Rescue Rabbit Tweed Heads

Little rescue rabbit Phoenix is the best bunny pet out. She is so gentle and not a bit worried about being handled by people. She is used to children as she was raised on her rescue rabbit mum in a home with three toddlers in Tweed Heads. She loves to sit with people in the Loungeroom. She and her twin sister are looking for an indoor home together. Both are the same gentle temperament, house trained.  Apply on our site on the Adoption page. Bunnies are Desexed vaccinated microchipped vet checked good teeth healthy. They are priceless so we simply ask a donation of your choice to help us with our rabbit rescue, rehabilitation & Rehoming charity. 

Rabbits for Sale Grafton

RABBIT ADOPTED

SQUISH HAS BEEN ADOPTED!!!

SQUISH is a very friendly orange rabbit boy up for adoption to a good home. He is 9 months old.

He arrived from Sydney surrendered by his owners who said their lifestyle had become too busy with work and travel to give him the attention he deserves.  

SQUISH has found a little bunny girl friend at The Rabbit Sanctuary called PANSY who is very timid but loves cuddles. We would like them to be adopted together.  What a gorgeous pair of bunny pets you would have. He gets on very well with other rabbits too so if you want a Desexed male rabbit friend for your girl rabbit he would be great.

Click to see more Rabbits for Adoption on our Adopt a Rabbit page.

View our recommended rabbit enclosures and hutches. We recommend an indoor playpen so your bunny is part of your family and an outdoor hutch with big grassy dog proof run. Look at some example photos.

Rabbits for Sale

We have over 80 abandoned pet rabbits to choose from that need a home.

We deliver to most places including Sydney, Newcastle, Central Coast, Melbourne 

If you live in any of these towns you can drive to adopt a rabbit:

Grafton, Coffs Harbour, Lismore, Port Macquarie, Casino, Woodburn, Ballina, Byron Bay, Lennox Head, Tweed Heads, Murwillumbah, Banora Point

Rabbit Price is a Donation of your own choice

What you get: 

Your rabbits will come to you desexed, vaccinated, microchipped, treated for internal and external parasites. Your adopted rabbits will have had a vet check by our vets at Riverbank Animal Hospital South Grafton and are adopted with all vet work done. 

What you give:

Cuddles, love, room to run and play, inclusion of your rabbit as part of your family.

Ongoing support for after you buy a rabbit:

We provide ongoing support for you and your adopted rabbits. 

You can phone, text or email us anytime for advice. 

You can exchange your rabbit for another rabbit if you are not happy with your choice.

If for any reason you cannot keep your rabbits we will take them back no questions asked. 

GIANT WHITE RABBITS FOR ADOPTION

Giant White Rabbits for Adoption

We are hoping that some of the giant white rabbits rescued from a research lab will get good homes this week.

If you are looking for a giant rabbit then one of the 7 Research Lab rabbits would make you a great pet. They need a big yard and love getting up on their rabbit tree house or the roof of a hutch.

They had lived their lives up to coming to The Rabbit Sanctuary in steel cages with artificial light and air conditioning. Now they can be free to smell the air and experience wind and rain and sunlight and friendship with other bunnies and people.

Giant white rabbits feel the earth under their feet for the first time

Rabbits for Adoption | Rabbits for Sale

Thinking of Rabbits for Sale? Consider thinking Rabbits for Adoption. Why not give a loving home to a couple of abandoned pet rabbits? We have around 50 currently available to choose from including Netherland Dwarf bunny TINY TOMMY shown in the photo. See our Rabbits Available tab above for more available rabbits. Tiny Tommy has now been rehomed. Thank you.

Netherland Dwarf Rabbit for Adoption "Tiny Tommy"

Adopt a pet rabbit

Rabbits for Sale

Looking at Rabbits for Sale in Gumtree or pet shops?

Thinking of buying a rabbit? 

Why not consider saving a life and adopting your baby rabbit or perhaps a pair of rabbits?
Every rabbit adopted makes a space for us to rescue another rabbit.

Look on our Available Rabbits page and see if you could fit one or two into your heart and home.

