolove.org
National Nonprofit Petco Love Invests in Bunny World Foundation To
Save and Improve the Lives of Rabbits in the Greater Los Angeles Area
A $35,000 grant will be celebrated at the local Petco event on July 26, 2022
LOS ANGELES, CA (July 25, 2022) - Bunny World Foundation, an all-volunteer animal rescue that finds homes for hundreds of abandoned domestic rabbits each year, is set to receive a $35,000 grant investment from national nonprofit Petco Love. This is happening during a special celebration at Petco at 845 South Arroyo Parkway in Pasadena, California on Tuesday, July 26 at 11 a.m. in support of Bunny World Foundation’s lifesaving work for animals in the greater Los Angeles area.
Petco Love is a national nonprofit leading change for pets by harnessing the power of love to make communities and pet families closer, stronger, and healthier. Since its founding in 1999, Petco Love has invested $330 million in adoption and other lifesaving efforts. And Petco Love helps find loving homes for pets in partnership with Petco and more than 4,000 organizations -- like ours -- across North America, with 6.5 million pets adopted and counting.
“Our investment in Bunny World Foundation is part of more than $15M in investments recently announced by Petco Love to power local organizations across the country as part of our commitment to create a future in which no pet is unnecessarily euthanized,” said Susanne Kogut, president of Petco Love. “Our local investments are only part of our strategy to empower animal lovers to drive lifesaving change right alongside us. We recently celebrated the one-year launch anniversary of Petco Love Lost, a national lost and found database that uses pet facial recognition technology to simplify the search for lost pets.''
Lejla Hadzimuratovic, who founded BWF in 2008 in Los Angeles, said the gift will help the organization during a particularly challenging time, as local shelters are overrun with bunnies who have no place to go after the spring breeding season.
“Bunny World Foundation is deeply honored to be a recipient of the funds designated to assist 700 bunnies rescued from high kill shelters in the greater Los Angeles area during Winter/Spring of 2022. The project, made possible by our adoption and charitable partner Petco Love enables us to continue our mission and tackle hundreds of medical challenges related to the rabbits we rescued,” said Hadzimuratovic. “Together, we continue to make a real difference for rabbits. Amidst the abyss of endless calls for rabbits whose lives are in danger, EVERY DAY we save lives, we educate, we push, and enrich and change the lives of those who decide to adopt their furry friend. We continue to be their voices and their hope.”
For more information about Bunny World Foundation, visit bunnyworldfoundation.org. Learn more about Petco Love here: petcolove.org.
About Bunny World Foundation
Bunny World Foundation (BWF) is an ALL-Volunteer, non-profit 501(c)3 animal welfare organization founded in 2008 in Los Angeles, California. Set up to promote (Shelter) Equity and Equality for Rabbits, BWF’s mission is to combat animal cruelty, illegal animal sales, exploitation, and neglect of all animals, through rescue efforts, public education, investigations, legislation, events, and media attention. In addition, BWF works to reduce rabbit overpopulation and establish rabbits as companion animals that deserve the same individual rights, level of care, and opportunity for longevity as cats and dogs that live as human companions. BWF manages a complex Foster & Adoption Program that requires constant strengthening and expansion to accommodate new rescues and provide for their intensive care, medication, supplies, and spay/neuter funds. BWF has 250 volunteers/fosters and rescues approximately 1,000 abandoned and abused domestic rabbits a year. BWF rescued over 14,000 rabbits in the City of Los Angeles to date, ranging from un-weaned baby bunnies from Santee Alley to adult bunnies from the over-inundated city shelters.
More information about BWF can be found on our website and our Facebook page.
The foundation welcomes any and all donations from the public. All proceeds go toward spay and neuter surgeries, vet bills, food, and other supplies needed to sustain the animals until they can find their forever homes at one of our weekly adoption events.
About Petco Love
Petco Love is a life-changing nonprofit organization that makes communities and pet families closer, stronger, and healthier. Since our founding in 1999 as the Petco Foundation, we’ve empowered animal welfare organizations by investing $330 million in adoption and other lifesaving efforts. We’ve helped find loving homes for more than 6.5 million pets in partnership with Petco and organizations nationwide.
Our love for pets drives us to lead with innovation, creating tools animal lovers need to reunite lost pets, and lead with passion, inspiring and mobilizing communities and our more than 4,000 animal welfare partners to drive lifesaving change alongside us. Join us. Visit petcolove.org or follow on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn to be part of the lifesaving work we lead every day.
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