Shuman The Rabbit Haven Annmarie and Ashley Curly Sue

Welcome to The Rabbit Haven, a community of and for rabbits and their guardians, serving the Bay Area since 1987.

The Rabbit Haven rescues injured and abandoned rabbits and accepts surrendered rabbits from the general public or the SPCA in Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, San Benito and Monterey Counties.  We then work to place these rescued rabbits into loving permanent or foster homes. The Rabbit Haven also works in the community, at schools, and with our local SPCA shelter and other education groups to educate the public on rabbit care, feeding, grooming, medical needs, social requirements and behaviors.

HOW YOU CAN HELP - THE BUNNIES NEED YOU!

News and Videos From the Haven
Volunteer - Help us rescue and care for rabbits in need. Read more about how you can help bunnies in need.
Foster - Our system is over-capacity we are in desperate need of quality, reliable foster sites.View Our Application Form
Adopt - View our Adoption Showcase to see rabbits currently available through the Haven and local area shelters Fill out our Pre-Adoption Questionnaire and bring it to our Adoption Day Events to get a head start on the paperwork. View our Adoption Contract
Shop - at The Rabbit Haven Online Store
Donate Make a PayPal donation 
or donate by check
GoodSearch -  It's simple. You use GoodSearch.com like any other search engine — the site is powered by Yahoo! — but each time you search, money is generated for The Rabbit Haven! Read More About How to Use Good Search...
Support Our Sponsors - The Rabbit Haven receives generous donations from many sources. See a list of our sponsors now.

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Image of a Rescued Special Needs Rabbit The Haven's Special Needs Rescues

The Rabbit Haven rescues many rabbits that require extra expenses for veterinary care and medications.

Find out more about our special needs bunnies.

Please help if you can!
Major crisis in Santa Cruz County Shelters
Santa Cruz County shelters have been hit with several large dumps of rabbits in the last few days. These are the result of large abuse and neglect cases where rabbits were confiscated.
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Large group of abused rabbits rescued
Picture of rescued rabbits The Rabbit Haven recently participated in a rescue of a large number of abused rabbits that were being raised as food.
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BunnyFest 2008
Bunny Fest logo BunnyFest 2008 will take place on May 18th at For Other Living Things in Sunnyvale. The Rabbit Haven will be participating again this year.
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Help us win the Cutest Baby Pet Contest
The Rabbit Haven has entered a photo in an online photo contest sponsored by petsource.org. We can win $1000 if our photo is selected. Find out how to help!

Update: May 12, 2008

The picture posted by The Rabbit Haven of two rescued baby bunnies was selected as the winner of the contest! Petsource.org has been in contact with us, and we should be receiving the prize from them soon. Thanks to everyone who voted to help us with the contest! The Haven will use the prize money to pay for food, vet care and spay/neuter for our rescued bunnies.
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Princess Anzia needs our healing wishes
Princess Anzia is a darling Jersey Wooly bunny, who has become very ill from a serious infection in her mouth. We are working hard to save her life.

Update: April 16, 2008

We are very sad to report that Princess Anzia lost her battle and passed over the Rainbow Bridge yesterday. We at The Haven are grieving her loss.
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Bunny Missing a Paw Rescued
Jossalin came into a shelter missing a back foot and suffering from an infection at the wound site, and was rescued by The Haven. She may require amputation surgery.

Update: February 20, 2008
Jossalin is completely healed, and ready for adoption! She has her own video too!
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Featured Rabbits

Wisp

Meet Wisp

Gorgeous spayed female gray Lion Head. She is a true princess and deserves to be treated as such. Wisp's people recently moved from a spacious home to a small apartment and Wisp was not at all happy with the new living quarters. She is used to having lots of room to run and zoom at top speed. She especially misses the long carpeted hallway she used to zoom down do a lap around her living room, then zoom back up the hall -- what fun that was!

She needs to go to a bunny savvy home where you can provide her with all the love, care and environmental stimulation she needs to be happy and healthy. Wisp may be interested in a bunny companion as well. We can help with the match-making.

