Twenty-two rabbits call Animal Place home for life. All of them are semi-feral or feral, preferring a life away from humans and near other rabbits. They live in a 1,000 square foot barn with a large, lush pasture outside to explore.

Every year, more than a million rabbits are slaughtered for food production in the United States. In California, they are classified as poultry and thus do not need to be rendered unconscious before being killed. Millions are used in research and killed for their fur. They are popular as companion animals but also killed en masse in shelters. Rabbits have it rough!

And every year around Easter, thousands are purchased as babies from pet stores and online...only to be discarded as juveniles or adults when the "amusement" has worn off.

Such was the fate for several of the rabbits at the sanctuary, including Luna, a black-and-white rabbit. She was one of more than a hundred rabbits left abandoned at a school. The rabbits had to fend for themselves and faced threats from dogs and abusive humans with guns. School officials tired of the rabbits and wanted to shoot them all, but rabbit rescues intervened and safely captured all of the bunnies.

This Easter, replace live bunnies with chocolate ones!