When we got word that there were rabbits living in shopping carts and broken down cages, outdoors in the 100+ degree heat, we knew we had to act. We’re working, partnered with humane law enforcement investigating. We were able to remove 7 rabbits from the property, one pregnant, and all in horrible shape, dehydrated, covered in deer ticks. The rescue was one of 6 large-scale rescues we’ve done in the last 24 months. Our shelter constantly steps up to get involved with these kind of operations, and that’s why we need you.
WATCH THE RESCUE HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYXz6vdWKio&feature=youtu.be
DONATE HERE: http://littlemiracles.chipin.com/life-saving-emergency-rescues
JUNE 9th 2012 9am – 9pm Outdoor WORK DAY: Please help us landscape and put up four exercise runs for the rabbits to enjoy the outdoors SAFELY. The play areas (called “rabbitats”) will be shaded, and will allow the rabbits to have plenty of running room, as well as obstacles to climb, run through, a safe surface for unbridled digging and lots of things to investigate as well as check out – keeping shelter animals spirits up is a top priority! LMRR staff and friends from the Boy Scouts, plus every additional human being we can round up will be exceptionally helpful.
We’re currently involved in helping to bail 35 rabbits out of a bad situation: Left forgotten in a barn – bunnies that were left at a farm are now waiting in a stifling hot barn. We need foster homes, transport help and donations. We’re also looking for other shelters and rescue groups to make a little room for a few bunnies from the transport.
We need to raise $5,000 – to be able to pay our bills, pay off the vet debt, spay and neuter ALL of the rescue bunnies, finish our veterinary clinic room and be able to get our bunny runs up and in use. We’re getting closer to our goal -We’re at $1516 in just four days!! That’s AWESOME!! Keep it going, guys. We’re now just $3484 from our goal – that’s $100 for each of the 35 rabbits that need to be rescued. Every donation you make from now until June 8th will count towards our goal and be DOUBLED!! So make your dollars go twice as far – donate today, and we get twice the amount.
http://littlemiracles.chipin.com/operationemptythebarn
Please help me. I need to get out of this barn! 😦
PLEASE JOIN US: March 31st, April 1st & April 7th 11am-4pm for Little Miracles’ Biggest Easter Bash EVER!!
INCREDIBLE ENTERTAINMENT PROVIDED BY: Steve Hawk and EMS Entertainment! Lots of Music – Lots of fun!
View our event links on Facebook:
- http://www.facebook.com/events/363252953706150/
- http://www.facebook.com/events/372210372803575/
- http://www.facebook.com/events/128421807283769/
Come visit Little Miracles Rabbit Rescue at Dambly’s Garden Center for a HUGE event to benefit the animals at the shelter… come enjoy crafts, carnival games and snacks for the whole family! ONLY FIVE MINUTES FROM THE RESCUE!! PICTURES with the Easter Bunny, and pictures with Hampton, our 33 lb Spokesbunny. Meet over a dozen adoptable rabbits and other small animals from the shelter! Learn all about responsible pet ownership.
BRING YOUR BUNNY! Free Grooming – Free Spring / Easter Photos – Free Education Information!
Easter Egg Hunt: THOUSANDS of filled eggs – prizes for the Golden, Silver and Bronze PRIZE eggs – win a HUGE stuffed Easter Basket and more! Purchase a wrist band for the Egg Hunt: $5 per child – all Egg Hunt admission benefits the Animal Shelter!
Free Easter Egg Hunt bags provided by Trader Joes, or Purchase a re-usable colourful tote bag for $5, be kind to the environment and your child can decorate the bag to take home with all his or her loot!
Egg Hunt for kids 8 & Under: 1 PM
Egg Hunt for kids 9 & Up: 3 PM
DONATION DROP OFF: We’ll have large bins out to collect shelter donations for the animals we rescue. You can purchse HAY, LITTER and RABBIT FOOD right here at Dambly’s Garden Center at ROCK BOTTOM PRICES and donate them without ever lifting a single bag!
Full bale of Timothy Hay – $7.50 50 lbs of rabbit food – $15.00 Pelleted Litter for Litter Boxes: $5 / 40 lbs!
Other Donations You Can Drop Off:
Gift Cards for Dambly’s Garden Center, Target, Walmart, Home Depot, AC Moore, Michael’s Crafts or ANY supermarket!
