A letter to our friends and supporters.
Friends and Supporters – It’s with a heavy heart that I bring you this message, our staff is very scared, and all the kill shelters who depend on us to prevent the euthanization of all the small animals they take in are all worried very much also. Losing Little Miracles would be absolutely devastating – thousands of rabbits will be impacted and there will be nowhere for them to go. And the 160 pets currently in our care? Their future would also be up in the air.
We need donations to keep our shelter from closing down: http://littlemiracles.chipin.com/save-lmrr
For two years, our shelter’s president and the rescue itself have been under attack – mostly by one extremely disgruntled person who has a personal vendetta and whose goal is to hurt our shelter president, Kristie Corson, and if it means shutting down the shelter and killing hundreds of bunnies, that is the least of the person’s concerns. Identity theft, personal threats, threats of violence including threats to burn down the shelter – personal attacks such as trying to illegally obtain medical records, public posting of Kristie’s personal information, photographs and social security number – as well as vicious libelous and slanderous lies… the attacker will stop at nothing. From calling the Department of Children and Families, alleging everything from child abuse to drug abuse, to complaining to the SPCA of NJ and the County and State Health Departments – ALL the complaints have been closed, UNFOUNDED and Little Miracles has persevered.
But after a recent barrage of anonymous complaints from ONE PERSON, hiding behind dozens of fake email addresses and fake facebook profiles – the New Jersey Department of Health returned for a re-inspection, and this time found dozens of items to pick apart, including forcing Little Miracles to apply for township kennel permits (that apply to DOGS, not rabbits) – to making structural changes to our shelter (like additional lighting, new flooring, repainting walkways and kennels that have worn epoxy paint). They have told us to put the rabbits on WIRE flooring, to remove hay from the rabbit’s litter pans (and remove the litter pans entirely!) – and absolutely ludicrous things like storing hay in airtight containers (that causes dangerous mold!) and refusing to allow the rabbits to exercise in supervised outdoor play yards, demanding that we keep them on LEASHES or fill their play areas with CONCRETE. It’s very upsetting.
What are we doing? EVERYTHING WE POSSIBLY CAN. We are rushing and working SO hard to make all the changes we can to pass our inspection and remain open with no breaks in service!
What can you do to help? Please donate. http://littlemiracles.chipin.com/save-lmrr
We need volunteers, now more than ever before. We need foster homes to support us and help us reduce the number of bunnies at the shelter during construction. And more than ever before, we need donations to help make all the necessary changes. We’ve already raise $3,000 and paid off a huge gas bill ($867) that had accumulated. We’ve purchased many of the construction supplies, gotten architectural drawings and permits to make the changes necessary. But we’re still nearly $9,000 short of completing ALL the things needed to keep us open. Due to a broken A/C unit – we have a nearly $1800 electric bill that must be paid down NOW. And we have obtained an AMAZING civil attorney who specializes in internet harassment, and libel and slander cases, who is willing to immediately fight the harassers, put a stop to the attacks and unlawful false reports, as well as fight the Health Department from trying to force us to follow statues that CLEARLY are outlined for DOG POUNDS, rather than the USDA’s national standards for the care of RABBITS and RODENTS. We need an experienced trial lawyer who is familiar with our needs and who has the power and ability to make those changes, and we’re confident we have the right woman for the job – but we still have to cover the $1500-$2500 retainer needed to immediately put her to work sending out hundreds of subpoenas and cease and desist orders to our attackers.
We need volunteers, now more than ever before. We need foster homes to support us and help us reduce the number of bunnies at the shelter during construction. And more than ever before, we need donations to help make all the necessary changes. We’ve already raise $3,000 and paid off a huge gas bill ($867) that had accumulated. We’ve purchased many of the construction supplies, gotten architectural drawings and permits to make the changes necessary. But we’re still nearly $9,000 short of completing ALL the things needed to keep us open. Due to a broken A/C unit – we have a nearly $1800 electric bill that must be paid down NOW. And we have obtained an AMAZING civil attorney who specializes in internet harassment, and libel and slander cases, who is willing to immediately fight the harassers, put a stop to the attacks and unlawful false reports, as well as fight the Health Department from trying to force us to follow statues that CLEARLY are outlined for DOG POUNDS, rather than the USDA’s national standards for the care of RABBITS and RODENTS. We need an experienced trial lawyer who is familiar with our needs and who has the power and ability to make those changes, and we’re confident we have the right woman for the job – but we still have to cover the $1500-$2500 retainer needed to immediately put her to work sending out hundreds of subpoenas and cease and desist orders to our attackers.
