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

Don't buy that Easter Bunny - radio PSA 2009

Easter Rabbits & the Impulse Buy

Easter & Bunnies Don't Mix

Rabbits rescued before becoming Easter gifts - NZ shoots ferals

 Rabbit Sales Continue - Our Campaigns Continue

Thinking of buying a rabbit for Easter?

Deadly start to Year of the Rabbit - and ends the same

Tell PetSmart to end live animal sales today!

Petcetera still selling rabbits in BC stores despite promise to end sales (Petcetera photos below)

• Rabbits and Petcetera
• BC SPCA and Petcetera form relationship in 1997 
• BC SPCA maintains business partnership with Petcetera
• Petcetera to stop selling rabbits in its BC stores # 1
• Petcetera to stop selling rabbits in its BC stores # 2
• 2007 Petition & Letter to Petcetera
• Petcetera's blatant promotion of cute little Easter bunnies
• Bunny Debate
• More Bunny Debate & Petcetera
• Petcetera workers file complaint with Labour Relations
• The BC SPCA and Petcetera's rabbit program
• More rabbit concerns and Petcetera's suppliers
• Comparing Petcetera and Petco
• PETCO to Offer Neutered Rabbits for Adoption Only
• Petcetera files for bankruptcy protection
• Petcetera reopening some stores & selling rabbits

• The hellish exotic trade; BC's legislation
• Charges planned against Mountain View after deaths of giraffes
• 1,000 animals rescued from horrific backyard breeding operation
• Rabbit Mills & Pet Store Cruelty
• PetSmart's Big Suffering for Small Animals
• Investigations reveal horrors at PetSmart suppliers UPDATE
• PETA Shareholder Resolution asks PetSmart to stop selling live animals
• Rabbits at PetSmart
• Victory for Pet Store Animals - UK
• Pets of Bel Air, Celebrity Boutique to the Stars, Closing
• Investigating Petco's Suppliers and Operations
• Marshall Farms breeding big for Petco
• Petland - another big chain profiting from the pet trade   
• Discussion and concerns on Petland stores in BC
• Surrey's Petland - no surprises here
• Petland faces class action lawsuit; Texas store closing
• Akron Petland closes after worker drowns rabbits

• BC pet stores receive complaints; Doggie World under fire, new bill on way UPDATE
• Sick puppy dies after sale at Victoria store; mills probed UPDATE
• Sick rabbits sold - increased legislation asked of municipalities
• Pet Habitat, District of North Vancouver, new rabbit bylaws  
• Noah's Pet Ark exploiting pets as gifts
• Free pet rabbits offered on Craigslist
• Man's inhumanity - life is cheap and cruel
• Rabbits mutilated before being murdered 
• Saga of a rabbit hoarder: a crime and an illness
• Easter and related rabbit issues
• Curb that bunny urge - breeders profit, rabbits lose
• Nature Trail to Hell?

• Nanaimo Feral Domestic Rabbits
• Rabbits left to fend for themselves
• Development Displaces Klahanie Rabbits
• Abandoned rabbits in Ladner and Mission UPDATE
• 4-H members thoughtlessly breeding rabbits
• Unwanted rabbits are everywhere
• Seattle rabbit relocation efforts controversial

• CBC reports on Kelowna rabbits
• Kelowna seeks help for burgeoning rabbit population
• Kelowna hires death squad to exterminate bunnies
• Growing opposition to proposed killing of Kelowna rabbits
• Rabbits poisoned in Glenmore area of Kelowna
• More news on the Kelowna bunnies
• Outrage over Kelowna's rabbit extermination
• Widespread anger after Kelowna contractor stomps bunny to death
• The Killing Streets of Kelowna 
• Two methods of killing approved but shooting ban continues
• Kelowna's bunny-eliminator short of cash, B.C. government creates complications
• No sales or adoptions of unaltered rabbits in Kelowna but Petcetera contravenes new bylaw

• Vernon rabbits get temporary new shelter
• Vernon and Coldstream consider banning sales of unaltered rabbits
• Richmond full of discarded rabbits and their offspring
• SPCA says "gunshot euthanasia" okay
• There's a never-ending supply of cast-off rabbits, Richmond shelter overflowing
• Richmond looking into banning sale of rabbits, new bylaws passed
• BC municipalities starting to prohibit rabbit sales in pet stores UPDATE
• Victoria considers new rabbit bylaws; Saanich & Oak Bay update theirs
• Victoria General Hospital gives order to kill bunnies
• Calgary in quandary over proliferating rabbits
• Canmore bunnies get reprieve; plans change, resistance ensues UPDATE
• Injunction dismissed, activists forge ahead, the politics of it all NEW
• City issues another permit to shoot rabbits amid opposition

• University of Victoria battles bunnies
• UVic claims rabbits are "hazardous" 
• Uvic overrun with rabbits while Petcetera sells more
• Hunting UVic rabbits is illegal, inhumane, and immoral
• Sterilization for UVic rabbits?
• UVic's feral bunnies up for adoption
• UVic Feral Rabbit Pilot Project launched; comes to an end
• What's next for the bunnies?
• Activists speak out while UVic officials mull lethal control
• Rabbit issue intensifies; draws widespread news coverage
• UVic officials confirm rabbit slaughter
• Firestorm of protest as rabbit kill gets underway
• Rabbit future bleak - UVic solicits groups for help
• UVic unveils plan to rid campus of 1,200+ rabbits
• Temporary injunction granted to stop UVic rabbit kill
• UVic ponders options to injunction - trapping suspended
• Permits for rabbits approved; injunction set aside
• Rabbits escape sanctuary; killed by neighbour. Another attack
• Coombs agricultural groups want UVic rabbits gone; PNE steps up
• UVic moves to rabbit-free campus; there'll be no mercy

• UVic rabbit cruelty
• The rabbits of Kilby
• Petting zoos:risky and outdated, local attraction closing
• Rabbit Cruelty in Richmond

• Cat, dog sale ban decision delayed, but change on way in Canada
• South Lake Tahoe Council and others take action on retail sale of pets
• 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
• Rabbits overrun Robben Island, South Africa - world graph
• Robben Island closes for two weeks for mass rabbit 'culling program'

 

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

dollars only.  The pet trade is synonymous with animal suffering.

 

It's a harsh business full of misery and death. Help us in our efforts to reform the industry.