Hop On Home Rabbit Sanctuary, Inc.

Hop on Home bunnies need your help. We are a 501c3 non profit with a mission to shelter and care for abandoned and relinquished rabbits in the capital region and beyond in NYS. We give those adoptable a chance at finding a forever family and for those unadoptable a home for life.

Everyday out top priority is giving the best care to the rabbits that have come to Hop on Home. We have had 257 adoptions this year and have currently 171 rabbits left in our care. Can you imagine the vet care expense for 428 pets at home…… Realistically could you imagine for 5 pets ( that’s a lot). Take a moment and think about the cost of vet expenses for your pet at home…..the vaccine, the spay or neuter, the flea and tick treatments, the dental issues, the ear infections, the injury, the stitches, the broken bone, the xrays, the lab work, the cancer testing…… it all adds up. Now multiply that by 428. That’s a lot of expenses. Over $50,000 in expenses last year. We do everything in our power to save lives and spay and neuter to control the rabbit population. Some lives we saved that stick out the most this year are Daphne a rabbit dumped and left in a property where the people were away. They found her alive but malnourished, dehydrated, and flea ridden. You could feel her skeleton. Her chances of survival were slim but with vet care and a foster family to give the needed care she survived and now has a family of her own. There was Russell who arrived and couldn’t walk. He had a large lump on a front leg and was sunburned and weak. Someone dumped him and a Good Samaritan contacted us for help. Russell was thought to have cancer but after testing we learned it was not. He now is a permanent sanctuary bunny full of life. Then there was Grace. She was found on the streets. Her ear torn off and missing a leg we needed immediate medical care. She survived, was a strong bun and was pregnant to boot. She is now adopted by her foster family and has the life she deserves. We deal with situations and medical needs you never want to see or think about. In this last few months of the year our budget has dwindled and we need help to keep the high level of care going for the remainder of the year and the start of the new year for the rabbits like Daphne, Russell and Grace. Please help the rabbits that we’re caring for to give them every opportunity to thrive just like Daphne, Russell and Grace.

Please give today to support our efforts

We’re raising money to benefit Hop On Home Rabbit Sanctuary, Inc., and any donation will help make an effort to support our veterinary needs. This year we need some veterinary assistance. We have done amazing things to help bunnies have improved health and we have had some tough days with bunnies with cancer as well. Not everyday in the world of rescue is there a happy ending but with your help we can have as many as possible. This year we had Tito as a baby break his leg and we were lucky to be able to have his class room that fosters him raise some funds for the expenses but we still had the remainder of the bill. They fixed a vertical fracture and put in a Titanium plate with screws so he could keep his leg. We had a bunny with such severe parasites at deaths door that they spent several weeks at Cornell’s animal hospital and they recovered. We lost two buns to cancer this year from the same litter at 2 yrs old but we have hope for the other three litter mates but they will be permanent residence because we would never want to put that on an adoptive family if there’s a genetic link. We helped a fire/hoarding of 18 that came in all at once and needed minor medical treatment but need 16 spays and 2 neuters that weren’t planned. We just took in from code enforcement 4 adult rabbits 1 mother with 4 babies and 1 pregnant doe. She just had 5. That’s 13 spays and neuters not planned. We have jib who needs his teeth trimmed every 6 weeks for malocclusion. We’ve taken in countless strays that all need spaying and neutering and some with parasite treatment plus a bunny that came with a broken leg and recently a paralyzed bunny that needs on going care until a family adopts then just add regular bunny care for antibiotics X-rays tick and flea treatments for those stray buns. It all adds up and here’s a twist our veterinary office is changing their billing system so while we get our monthly billing statements they’d like us to get to a zero balance for the change. We need some help to keep helping those unexpected cases and transitioning to the new billing procedures. We’re asking for your help to keep high standard of care moving forward during this time. We need some help for the bunnies care and to keep the bills paid as we transition through this time. We ask you give what you can. Please remember your donation is tax deductible because we are a 501c3. We suggest for larger donors you discuss with our tax professional. Donors of $2,500 or higher will be listed on our legacy wall at our adoption center as a Continental Giant contributor. We run solely on fundraising and donations when it comes to bunny care and rarely ask for extra but veterinary expenses are our largest expense of the year at $50,000 in our budget and we need a little push right now over the hump during the transition with our veterinarians billing services.