What will it take to SAVE Little Miracles Rabbit Rescue? Right now – the best thing you can do is donate your time, and even more so, your money. In the past you have been supportive of our live-saving efforts. We know that you love the animals we care for as much as we do, and we need you to speak up in support of our rescue with your dollars. We can put in dozens of 18 hour days – of 120 hour work weeks. We can follow the rules, hunt down discounted supplies, but we can’t do it without you. Please dig down deep. Anything you can do will make a difference in the lives of our shelter pets.
You can donate to the shelter with paypal (our email to send money is HouseRabbitList@aol.com) – by making a deposit directly into our Wells Fargo bank account (email us to ask how) or by paying with any debit or credit card here:http://littlemiracles.chipin.com/save-lmrr (If you have questions about using “chip in” – please email or call us for step-by-step instructions). Or you can make a credit or debit card donation by phone by calling us at 856 210 6028.
One of the best things to come of this is the improvements to our facility, including the completion of our surgical center to do in house LOW COST spay/neuter (for us, and the public, the first such clinic in the whole state!)- a beautiful new (to us!) industrial dish washer to save us HOURS of weekly work, a gorgeous new adoption center and pet-family meeting rooms, and completion of our outdoor exercise area, permanently bettering the lives of all of our residents. Lastly, to comply with the health department’s demands regarding cleaning measures and primary enclosure requirements – we’re going to build beautiful tiled, easy-to-clean housing units that will allow us to house all our pets in a cleaner, easier and more healthy manner.
What can you get for donating (other than the knowledge that you’re SAVING LIVES)?
Each newly build housing unit will cost us roughly $84 (we’re building more than 70)- and for a donation of $100, you will receive a dedication plaque for a memorial to, in honor of or as a gift to any person(s) or pet(s). Donors over $75 will receive a S.O.S. Save Our Shelter T-shirt, so you can show off your pride and support of our work! For over $150 – you get an SOS T-shirt AND a Little Miracles hoodie (the awesome soft ones we sold last winter – they were a HUGE hit), and for over $250, you’ll get the dedication plaque, the SOS T-shirt, the Hoodie AND a gift basket for your pets. Your donation will help us AND get you some awesome goodies?
Each newly build housing unit will cost us roughly $84 (we’re building more than 70)- and for a donation of $100, you will receive a dedication plaque for a memorial to, in honor of or as a gift to any person(s) or pet(s). Donors over $75 will receive a S.O.S. Save Our Shelter T-shirt, so you can show off your pride and support of our work! For over $150 – you get an SOS T-shirt AND a Little Miracles hoodie (the awesome soft ones we sold last winter – they were a HUGE hit), and for over $250, you’ll get the dedication plaque, the SOS T-shirt, the Hoodie AND a gift basket for your pets. Your donation will help us AND get you some awesome goodies?
Please. Help save Little Miracles Rabbit Rescue, so we can help save lives for many years to come.
Don’t let the Health Department bully us into regulations that make no sense and don’t protect proper care of our pets!
Speak up – sign the petition: http://www.change.org/petitions/save-little-miracles-rabbit-rescue
THANK YOU. We need you MORE THAN EVER BEFORE – Please save our shelter!!
With all our love and thanks, Kristie and the Little Miracles FAMILY of Volunteers
and of course, all the bunnies and other small pets whose lives depend on us – and YOU.
Please share our story – forward this to your pet-loving friends and family members and let them know that your favorite shelter NEEDS your HELP!
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