Rabbit Advocacy Animal Matters

"All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals." Peter Singer

“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.” Mark Twain

“There can be a cost to acting on one’s principles, but there is a bigger cost to abandoning them.”

Our humanity isn’t measured by how we treat other people…Our humanity is measured by how we treat animals. –Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

"Keep fighting for change & align yourself with those who share your vision & cause." Carmina Gooch

As a civilized society, our opposition to all forms of animal cruelty must be resolute.

Thinking of buying a rabbit for Easter - Don't!

Easter Rabbits & the Impulse Buy

Easter & Bunnies Don't Mix, exploitation, some stats; giveaways

Rabbits rescued before becoming Easter gifts while New Zealand has annual kill; the Alexandra Lions Club hosts the massacre

 Rabbit Sales Continue - Our Campaigns Continue

The commercial impetus for laws protecting animals is as key as the humanitarian one.  

 

• Rabbits and Petcetera
• BC SPCA and Petcetera form relationship in 1997; still maintains unethical relationship in 2007 
• Petcetera to stop selling rabbits in its BC stores # 1; contravenes new Kelowna bylaw
• Petcetera to stop selling rabbits in its BC stores # 2; breaks promise
• 2007 Petition & Letter to Petcetera, campaign makes Best Friends
• Petcetera's blatant promotion of cute little Easter bunnies; our PSAs
• Bunny Debate, letters to media & councils; stopping store sales; Easter campaign
• More Bunny Debate & Petcetera
• The BC SPCA and Petcetera's rabbit program
• More rabbit concerns and Petcetera's suppliers; workers file complaint with Labour Relations
• Comparing Petcetera and Petco
• PETCO to Offer Neutered Rabbits for Adoption Only
• Petcetera files for bankruptcy protection 2009, SPCA owed money; files again in 2014, out of business!
• Petcetera reopening some stores & selling rabbits 2009; Rabbit Advocacy PSAs, urging boycotts

• The hellish exotic trade; BC's legislation; federal legislation needed; animal rental agencies; Cinemazoo & Urban Safari; exposing the truth behind animal businesses
• Charges planned against Mountain View in Fort Langley after deaths of giraffes; whistleblowers came forward; justice was denied
• 1,000 animals rescued from horrific backyard breeding operation, Houston; over 200 outside Dallas; 92 rabbits & hamsters near Calgary, member of ARBA; Spokane animals seized, exploited as multi-purpose objects; Ohio cruelty
• Rabbit Mills & Pet Store Cruelty; mini rex club rabbits in garage cruelty, Indiana; Alabama hoarder couple's rabbits go to coroner/rabbit breeder; over 200 rabbits, some sick, removed by USDA from unlicensed Georgia business
• PetSmart's Big Suffering for Small Animals; Global Exotic Breeders hell, cruelty charges approved; 2016 PETA exposé of Reptiles by Mack
• Investigations reveal horrors at PetSmart suppliers; Global Exotics Inc.
• PETA Shareholder Resolution asks PetSmart to stop selling live animals; current pet store laws
• Rabbits at PetSmart; sick reptiles at Ontario store, reporting concerns; bylaws
• Victory for Pet Store Animals - UK; stop the cycle, exploitation
• Pets of Bel Air, Celebrity Boutique to the Stars, Closing

• Investigating Petco's Suppliers and Operations; animals left to die in flood; 2016 animals frozen alive, crudely gassed at Holmes Farm, supplier to Petco & Petsmart
• Marshall Farms breeding rabbits bigtime for Petco
• Family sues PETCO after son dies of rat-bite fever; dachshund owners sue Petsmart after dog dies during grooming
• Petland - another big chain profiting from the pet trade; puppy mill statistics   
• Discussion and concerns on Petland stores in BC
• Surrey's Petland - no surprises here, closes 2016; Courtenay store closes, PoCo rabbits
• Petland faces class action lawsuit; Texas store closing; 2021 - HSUS puppy mill report
• Akron Petland closes after worker drowns rabbits; Robinson Petland, PA, under scrutiny; 2019 Fairfax, VA store closes after HSUS reveals rabbits left to die