- Pet carriers (cat sized or medium, hard or soft-sided)
- Bird Toys (the hanging kind, or hard plastic)
- Lg round Shop Vac (Shop Vac brand) Filters (Available at Wal-Mart and Home Depot)
- Towels (bath sized are best, but hand towels, bath towels, etc – stained and torn is FINE!)
- Bunny toys (hard plastic baby toys, balls of any sort – wiffle balls, plastic balls, cat/dog toy balls, etc, cat toys, dog toys, hanging bird toys, etc) – can be purchased from binkybunny.com, busybunny.com or bunnybytes.com
- Plastic Water Bottles (water bottle holders, new tops, etc)
- Trash Bags (large black bags or drawstring kind – WE ESPECIALLY LIKE “Contractor Bags” from Home Depot! )
- Stamps (rolls, sheets, you name it!)
- Bleach, laundry and dish detergent (Powder or Liquid), hand soap
- Revolution or Advantage for cats, 8-in-1 flea&tick spray for small animals. (We use a LOT of this!)
- Pet play yards / pens, cages for hamsters, guinea pigs, rats, chinchillas, rabbits and more!
- Metal dog crates
We’ll also have Little Miracles T-Shirts and more for sale – show your support with a brightly coloured LMRR shirt! Wear your LMRR Shirt to show support and receive a FREE PHOTO WITH HAMPTON to be featured on our website!
The 2012 Jingle Ball Event RSVP isn’t necessary, but let your friends and family know you’re coming, and invite them along with our facebook link; The Jingle Ball on facebook!
EMS Entertainment’s DJ Steve Hawk is hosting the event – bringing life to the party, as well as holiday music and popular tunes to keep your toes tapping and the energy high!
Bring a donation to put under the tree- the shelter animals appreciate it. There is NO COST to attend the event. Free food & drinks, free pet grooming for your small pets, free holiday photos, and so much MORE! Adoptions of rabbits (pre approval needed, please call Pam at 856 685 4061), guinea pigs, mice, rats and hamsters!
The 2011 Jingle Ball is going to blow your mind. THOUSANDS of dollars worth of chinese auction prizes, Including a Real Coach Purse, Round Trip airline tickets to anywhere in the US, scratch-off lottery tickets, Dozens of Restaurant and Store gift cards, food related baskets such as Italian Cooking & Coffee & Chocolate and SO MUCH MORE.
For the kids – Face Painting, Moon Bounce, Carnival Games and SO MUCH MORE!
This is going to be an AMAZING event, and we’re expecting hundreds of visitors. PLEASE COME ON OUT AND JOIN US!
As we move into the busy winter months (yay! Adoptions!) – our LMRR staff is getting an over-haul and we’ll be training dozens of new volunteers and move over to being open 6 days a week, rather than just by appointment. But with this upgraded scheduling and lots of public interaction, our staffers need a professional look! We’d love your opinion on our new volunteer staff shirts.
Okay, so those are the shirts. The front will have our LMRR Logo as well as “POO CREW”, and the back will say “STAFF” or “VOLUNTEER” – we haven’t decided yet. We need your opinion – so please drop by and vote in the poll:
Little Miracles Rabbit Rescue Inc, a south Jersey small animal shelter, dedicated to helping rabbits, guinea pigs, chinchillas, hamsters and other small & furry animals is in need of volunteers. We received our 501(c)3 tax exempt status on July 14th, retroactive to November 11th, 2010 – so all donations made to the shelter are fully tax deductible. As we are moving over to new shelter management software, and re-vamping our book keeping system (from the stone age, a paper ledger, lol!) – we are also gearing up for our grand re-opening later this summer.
Newsletters are being mailed with invitations, and we are opening our organization to memberships: Members will have access to our new member’s only website, with blogs, photos, videos and more. Members will be able to vote and participate in special projects and activities, and be eligible for free drawings and raffles, gifts and more!
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
Junior Volunteers
Volunteers 10-16 with parent or guardian present (any family member over the age of 18) may volunteer one or more days per week, or as little as once a month. We will be holding a volunteer training class on FRIDAY AUGUST 5th at 6pm for JUNIOR volunteers. Please bring a friend!
