Merry Christmas & Hoppy Holidays!

 🧬Merry Christmas to those who celebrate & HOPPY HOLIDAYS to ALL! <3

💝We, at Bunny World Foundation, thank you for your support in 2021, which helped our colossal efforts to make the world a tiny better place for our much-loved companions!

🐞Our work continues every day, so we ask you NOT to forget the MILLIONS of HOMELESS bunnies suffering in high-kill shelters, bunny mills, labs, backyard breeders, fur farms, and abattoirs who are not enjoying the privileges of a beloved family member. Together, we can help MANY! ADOPT. FOSTER. VOLUNTEER, D❤️NATE!

🦋Here are options for those wishing to give a special gift to Bunny World Foundation this Christmas & Holiday Season:

🍓MAKE an ON-LINE D🐰NATION via PAYPAL to help our VCA West Los Angeles Animal Hospital Vet Bill of $10K, any amount helps. http://www.bunnyworldfoundation.org/donate/

🍒Please CALL Northwood Animal Hospital & D🐰NATE directly towards our OUTSTANDING MEDICAL BILL of $23,300: (949) 559-1992. $100+ donations. (The latest bill and mounting of 12/22 in the comments)

🍊VISIT OUR AMAZON WISHLIST: http://www.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/3CMC7ONQWSRBZ/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_ws_25ePpb18E8967

🥕LAST MINUTE HOLIDAY GIFTS? When you do your Holiday shopping at AmazonSmile, Amazon donates 0.5% of the purchase price to BWF. Bookmark the link http://smile.amazon.com/ch/26-3792479 and support us every time you shop.

🍐CONSIDER D🐰NATING MONTHLY even if it’s just a few dollars. No d🐰nation is too small. Bunnies need you! http://www.bunnyworldfoundation.org/donate/

🥂 THANK YOU! May you find time this Holiday Season to enjoy that which you hold closest to your heart <3🍇

~BWF

P.S. Our current Vet Bill in ONE hospital! 

BWF is in People's Choice Competition: Nov. 30-Dec. 15. Please, give us your VOTE! Thank you!

One of our adopters has won a #petcolovestory grant on our behalf of Petco Love. And now, we have the opportunity to win up to $25,000 in additional lifesaving funds through the People’s Choice contest!

If you support what we do, please give us a vote! You can access the voting page here (just search ‘Mini’ or ‘Bunny World Foundation’):

https://petco.wishpondpages.com/love-stories-vote/

Steps to Vote:

1. Use the search bar to search by organization, adopter or pet name.

2. Enter your email address and click the “vote” button.

3. Click the red “Send Confirmation Email” button.

4. Go to your email inbox and confirm your vote.

If you have voted in a Petco Love (formerly Petco Foundation) campaign before, you may not need to confirm your vote via email for it to count in this round. Confirmation is only required once.

And here’s the link to our adopter’s story:

https://petcolove.org/love-story/mini/

(Remember our lab bunny rescue from last year? Who would have thought that one of those buns would go on to become a Bunny Influencer?! )

#petcolovestory #petcolove #rabbitrescue #animaladvocate #animalwelfare #bunnylove

$27K May Fundraiser for Medical Bills

The Post-Easter Massacre is in full swing, and the bunnies in LA are "falling from the sky!" Our VET BILL skyrocketed to $27,500.00. We're in trouble!

Between four vet hospitals, we had 50 bunnies seen this month of May. Several fractures, multiple molars, abscesses, wounds all over the body, eye infections, malnutrition-ed orphans, head-tilts, and more! We hit the ceiling when it comes to our vet bill and need ALL the help we can get! If you open the album, you can see some of our little patients and vet bills reflecting our plea. Please SHARE this post!https://www.facebook.com/media/set?vanity=BunnyWorldFoundation&set=a.4145618905476500

You can donate directly to our vet at Northwood Animal Hospital (for $100+ donations) or via Facebook or PayPal at http://www.bunnyworldfoundation.org/donate/ (any amount!) We are truly desperate and cannot continue to take the bunnies to the vet until our balance is significantly reduced.

This month we pulled bunnies from the deadly SEEACA, Pasadena Humane Society, Mission Viejo Animal Shelter, LAAS. (East Valley, West Valley, South LA, Harbor, North Central, and West LA).

• We're STILL ALL-VOLUNTEER, FOSTER-BASED rescue;

• We're STILL taking in 50 – 70 bunnies a month;

• We're STILL taking a ton of strays, owner surrenders, and Craig Lists discards;

• We're STILL holding adoption events weekly and finding homes for 50+ bunnies a month;

• We're STILL booking at 10+ surgeries a week;

• We're STILL scooping every medically alerted rabbit from LAAS, including nursing mothers, babies, orphans, seniors, broken legs, broken backs, abscesses caused by molars, and more;

• Our vet bills fluctuate from $8K to $15K a month.

