Monday, January 25, 2010

Dressing up a rabbit may stress it out

Dressing up a rabbit may stress it out

Efforts to help pull the endangered New England cottontail back from the brink


A medium-sized brown and gray rabbit is driving people on Cape Cod to crawl on their hands and knees through the snow, searching for signs of it. It is the New England cottontail, one of the rarest species in the Northeast.

“We know that they’re here. We just don’t know how many,” said Tony Perry, a field worker in the tribe’s natural resources department who has been helping with the cottontail project.

Since 1960, the rabbit has vanished from 86 percent of the places it lived, according to federally funded studies. The New England cottontail is now one of just two species at the highest federal priority level in the entire Northeast, from Maine to West Virginia.

Read more at capnewsdotnet.

Hoppy CNY!

The Busy Barn will be closed from 12th till 21st Feb 2010 to usher in the new Lunar Year. Do enjoy all the bak kwas and pineapple tarts! Here's wishing all a hoppy CNY!


Thursday, January 21, 2010

Warmth from an Angel



A woman who escaped her husband after years of domestic abuse took one thing with her a pet rabbit named Ruby Angel for the angel-like pattern on its nose. The woman sought help from a shelter, but they wouldn't take her pet. So she contacted House Rabbit Society.

Click here to read this touching story...

Monday, January 18, 2010

Its freezing cold!



Rabbit news from USA : Students returning to class at Fremont Middle School on Monday had a surprise visitor.

A rabbit dug a burrow in the snow outside sixth-grade social studies teacher Brandon Moore’s window and was sitting pressed against the window when school started.

Read more at The Freemont Tribune.

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