RSPCA RABBIT RESCUE
As a rabbit is popped in its carrier, her new owners are happily chatting about their new furry friend, the other bunnies look on happy for her but sad it wasn't them, they wonder who will take her space......
Looking around at all my friends and wobbling my nose at them and watching them wobble on back at me i realised how lucky we all were, We are safe, comfy, have lots of space to run and toys to play with, companions and carrots-well our lives are almost complete........almost........ I myself had been picked up as a stray, I lost my way and couldn't possibly find my way home. It seemed a good idea at the time, the outside world was calling me, Just on the other side of the gate was a whole new life and a world waiting for me to explore it. I didn't realise the world was a big scary place, full of dogs and cars and oooo cats! I had never been so happy to see someone in all of my life, and when i saw a washing basket heading my way with my name practically written on it I didn't put up much of a fight (well you have to at least try and look like you don't want to be caught don't you?). when I was taken to the RSPCA animal shelter my new friend seemed sad to be parting with me but explained to the staff at the desk he couldn't possibly keep me as he didn't have enough time to care for a rabbit. I was taken to a large hutch with plenty of bedding and sweet hay to eat. I soon settled in and speaking to my floppy eared neighbours, I realised all of us were in the same boat, sure some of us had been abandoned by our owners some had been unwanted pets for children who had got bored of them and others their owners had developed an allergy against them but one thing we all had in common, although we were safe and warm, We all looking for a new home.
Over the next few days the shelter got fuller and fuller and each space got filled with a new face and a new story, some days one of us would leave to a new home but the space would soon be refilled. but there is one day i will never forget. The day of the rabbit army!
It was cold and a little drizzly, I was minding my own business having a good old munch of my hay ball when i heard a scurry of feet. I pressed myself closer to the bars to see what all the fuss was.
And then I saw it.Bunny after bunny after bunny came round the corner carried in boxes, all of them lining up like a rabbit army! I had never seen so many of our kind in one place! big ones, small ones, fluffies, smoothies, lops, up ears, dwarfs, giants every type you could possibly imagine.
I didn't want to be rude but i simply couldn't help myself,
"Where are you from?" i asked the nearest bunny a tiny white angora. His eyes peeked out at me from under his floppy hair, he had a twitchy nervous look about him but I wondered if it was just all his hairs wobbling together that was creating this affect? He eyed me suspiciously at first as if sizing me up then seeming somewhat satisfied that I was of no threat replayed in a fast, anxious voice.
"gosh" i replied "and why are you here?"
The bunny mulled this over for a moment and then in a thoughtful voice replied
"I guess there was just to many of us?, we all need lots of love and time and I suppose with so many, that just wasn't possible, we had plenty of food but in the end it was just too much, our claws were getting long and we had to fight for affection. Me being small I got pushed out quite a bit."
That's so sad, I thought back to my own owner and the amount of time she used to take cleaning me and letting me run round the garden. and I felt a pang of guilt. I had run away looking for a new and exiting life without thinking or giving to time to imagine there were other bunnies with a much harder lives than my own.
"So are you pleased to be here?" I questioned.
"Oh yes im hoping for a lovely home with a friend and someone who has got time to look after me and my long coat", (deep breath) "I feel safe here, im looking forward to the future now"
That day passed with a number of brushings and bathings, claw clipping and teeth checking, The new bunnies seemed happy in their accommodation and seemed to cause quite a stur with the staff at the shelter who cared for us, with each new rabbit being met with combination of cooing and ahhhhing. This was followed by The filming I knew about the Tv, that box thing in the corner of the room with the moving pictures on it , I had offen watched it threw the window, but I never thought I would be on it! The stars of the show were the new bunnies, I listened to the man talking about the rabbits and thinking how true everything he said was. We do need lots of care and offen are forgotten at the bottom of gardens, I thought of all the hard work and time the rspca was putting in not only to rescue rabbits like my new friends but to care and look after us till we could be adopted. I was thankful for the kind people who opened their homes to foster rabbits like myself and hoped that with the news report it would encourage people to come and see us and think about adopting.
That night when all the excitement was over and I was settling down in my hay I heard a
"pppsttt! pppst!". It was the angora newly named Bobby dazzler,
"whats next?" he whispered in his quick but now not so anxious voice.
"next?" i asked.
"yes what do we do now?"
"now" Isaid gazing up at the stars, "we make a wish and wait for our dreams to come true".
