** House Rabbit Society Selected Charity of the Day by GoodSearch
forDecember 4, 2007

GoodSearch will honor House Rabbit Society as the Charity of
the Day on December 4, 2007. The HRS logo and a link to
www.rabbit.org will be featured on the GoodSearch homepage.
GoodSearch.com is a search engine that donates half of its search
revenue (about a penny a search) to the charities its users
designate. GoodSearch is powered by Yahoo! search.
Find GoodSearch at http://www.goodsearch.com .

** Funny Bunny Toy Company To Donate 25% Retail Price of
All Website Sales from Nov. 15th - Dec. 31st

Funny Bunny Toy Company will be donating 25% of the purchase
price from each item sold from their website from November 15 -
December 31. Don't miss out on a chance to pick up some
stocking stuffers and holiday gifts for your special bunny
and help House Rabbit Society with a donation at the same
time. You can visit Funny Bunny Toy Company at their website
http://www.funnybunnytoyco.com to see all of their products
including their special holiday toys.

** Bunny Store Second Annual Holiday Fundraiser Now in Progress

The Bunny Store and More (http;//www.thebunnystore.com/holiday.htm)
is holding its Second Annual Holiday Fundraiser. They will donate
$1 per ornament sold to the rabbit rescue of their customer's
choice when they make a purchase. In order to nominate a
rescue group of their choice, all a customer needs to do is
fill in the name of the rabbit rescue in the "Annual Holiday
Fundraiser" text box when they check out.

** Puppy Paws to Donate 25% of Purchase Price to HRS

Puppy Paws (http://www.puppypaws.com/) will donate 25% of
your purchase price to House Rabbit Society until
December 31. Just mention the group's name in the Customer Notes
section of the order form.

** 2008 HRS Calendars Available

The St. Louis Chapter (http://members.petfinder.com/~MO56/index.html)
and the Vancouver Chapter (http://www.vrra.org/calendar2008.htm) are
both selling 2008 wall calendars. Buy yours now!

** Noah's Wish Thanks HRS Volunteers For Assistance With Rabbits
Affected by Southern California Fires

Karen Thonet, a Noah's Wish volunteer writes:

"Noah's Wish wrapped up their deployment at the San Diego
Qualcomm Stadium practice field at noon on Friday October 26.
To the best of my knowledge, all the rabbits evacuated to
Qualcomm went back home with their owners. One owner of parrots,
rats, cats and dogs reclaimed her animals on Thursday night to
transfer them to the temporary shelter at Del Mar. During
the 4 days at Qualcomm we had a total of 18 rabbits,
10 parrots, 3 ducks, 2 chinchillas, 3 rats and an iguana
in the exotics area...

Thank you to Judith Pierce, SDHRS chapter manager, for her
continuous monitoring and direction of our situation in the
midst of her own evacuation and efforts in coordinating foster
home and shelter rabbit evacuations, and for her follow-up with
rabbit owners who were briefly introduced to rabbit-care the
HRS way (spay/neuter, hay as an essential to a long healthy life,
preventing overheating, healthy diets, safe litter and indoor
housing), and for the owner of 5 unaltered rabbits (previously
caged separately) who were all put together into a big dog kennel
for evacuation, and now need emergency spay surgeries.

Thanks also to Patti Scott, long-time HRS volunteer, and the
first responder who brought hay and healthy pellets, who helped
provide critical care, including heat relief, grooming, and
out-of-cage time for the rabbits sunup through sundown on
Tuesday, most of Wednesday, and again on Friday, and for
graciously opening her home to me for the best shower I've
ever had on Wednesday night. Thanks to Amy Spintman, SDHRS board
member, licensed HRS educator, for signing on with Noah's Wish to be
a point person for fostering displaced rabbits, although this
did not become necessary, it was a vital step towards keeping
HRS in the loop if rabbits needed fostering locally, and for
her online coordination of lists and our needs, for the fresh
veggies she bought with donated funds and brought were a blessing
for the hot rabbits, and for her education of owners reclaiming
their rabbits on Thursday. And thanks to Michelle Adams, SDHRS
rabbit adopter who brought more hay and pellets and fresh veggies
on Tuesday afternoon, and for passing our needs along to the lists."

** The Facts About Poinsettia
http://www.rabbit.org/care/poinsettia.html

Just in time for the holidays, read the real story about the toxicity
of this popular winter plant.

** Forget Google. Bunnies Rule the Internet

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21462043/
MSNBC discovers that rabbits are taking over the Internet.
Sites mentioned in this article include Disapproving Rabbits
(http://www.disapprovingrabbits.com/), 30 Second Bunnies Theater
(http://www.angryalien.com/), Rabbit Bites
(http://www.rabbitbites.com/aboutus/), and House Rabbit Society.

** Pet Rabbits Becoming Popular in NYC

http://video.wnbc.com/player/?id=172980
WNBC did a feature on the HRS New York City chapter's bunny
bonding clinics. The clip features HRS Chapter Manager Mary Cotter
and Educator Cindy Stutts and six cute rabbits.

** Kitten litter adopted by rabbit

http://www.stv.tv/content/news/headlines/display.html?
id=opencms:/news/newArticle5245614
Story from STV (Scotland) about a house rabbit who adopted a
litter of kittens.