Adopt a Rabbit in Grafton NSW

Rabbits in Grafton

Many people think pet shop when they think of baby rabbits for sale. Not everyone in Grafton knows about The Rabbit Rescue Sanctuary where abandoned pet rabbits come in from all forms of abandonment including vets, council pounds, animal shelters, RSPCA, lost and found rabbits etc.

Local Grafton residents are coming to know about The Rabbit Rescue Sanctuary in Rushforth via South Grafton. There are always between 50 and 80 rescued pet rabbits in residence awaiting loving homes.

Most of our rescue rabbits fly to Sydney or Melbourne or other places like Taree, Port Macquarie and other regional towns.

Local adoptions tend to be in Yamba, Maclean, Iluka, Couttes Crossing or Nymboida.

We encourage people to set up playpens in their homes so the bunnies can be part of the family.

To have your rabbit in the house with you the first thing you need is a nice LITTER TRAY.
The photos below show a big litter tray with Rufus and Coco Premium Pet Bedding to soak up liquid covered with edible premium quality lucerne hay. The hay encourages the bunny to sit on his litter tray more and also stops any inclination to dig in the litter. The bedding is the best on the market and can be purchased online. Just Google it:) Put extra edible premium hay on the side for munching. By feeding hay on or above the litter tray your rabbit will spend more time on it and use it more.

Northern Rivers Rabbits for Adoption

NORTHERN RIVERS RABBITS FOR ADOPTION

 If you live in any of the towns below, you are within easy driving distance of The Rabbit Rescue Sanctuary. If you live in Sydney or Melbourne or other places we can deliver your rabbits.  We can discuss your needs re your pet rabbits and send you photos by email or sms.

Towns in the Northern Rivers area:

Ballina Byron Bay Casino Grafton Kyogle Lismore Tweed Heads

Alstonville Bangalow Bogangar Brunswick Heads Evans Head Iluka Lennox Head

Maclean Mullumbimby Murwillumbah Nimbin Nymboida Pottsville Suffolk Park Yamba

 If you are in one of the above areas you can make an appointment to visit us and view the rabbits first hand.  Coming to the Rabbit Sanctuary is an enjoyable experience and we welcome children.  We have a rabbit petting table around which the children and parents can sit and pat tame friendly pet rabbits and learn lots about how to interact with rabbits.  Friday from 3pm to 6pm is our open day. Please let us know by phone or text to Kim on 0416062947 if you are coming. We will prepare a rabbit care and information pack to give you for free.  That is part of our rabbit care education service.

Don't Shop! Adopt!

Come to Yhe Rabbit Sanctuary and adopt your next rabbit. Adopting saves lives!

Bunnies for Adoption

Adopt a rabbit! We have over 60 beautiful rabbits for adoption to good homes. View photos of bunnies for adoption. Don't look at the rabbits for sale. Instead, give a rescue rabbit a home.

Rabbits for adoption to good homes

If you are thinking of buying a rabbit you might consider adopting a rescue rabbit instead of visiting a pet shop. 

The Rabbit Sanctuary adoption Centre can offer you rabbits for sale at $25. The rabbits are Desexed, vaccinated, healthy and very friendly. 

You can set up a playpen in your home for your rabbits so they are part of the family. 

Baby Rabbit for Adoption to Good Home

Are you looking to buy a baby rabbit? Give the 'rabbits for sale' notices a miss and look at 'rabbits for adoption' as there is so much more that you get. BLUEY will be Desexed and vaccinated, wormed, vet checked, 100% healthy and so cuddly when you get him. He also comes with a rabbit carrier worth $30. WOW! Yes Wow! Call Kim now to get him for yourself! Phone: 0416062947 to entire about BLUEY the baby boy rabbit now! Transport can be arranged to your door or you can arrange a visit to The Rabbit Sanctuary in Northern NSW to meet him.

What is Rabbit Adoption?

Getting totally confused about the talk of "rabbits for sale" and "rabbits for adoption"?  "What is the difference between rabbits for sale and rabbits for adoption?" you might ask.  In this blog post we will try to explain.