Volunteer Positions Available:
- Animal Care Attendants
(2-3 hour shifts, as often as 3 days per week, or as little as once per month) – Schedule is very flexible. Animal care attendants are responsible for feeding, watering & giving hay & fresh produce to the animals, sanitizing cages & play areas, petting & socializing the animals, changing litter-pans, vacuuming and sweeping the living areas and other animal-care related tasks. No experience is necessary, we will happily train you.
- Online Crew:
We are currently seeking online volunteers who can meet at the rescue the first FRIDAY evening of every month at 6pm. We are looking to hire a volunteer to run our online blog, a volunteer to handle kennel organization & our petfinder account, as well as a photographer (no experience necessary). On FIRST FRIDAY, we will update kennel cards, organize and add any new animals to our online database, select a “pet of the month”. Volunteers must be 15 & up, and have some experience with computer use. They must have internet access at home, although much of the work can be done at the shelter. If you’re interested in joining our FIRST FRIDAY crew, please let me know ASAP so you can attend our first meeting, Friday August 5th from 6-8pm.
- Volunteer Leader(s) Needed:
We are also currently seeking veterinary and vet tech students, or other professionals in the animal-care industry (dog groomers, those with experience volunteering at other animal shelters, or working in a pet store, pet supply store, kennel, training facility, vet hospital, boarding & grooming, etc.)
We are looking for a Volunteer Coordinator, who has approximately 20 hours a week to dedicate to assisting our shelter with coordination of our volunteer program. This person will be needed at the shelter for approximately 5-10 hours a week, as well as online and at home making phone calls.
- Follow Up Telephone Volunteer
We also need a Follow-Up Coordinator, who will follow-up with all of our adoptive families, checking on the animals who have gone home, referring those with questions to our hotline, and taking notes. This person must be comfortable on the phone. NO SOLICITING or TELEMARKETING will be done – this is purely contact with our adoptive families to help trouble-shoot, answer questions and keep our rescue aware of how rabbits who have been adopted are now doing in their new homes.
Foster Program Director
We’re looking for a Foster Home Director, who need to be available 2-4 hours per month, as well as a few hours a month for phone calls, monitoring our animals in foster care, keeping a binder organized of all the animals who are in foster care, and logging all loaned equipment to foster families. This person may do some foster outreach, helping to seek new foster homes, including Craig’s List and Petfinder postings, newspaper ads, etc at the cost of the rescue.
If you’re interested in any positions with our ALL VOLUNTEER non-profit group, we would be VERY grateful.
For all new volunteers, our first meeting will be FRIDAY AUGUST 5th at 4pm, Junior Volunteers will be asked to arrive at 6pm.
Please contact the shelter via telephone at 856 210 6028 or at LittleMiraclesRR@aol.com if you plan to attend!
The yard sale (Saturday June 4th) will be located at 2308 Auburn Ave, Atco NJ 08004. Tons of donated items will be for sale – 100% of the profits benefit our shelter. If you have items to donate, please contact us at littlemiraclesrr@aol.com
Come to Our Spring Fling: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=188961407801308
TWO DAY OPEN HOUSE 11am – 7pm, Sat & Sun April 23/24th
2308 Auburn Ave Atco NJ 08004
EASTER EGG HUNT WITH PRIZES * FACE PAINTING * SNACKS * OPEN HOUSE WITH OVER 70 BUNNIES * FREE SPRING PHOTOS * BRING YOUR RABBIT FOR “SPA DAY” and get FREE SPRING PHOTOS of your bunnies, all dressed up for the season! FREE PHOTO OF YOUR CHILDREN w/ THE BUNNIES * ADOPTION SPECIALS (Pre-approved only: Call Pam, 856 685 4061)
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What can you bring to help the bunnies at the shelter?
-paper towels – toilet paper -stamps -large black trash bags / yard bags -rabbit safe litter -guinea pig food -fresh veggies/fruits (romaine, kale, spinach, apples, bananas, celery, carrots, herbs, berries, etc) -small bags of alfalfa hay or Oxbow bunny food for special needs bunnies
Dambly’s Garden Center, Agway & Kirby Brothers in Medford carry pelleted litter for $5-$7 a bag, and 50 lb bags of rabbit food for $11-$17…. we LOVE donations of bunny food!
