Rally for Rabbits calls to save Granville Island bunnies
Posted October 2, 2023 9:30 am.
Last Updated October 2, 2023 9:31 am.
A group of animal rights activists came together Sunday to rally against the trapping and euthanizing of rabbits on Granville Island.
The group, which met at Ron Basford Park, says many of the island’s rabbits are the offspring of abandoned domestic rabbits rather than wild ones.
They are asking for a more humane method of population control for the animals.
“We’re peacefully asking the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, which is CMHC who owns this property, to allow for the collection, spay, and neuter of the rabbits and give us some land so that we can build them a secure habitat where they’re safe and they can live out their lives. It’s only a matter of eight or 10 years for the life of a bunny, so it’s not forever,” Laura-Leah Shaw, organizer of Rally for Rabbits, said.
“The bunnies haven’t done anything wrong. Why are we killing them?”
“If this was a group of little dogs in the park, people would be celebrating them, the SPCA would be helping them find homes, but instead, because these are rabbits and they’re on the ground, breeding away, they get killed,” Shaw added.
Representatives from Rabbittats Rescue Society say they are desperately looking for people who can foster or adopt rabbits so that more of the Granville Island bunnies can be rescued.