• Our Bunny Chateau (hotel) has been open and fully functioning throughout the Covid period.

• Updates related to all our activities are posted in our private group DAILY.

• 1% of what we do is posted on Social Media. There's simply no time!

Northwood Animal Hospital opens tomorrow at 10 am and closes at 4 pm. Please call in if you can help or donate here (FB) or via the PayPal link above. Thank you for your support!

~BWF Volunteers

BWF Awarded a 21.5K Grant by Petco Foundation for 2021 Animal Welfare Organization Grant Cycle

Bunny World Foundation is deeply honored to be a recipient of the funds designated to assist 600 bunnies rescued from high kill shelters in Los Angeles City during Winter/Spring of 2021. The project, made possible by the Petco Love Foundation enabled us to continue our mission through April of 2021 and tackle many medical challenges related to the rabbits we rescued.  Thanks to our Adoption & Charitable Partner Petco Love Foundation, together, we continue to make a real difference for animals.

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.

BREEZY HASN'T HAD IT EASY!

On Sunday, Breezy had a large infected open wound on the ventral neck (more images available if you click this LINK (WARNING – GRAPHIC SURGERY SHOTS).  By Wednesday, we repaired the wound, and Breezy made it through the surgery.  Now, Breezy needs an EXPERIENCED FOSTER to help him heal, and BWF needs help with the VET BILL that hit the $20K ceiling again. 

Before you hear Breezy's story, we want to let you know that we lost our Senior Facebook Volunteer last year amid Covid and have been trying to find a permanent replacement since then, hence the lack of presence on this platform.  However, please note that:

• We're STILL ALL-VOLUNTEER, FOSTER-BASED rescue;
• We're STILL taking in 50 – 70 bunnies a month;
• We're STILL holding adoption events weekly and finding homes for 50+ bunnies a month;  
• We're STILL booking at least ten surgeries a week;
• We're STILL scooping every medically alerted rabbit from LAAS, including nursing mothers, babies, orphans, seniors, broken legs, broken backs, abscesses caused by molars, and much more;
• We're STILL taking a ton of strays;
• Our Bunny Chateau (hotel) has been open and fully functioning throughout the Covid period.
• Updates related to all our activities are regularly posted in our private group.
• 1% of what we do is posted on Instagram.  
• Our vet bills fluctuate from $7K to $10K a month.
• You can donate directly to our vet or via PayPal: http://www.bunnyworldfoundation.org/donate/

Thank you for your support!  As for BREEZY....

Sunday, April 18 –  BWF got an e-mail from the North Central Animal Shelter: "So we had a rabbit owner surrendered due to a citation. I wanted to reach out to see if you can help this guy? I have attached photos of his injuries (possible abscess), and we have started him on treatment. We are estimating him at around three years of age, intact, and 4.4 lbs."

BWF didn't waste a second!  Our fabulous volunteer (Summer B.) rushed to North Central within an hour and picked up Breezy and kept him overnight in her loving home.

Monday, April 19 – Summer dropped Breezy at our vet for an exam and potential surgery.

Doctor's Notes:PE: Lots of flea dirt present. Large open, infected wound ventral neck and small infected

area ventral thorax. Goopy eye discharge. Castration and wound debridement today. Debrided abscessed areas and placed drain in large neck abscess. Rxed Metacam and TMS. Will apply

hot compresses BID and remove drain in 2 days if looks okay.—GRR (photos of surgery attached)

Tuesday, April 20 – Breezy is still hospitalized. 

Wednesday, April 21 – Breezy is ready to be discharged from the hospital.  He needs an experienced foster. Breezy is on TMS and Metacam. The hot packing involves getting a washcloth wet with hot (not scalding) water and holding in on the wounds for 5-10 minutes twice daily. He has a drain that will need to come out next week. Breezy should be on Metacam for about two weeks and on TMS for about a month. He needs Silvadene Cream as well to put on the wounds after hot packing. Dr. R

IF YOU'RE THAT PERSON WILLING TO HELP BREEZY HEAL, PLEASE E-MAIL US ASAP at info@bunnyworldfoundatio.org.  We have a transporter who will take him to you if you are approved.

Everyone else, if you can pitch a penny or two, please do so either via FB link or PayPal at http://www.bunnyworldfoundation.org/donate/.  For $100+ donations, you can contact us, and we'll provide the Vet info for direct payment.

Thank you for your support!

~BWF