Contact Auntie Heather to find out more

Jossalin

Jossalin

Our lovely Jossalin came to The Haven in mid November 2007 with a horrific injury to her back right leg. Her foot was completely gone and the stump was dead with the bone sticking out. After she was stable and gained some weight, Jossalin's leg was amputated at the mid thigh. Dr. Carolynn Harvey of Chabot Vet Hospital in Hayward took excellent care of our girl and treated her like a queen. Jossalin came through the surgery with flying colors. After her recovery, physical therapy and lots of TLC she is now ready to find her forever home.

Contact Auntie Heather to find out more

More Adoptable Bunnies at the Haven:

Other Services We Provide News & Upcoming Events

We also provide the following services:

Matchmaking & Bonding - looking for a friend for your spayed or neutered rabbit. Auntie Heather is an expert Bunny Matchmaker.

Alternative Energy Healing - Is your bunny feeling under the weather? We have a certified Reiki Master who will gladly send Reiki to your bunny friend. Note: Reiki is not a substitute for proper veterinary care, rather it is used as complimentary healing method to traditional Western Medicine.

Free Nail Trims - We provide free nail trims (for your bunny that is) at all our adoption events.

Bunny Home Check-Ups

Bunny sitting services available through Rabbit Haven:

Holiday rabbit care for your bunny. Need a great, fun, safe place for your bunny during your holiday vacation? If so, Contact Heather for bunny care details- Trained bunny sitters will care for your bunny while you are away.

Call Heather 831 239-7119 or email director@therabbithaven.org
Oxbow food, TLC, playtime provided. Book early!

For Families, Losing A Home Can Also Mean Losing The Family Pets

Home foreclosures are forcing companion animals out of their homes and into shelters all over the country. See this special report from CBS news

PetSmart to Stop Selling Rabbits

PetSmart is discontinuing rabbit sales at their stores and will no longer be selling rabbits in any of their stores once the remaining rabbits are gone. What a a wonderful Holiday gift for the rabbits and all our rescue community members who worked so hard at responding to the problem. This is great news for all the communities that had PetSmart rabbits too. It was such a shock to see rabbits for sale at PetSmart! We have learned that it was because of the strong vocal opposition of animal lovers across the United States that they have reconsidered their choice and decided to stop. We encourage you to take a minute and write to PetSmart to thank them for their decision, and let them know that it was the right choice. Please address your thanks to PetSmart care of:

PetSmart
John Alpaugh
Vice President, Specialty Merchandising
19601 North 27th Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85027
(623) 580-6100
corpcommunications@ssg.petsmart.com

Holiday Shoppers Beware: Six Major Retailers Selling Real Fur as Faux

Shoppers Beware: Major retailers are selling animal fur as faux fur .
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Other Ways to Help:

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Would you like a portion of your purchase to make a difference in the lives of homeless bunnies?  

Then sign up with iGive and CatalogCity, enter Rabbit Haven as your 'cause,' and hundreds of retailers will donate to The Rabbit Haven every time you shop - at no cost to you! 

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ALERT- Desperately Seeking Foster Sites!

The Rabbit Haven is brimming full of bunnies that need foster or adoptive home NOW! PLEASE help us help them and the shelters we work with. Call Heather if you can foster or it you want to adopt even one! T: (831) 239-7119 or Email: director@therabbithaven.org


Pooh

Little Baby Pooh died after a Veterinarian advised his people to treat him with Frontline. His little sister survived but now suffers from seizures. His people are heartbroken. Please do not use Frontline on or around your rabbits! Click the banner above to read more about the dangers of Frontline and other flea treatments.


In Memoriam - Remembering beloved bunnies who have crossed the Rainbow Bridge

The Rabbit Haven now has a MySpace site. Stop by and visit us on MySpace!
The Rabbit Haven is on Facebook. Check out our site!
See The Rabbit Haven's LiveJournal site.
You can also visit us on Petfinder.
The Rabbit Haven's website has won a Munchkin Award for excellent rabbit oriented websites. Thank you to Boing Online for choosing us!

A Rabbit Haven adoption show

Girl in a pen with a Bunny at an adoption show

Boy with a Bunny

Free nail trims at every show!

Bunny getting a nail trim

Kaleb and his new Mom

Kaleb Finds a new Home

Aurora finds her forever home

Aurora Finds her Forever Home

View our Photo Album of Recently Adopted Rabbits

Please pardon our dust. The Rabbit Haven is remodeling this website!