Rabbits for Sale 

If you see a rabbits for sale sign or ad you can be fairly sure that the rabbit that is up for sale is one that was bred for the pet market as a product to sell to the public.  Sometimes a rabbit ends up being for sale when it fails to meet the rabbit breeder's criteria for showing or breeding purposes.  Some rabbit breeders breed for show and others breed purely to supply baby rabbits to the pet market.

Rabbits are for sale in many pet shops or from breeders that show as members of a rabbit club while some are sold by people who are known as 'backyard breeders'.  These are people who keep rabbits to breed baby bunnies to sell to the public or to pet shops.

Many cute baby rabbits are purchased from pet shops on impulse by the public.  Often these babies end up in the animal welfare system when they outgrow their baby cuteness.  Impulse rabbit buyers are often unaware of the needs and behaviours of a fully grown rabbit.   Often they begin to hate their rabbit when it becomes an adolescent full of hormones.  Often their rabbit begins to attack them and they don't know why so they surrender the rabbit to the RSPCA or a private animal shelter.  Unfortunately there are so many rabbits being surrendered to shelters that we get an imbalance in supply and demand and hundreds of beautiful pet rabbits are put to sleep (euthanised) across Australia on an ongoing basis as more are bred and sold than can be re-homed via the rabbit rescue systems currently in place.

By buying a baby rabbit from a breeder rather than adopting one you are missing out on quite a lot.  For example the baby rabbit will not be vaccinated or microchipped and will be quite costly.

(NB You might also like to read our article on "Why Desex My Rabbit?" which explains the benefits for the pet rabbit owner of desexing.)

Rabbits for Adoption

Rabbits are offered for adoption for various reasons.  As mentioned above, sometimes people buy a baby rabbit then tire of him or her or they find that their circumstances change and it becomes difficult or impossible to keep their pet rabbit.

Rabbits for adoption are ones that have either found their way into the RSPCA or a private animal or rabbit rescue shelters or are being privately offered for adoption by owners that feel they cannot keep them any longer.  For example this link leads to a private family trying to adopt baby bunnies that their rabbits gave birth to.

Rabbits in the animal welfare system are at high risk for a number of reasons, one being that due to the ongoing sale of rabbits in pet shops, sale by backyard breeders and the excess sold by registered rabbit club breeders their is a high chance that the rabbit will be put to sleep by lethal injection.  Please be aware that there are different rules at the various drop off points for abandoned rabbits.  All shelters have a limited capacity to take in and hold rabbits until they are found homes.  Often rabbits are abandoned or surrendered to veterinarians.  Some vets try to find the rabbits a home and even desex, vaccinate and microchip the rabbits before they go.  Sometimes the rabbits are put to sleep.

If you are thinking of surrendering your rabbit you should ask the vet or shelter what their policy is regarding whether they will put the rabbit to sleep or keep him or her until a home is found.  You should also consider getting some advice from the Rabbit Rescue Sanctuary about the options available to you.  There are many options and we can assist you if you email, text or call us on 0416 062 947.  See our contact page for more information.

 The Rabbit Sanctuary is a 'no-kill' shelter.  Rabbits that are surrendered are kept until they are adopted to good homes.  Some have been at the Rabbit Sanctuary for years because they have not been chosen by anyone to be their special pet.

If you have read this far you will be beginning to see that adopting a rabbit instead of buying one would help break the cycle.  If you choose to adopt a rabbit instead of buying one you will be saving a life because you make a space for another rabbit to be rescued and offered for adoption.

If you adopt a rabbit from the Rabbit Sanctuary you get lots of added value.  Here is what you get:
Your newly adopted rabbit will be:
Desexed
Vaccinated
Microchipped
Wormed
Mite Free
Vet checked for health
Vet checked for teeth
A Rabbit Care Booklet
A Rabbit House Name Tag by Pet Homes (You can click to get one free for your rabbit along with other free products to try!)
A discount voucher for a RabbitHouse by HoundHouse which we recommend as rabbits love them:)
A big glossy copy of The Pet Directory which contains care articles on rabbits and other pets

An angora and a lop rabbit for adoption

There are many rabbits available for adoption at the Rabbit Sanctuary in NSW

A mini lop available for adoption at the Rabbit Sanctuary.
Rabbits can be delivered to you by pet transport in NSW and VIC.