• BC pet stores receive complaints; Doggie World, Puppy Paradise under fire, new BC Bill M214 hits roadblock, reintroduced 2016; update 2017, 2019 system not set up
• Sick puppy dies after sale at Victoria store; mills probed, Pet Habitat breaks bylaw
• Woman regrets purchasing dog from Delta store Puppies, Fish & Critters; PJ's Pets closing 27 stores across Canada, 5 in BC; updates   
• Sick rabbits sold, N. Van. - increased legislation asked of municipalities
• Pet Habitat, District of North Vancouver, new rabbit bylaws, come on Burnaby!  
• Noah's Pet Ark exploiting pets as gifts; Bosley's plans to sell live animals!
• Free pet rabbits offered on Craigslist; cracking down on breeder ads online; Kijiji's position, free pets often end up in wrong hands, CHS seizes dead animals

• Man's inhumanity - life is cheap and cruel; rabbit cruelty in Comox
• Rabbits mutilated before being murdered; cruelty nets jail time, Florida 
• Saga of a rabbit hoarder: a crime and an illness; suffering and neglect; 2B lawsuit filed by rabbit hoarder dismissed, 2016
• Easter and related rabbit issues
• Curb that bunny urge - breeders profit, rabbits lose
• Nature Trail to Hell? Kids, rabbits, & Easter muddle
• Deadly start to Year of the Rabbit - and ends the same

• Nanaimo feral domestic rabbits abound, gov't "experts;" VIU study; Sidney & Saanich issues; breeder busted; 2018 deadly rabbit virus
• Rabbits left to fend for themselves; the struggle to survive; Colony Farm bunnies; 100 rabbits dumped on remote Utah road 2016
• Development Displaces Klahanie Rabbits Update; Jericho Park rabbits lose habitat; harassed, our meetings with Van. Parks; updates 2016/17; 2023 consequences of abandonment
• Abandoned rabbits in Ladner/Delta and Mission; relocation 2012, Env. Ministry; predation, dumping consequences; Jan./18 park rabbits shot
• 4-H members thoughtlessly breeding rabbits; BC 4-H sponsorships PNE; more than 240 4-H rabbits die of heat after CA auction fundraiser
• Unwanted rabbits are everywhere; Alaska; San Juan Island; Parksville debates matter; action unlikely
• Feral rabbits becoming a 'problem' in Powell River
• Seattle rabbit relocation efforts controversial; roundup in Woodland Park, Meadows Sanctuary

• CBC reports on Kelowna rabbits
• Kelowna seeks help for burgeoning rabbit population
• Kelowna hires death squad to exterminate bunnies; growing opposition to proposed slaughter
• Rabbits poisoned in Glenmore area of Kelowna
• More news on the Kelowna bunnies
• Outrage over Kelowna's rabbit extermination; some letters, use of air rifle, SPCA
• Widespread anger after Kelowna contractor stomps bunny to death; no charges
• The Killing Streets of Kelowna; EBB Consulting, TRACS 
• Two methods of killing approved but shooting ban continues
• Kelowna's bunny-eliminator short of cash, B.C. gov't creates complications; TRACS bunnies today, 2016
• No sales or adoptions of unaltered rabbits in Kelowna but Petcetera contravenes new bylaw

• Vernon rabbits get temporary new shelter; more Okanagan news
• Vernon and Coldstream consider banning sales of unaltered rabbits
• Richmond full of discarded rabbits and their offspring; are there any answers? 2018 deadly rabbit virus strikes RAPS shelter
• SPCA says "gunshot euthanasia" okay, others say it makes no sense; letters
• There's a never-ending supply of cast-off rabbits, plenty in Richmond shelters & parks; RAPS; bylaws
• Richmond looking to ban sale of rabbits, new bylaws passed; animal dumping cruelty; Ikea area rabbits 2017; Apr 2018 deadly virus hits RAPS shelter; contact the City
• BC municipalities starting to prohibit rabbit sales in pet stores; UBCM resolution passes but no action; letters; Vancouver 2017
• Victoria considers new rabbit bylaws; Saanich & Oak Bay update theirs; fines for abandonment; letter - rabbits are not rodents!
• Victoria General Hospital gives order to kill bunnies; humans to blame for incessant problems; rabbits now multiplying at Helmcken exit, View Royal; 2016 relocation efforts in the works