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Easter each year is a BAD HARE DAY for rabbits all over the country – as people buy impulse pets for their small children, so many of these beautiful and beloved animals are quickly cast aside shortly after the holiday, or worse, suffer and languish banished to a back yard hutch or die young deaths at the hands of uneducated and unprepared owners.
THE OPEN HOUSE
This year – bring your family and friends to Little Miracles Rabbit Rescue over Easter weekend. Our open house will feature all of our small animal residents – nearly 100 beautiful bunnies, as well as rats, ferrets, guinea pigs, hamsters, chinchillas and more.
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FREE FACE PAINTING!!! BOUNCE HOUSE!!
HUGE EASTER EGG HUNT!! (1:30 pm both days!!)
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY: Easter Egg Hunt @ LMRR
For all kids under 12 – at 1:30pm BOTH DAYS!
Visit the rescue on Sunday and all kids under 12 can compete to collect thousands of Easter Eggs with treats, toys, candy and prizes. Find the “Golden Egg” to win one of several huge gift baskets!
Entry to the Easter Egg Hunt is just $5 per child – and ALL proceeds benefit the shelter bunnies
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FREE PHOTOS OF YOUR CHILDREN / FAMILY WITH THE BUNNIES!!
Don’t go to a photo studio this spring, where they will take photos of your kids with baby bunnies who then get discarded like props after the photo shoot! Help support the rescue, and have your family’s photos taken with all of OUR beautiful bunnies!!
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MAKE MINE CHOCOLATE
For sale at the rescue – STUFFED BUNNIES and CHOCOLATE BUNNIES – help promote that Rabbits are a 10-12 YEAR COMMITMENT and NOT a holiday toy! Bring your friends, family and kids to buy a chocolate bunny or stuffed bunnies instead of a REAL bunny this Easter. All proceeds from the sale go to benefit the shelter bunnies!
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FOOD, FUN and FRIENDS!
Both days of open house will feature access to all areas of LMRR including the Carrot Corner Store. Impress your family & friends by bringing them to pet and snuggle all of our bunnies – have your bunny(s) groomed at our spa, and on Sunday, bring your kids under 12 for the huge Easter Egg Hunt. There’ll be free food & drinks for all both days.
What better way to spend Easter 2011 – help us raise money, find homes, recruit new volunteers, and promote adoption & education for house rabbits.
Within weeks of Easter we recieve DOZENS of calls from shelters needing our help (and space). Help us stop the cycle of Easter Bunnies before it begins.
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ADOPTION FRENZY!
Saturday is our featured ADOPTION FRENZY day. Adoptions MUST be pre-approved before Saturday April 23rd, by calling Pam at 856 685 4061 to recieve our promotion…. but each adoption will include:
– Your choice of adoptable bunny or bunnies
-A “starter kit” including a food dish, water bottle, food, hay AND litter!
-A care packet full of information about your new pet.
-A special gift basket for your new pet to enjoy, packed full of edible treats and bunny-safe toys.
-An easter basket for the bunny’s new human family to enjoy.
FOR THIS DATE ONLY, the adoption fee for solo bunnies will be just $60!
PAIRS of adoptable bunnies will be just $100.
ALL VISITORS TO THE RESCUE FOR THE OPEN HOUSE WILL RECIEVE A COUPON FOR $10 OFF FUTURE ADOPTIONS!!
*** REMEMBER: No animals will be adopted out this weekend unless they were PRE-APPROVED THROUGH PAM – 856 685 4061 ***
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Our CARROT CORNER STORE!
Our fully stocked rabbit rescue shop will be open – loaded with awesome and amazing products to entertain your new pet. We also feature a fully stocked supply store, with food, hay, litter and more.
BUNNY SPA SESSIONS
Visit with all the adoptable bunnies… bring your own bunny for a SPA TREATMENT!
Our spa package includes nail clipping, scent gland cleaning, ear & eye cleaning, brushing/dematting/de-shedding, a healthy fresh-scent spray, a custom Easter/Spring photo of your newly groomed bunny, as well as a free health assesment!
Instead of the normal cost of $16 – the entire spa package is just $10 – or if you have multiple bunnies, just $8 per bunny! Our grooming expert Morgan will be busy all day both days – be sure to bring your bunny to be spoiled rotten.
New facebook page for “Bunny Rescue”:
www.facebook.com/littlemiraclesrabbitrescue
BE SURE TO ADD US! “Bunny Rescue” misses you!!
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