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Rabbits
don't come cheap! These are approximate costs, obviously they
will vary slightly depending on where a rabbit is kept and
unforeseen vets bills.
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Yearly vaccinations£30
* Food (pellets, vegetables, treats) £3/week
* Hay £2.50/week
* Bedding (Straw) £2.50/week
* Hutch/Run £120+
* Vet care From £10 for teeth trimming to £200
for setting a broken leg
In
short, excluding vet care, a rabbit will cost an average of
£8/week which means £416 a year. You need to be
prepared for unexpected vet bills, this may mean setting up
a savings account and putting money in weekly for emergencies
or getting pet insurance
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Bunny
lover Tamsin Stone hutched a plan to get the plight of unwanted
rabbits more attention - by creating a special owner/rabbit match-making
website.
Eighteen
months later, the site now gets about 10,000 visitors each month
- and has successfully found new loving homes for more than 170
rabbits.
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| Tamsin
and her rabbit Alfie |
The
21-year-old from Leighton Buzzard said: "We've had a really
amazing response with people travelling hundreds of miles to get
the rabbit they want.
"One
person made a thousand mile round trip as they had fallen in love
with the rabbit and their story that they've seen on the site.
"I
set up the site to tell people that there are all these rabbits
out there looking for homes as a lot of people don't realise you
can get rabbits from rescue centres and not just from a pet shop."
The
site allows you to type in what sort of rabbit you are looking for,
its age and sex, and the locality - and is complete with photos.
"There's
a few sites like this for cats and dogs," said Tamsin, who
runs the site for free, "but I think this is the only one for
rabbits."
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| Blackberry
was bred to be fed to snakes and now needs a new home |
Between
50 and 100 new rabbits are added each month. The number of rabbits
looking for new homes leaps at this time of year when bunnies bought
for Easter are abandoned when their new owners realise they are
more costly and time consuming than first thought.
The
site also offers advice, information about fund-raising events,
lost and found details and appeals for help.
| lynne,
grimsby |
Tuesday,
20-Apr-2004 14:08:42 BST |
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| you
are doing great work.thankyou to the bbc for airing you pleas.best
wishes for the future |
| Catherine
Worth, London |
Saturday,
17-Apr-2004 19:07:53 BST |
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| I
have been to this site and it is superb -really well laid out
and a brilliant concept. I didn't realise that the designer
was so young - a big round of applause to Tamsin. |
| Susan
(Animal Ark), Inverness |
Monday,
19-Apr-2004 17:42:48 BST |
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| Hooray
Tamsin - you are doing excellent work. Speak to you soon Susan |
| Moggz,
kidderminster |
Thursday,
15-Apr-2004 22:29:23 BST |
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| It
is wonderful to see the work that Tamsin is doing, and so great
of the BBC to help publicise this and help to rehome the rabbits,
good on you both |
| Jackie
Hourahine, Walton-on-Thames |
Thursday,
15-Apr-2004 22:03:10 BST |
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| Great
story - well done to Tamsin, so nice to read of young people
doing a good service to animals and the community without profit
to themselves. |
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