• Calgary in quandary over proliferating rabbits; Banff proactive; jackrabbits victims of savagery; 2017 feral rabbits aplenty; 2019 news
• Canmore bunnies get reprieve; plans change, resistance ensues, mayor hears from public
• Injunction dismissed, Canmore activists forge on, the politics of it all, EARS contract, concerns mount for the rabbits; lethal control policy, 2020
• City issues another permit to shoot rabbits Mission Viejo; extermination continues into 2014; 2019 Regina's hoppers, culls NOT the answer

• University of Victoria battles bunnies
• UVic claims rabbits are "hazardous"; spreading fear and misinformation  
• UVic overrun with rabbits while Petcetera sells more
• Hunting UVic rabbits is illegal, inhumane, and immoral; bylaw violations; justice denied
• Sterilization for UVic rabbits? veterinarian offers vasectomies; letters to editor
• UVic's feral bunnies up for adoption
• UVic Feral Rabbit Pilot Project launched; comes to an end; feedback; SoCal's roundup program
• What's next for the bunnies?; deficiency in humane leadership
• Activists speak out while UVic officials mull lethal control
• Rabbit issue intensifies; draws widespread news coverage
• UVic officials confirm rabbit slaughter; widespread resistance; development plans

• Firestorm of protest as rabbit kill gets underway; Rabbit Advocacy featured in Pet Connection
• Rabbit future bleak - UVic solicits groups for help
• UVic unveils plan to rid campus of 1,200+ rabbits; community rallies to save them
• Temporary injunction granted to stop UVic rabbit kill
• UVic ponders options to injunction - trapping suspended; updates
• Permits for rabbits approved; injunction set aside
• Rabbits escape sanctuary; killed by neighbour. Another attack; EARS deficient
• Coombs agricultural groups want UVic rabbits gone; PNE steps up
• UVic moves to rabbit-free campus; there'll be no mercy; sanctuary news; Coombs calamity; a rabbit dead every 2nd day; EARS says UVic survivors sent to AB

• UVic rabbit cruelty; tormenting defenceless creatures; animal cruelty is a moral & legal crime
• The rabbits of Kilby Historic Site B.C, a sad existence
• Petting zoos; E.coli; risky & outdated, Stanley Park farmyard closes; Park Board goat case, FVA; Dolittle probe, Maple Ridge; 2020 updates
• Rabbit Cruelty in Richmond; Minoru Park & Auto Mall rescue efforts; FLNRO position; relocation

• Cat, dog sale ban decision delayed, but change on way in Canada; Toronto, Waterloo, Maple Ridge, Vancouver modernize bylaws; rabbit sales banned
• South Lake Tahoe, L.A., San Diego, Chicago, NYC, & others take action on retail sale of pets, USDA; state laws
• Ordinances in the US that protect rabbits; Las Vegas update 2018; 2019 new legislation in effect in California
• Australia - MP's bill to stop animal sales in pet stores; cruelty crackdown
• Why Ban "Pets" from Pet Stores? Pet rabbits the most common illegal pet in Queensland; pet 'ownership' will require a permit in Turkey 
• Rabbits overrun Robben Island, South Africa - world graph; natural environment in state of crisis
• Robben Island closes for two weeks for mass rabbit 'culling program', 1000s dispatched; Japan's Rabbit Island

 

Breeders who sell to pet stores don't care what happens to their 'stock'. The lives of the animals are measured in

financial terms only. They are exploited as commodities to be converted to capital. The entire trade is synonymous with misery, suffering, and death.

 

 Help us in our efforts to reform this antiquated & oppressive industry.

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