** Chapter /EducatorUpdates

* Colorado HRS
The Colorado House Rabbit Society held its annual Bunny Boutique
on Sunday, 11/11/07. The weather couldn't have been better--
sunny, no wind, a temperature of 70 degrees! In the Bunny
Burrow (our one-hop bunny shop), there were items for people
who love things with bunnies on them, or in the shape of bunnies,
basic bunny supplies, a variety of rabbit books, etc. In
the Bunny Grotto (converted from the garage across from the shop),
people were lured by the smell of corn popping and there they
found an incredible number of specially made toys and treats
for their bunnies. Finally, in the Bunny Barn, which houses
around 130 rabbits, people visited the shelter bunnies, voted
for their favorite rabbit, asked questions of the co-managers,
and enjoyed refreshments. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves
immensely, and at the end of the day, nearly $8,000 had been
raised for the bunnies.

* Pittsburgh PA
HRS Educator-in-Training Sue Donaldson was recently featured on WDVE
in Pittsburgh by Sean McDowell, a well-known local DJ. Sue brought
along Leopold, one of the chapter's fosters, who charmed the staff. A
picture of Sean, Sue, and Leopold is posted on the Photos section of
the HRS-Announce web site
(http://pets.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/hrs-announce/photos) in the
December 2007 Newsletter Photos album. You must have a Yahoo! account
to access the web site. Sue's rabbit Mocha is also featured in
"Disapproving Rabbits", now on sale at your favorite bookseller. Mocha
appears on page 161.

* Sweet Binks Rabbit Rescue, Inc. (RI Chapter)
Sweet Binks is kicking off our 4th Annual "Dreaming of a White Bunny"
campaign! We like to promote the adoption of the ruby eyed beauties
that often get overlooked for adoption and encourage looking at these
wonderful rabbits in a more positive light! We also love to have
testimonials and pictures from people all over the globe telling us
about how much they love their adopted BWB's (big white buns!) Hop on
over to www.sweetbinks.org and check it out! Sweet Binks has also been
very busy conducting a rabbit round-up in Plainfield, CT. We have
trapped 4 rabbits so far (3 dwarfs and an angora) that were set free
in a wide open yet heavily thicketed area. Conventional ways of
catching them are not feasible so we have been luring them into humane
Hav-A-Hart traps with banana and alfalfa! Thankfully, several of the
area residents have been very helpful with checking the traps
constantly and calling us when we get a bun or two. We actually
caught two in one trap! To see the buns now safely in our care,
please visit our web site. Sweet Binks wants to thank the House
Rabbit Society for the Emergency Grant to purchase several more
Hav-A-Hart traps and with expenses for this long process of catching
many rabbits out in rural Connecticut. Thank you also to Jessica S.
who also purchased 3 Hav-A-Harts for Sweet Binks also. The buns thank
you!

* Lowcountry House Rabbit Society (South Carolina -- a branch of the
North Georgia chapter)
Butterscotch, a rabbit who had been shot in the face with a pellet
gun, has had the surgery to remove the pellet to have his sutures
removed. He seems to be doing very well and is eating hay as though
he's never seen it before. The pellet was lodged just behind his jaw
joint so chewing was difficult. He also had a clump of fur lodged in
the sheath of muscle on the back of his face where the pellet entered
his head and brought fur through the wound with it. Butterscotch's
story was featured on Charleston's NBC news channel.

We are now more concerned about his friend Cocoa who was rescued along
with Butterscotch. Cocoa is suffering from a severe ear infection.
We've had numerous ear infection cases coming in over the past two
months, but all of the others have tested as pasteurella. Cocoa's
culture just came back as E. Coli, though his vet is unsure if that is
what is definitively causing the infection. We are still treating him
aggressively, and he will have an ear flush with sedation this
Thursday.

On the positive side, many have come through for our pleas for help.
We have had several pieces of rabbit-themed jewelry donated by one of
our members, which is for sale on our website--all proceeds will go
towards our high vet bills. We also have a recent adopter who is an
artist and is painting rabbit artwork for us to sell, and only taking
a small percentage of the sale to cover her supplies. We have sold
two more of the three story cube condos that were built in September
as part of the Day of Caring--coordinated by the Trident United Way,
this event involved over 200 projects throughout the tri-county area,
and we successfully constructed 5 roomy condos. One of the remaining
condos is being used in one of our foster homes, and the other one is
pending purchase now!

** Give a Holiday HRS Membership to a Friend!

Purchasing a membership to House Rabbit Society would make a perfect
holiday gift. It's easy to buy one. They only come in one size. You
won't have to search for a parking slot and you won't have to look for
a matching bow.

You and the fortunate recipient will both know you are supporting the
largest house rabbit advocacy organization on the planet. Please
consider buying those on your holiday list a gift membership today.
All members receive the Society's newsletter, House Rabbit Journal.

A yearly tax-deductible membership costs only $18 or $25 for
international memberships. Please go to
http://www.rabbit.org/hrs-info/joining.html for more information.

** Thank you on behalf of the rabbits.

** For Harry. You will be missed by all who were blessed to know you.