House Rabbit Society of Chicago

08/05/2026

Mark your calendars! Our amazing adopter has organized a tattoo fundraiser for us! All the artists at the studio will have bunny flash for the day and all proceeds will benefit the rabbits in our care 🙌🏼 We truly cannot wait!!!! Highlight of the year!

08/04/2026

Emma is 14 and retired. She spends most of her days snoozing hard & cuddling with her husbun and who can blame her? She has earned it!

08/03/2026

We are looking for a volunteer who can pick up newspapers for us from the canaryville library reliably and regularly one day every week. The volunteer needs to be self motivated, reminding folks to do things is just more work for me and I have enough to do 🙂 Can anyone help with this very easy task?

08/03/2026

Can you believe people still keep rabbits in cages and hutches? This sanctuary group has a whole room and I’m still actively working on getting more space for them because it doesn’t feel like enough 😵‍💫

Did you know the whole reason people started keeping rabbits in hutches in the Victorian times was so they could use their bodies as a commodity for fur and food? Somehow this spilled over into how people cared for their pets as well. But now, in theory, we should all know better and be doing better??? Unfortunately not the case. Lots of rabbits still being kept in cages and hutches when they naturally would be roaming about 500-600 feet from their home base burrow in a natural setting.

Cage living leads to all kinds of medical issues like early onset arthritis, muscle atrophy, psychological distress, etc since the rabbits don’t have the ability to move freely. Sorry to be a bummer but rescuing rabbits is sad s**t and I hope all this crying about it inspires at least one person to do better eventually.

08/02/2026

A TRUE animal sanctuary is one that always puts animals first.

A safe place, free from exploitation, where they are cared for as along as needed.

To find a true sanctuary nearest you, use our Find a Sanctuary tool at sanctuaryfederation.org

08/02/2026

Supermodel Mabel has a PSA after seeing some disturbing content online(shocking.)

Rabbits don’t want to be therapy animals 🤷‍♀️ I can’t think of too many worse animals to be carting to airports or any busy, public place really than a prey animal who naturally would be sleeping in a burrow most of the day.

They don’t want to be forced to interact with strangers to comfort them or whatever dumb s**t humans want to use them for. Taking rabbits to care homes, airports, schools, baseball games(!!!!!) etc does nothing beneficial for the rabbits, it’s solely for human enjoyment so we are against it. Just like all animals, rabbits have a right to autonomy. People will argue that “some rabbits” enjoy this type of activity but those people are just not understanding rabbit behavior.

Here’s a link to one of a few studies done on this very topic. I included a screenshot of the conclusion of the study in the second slide to make it easy 🙂

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168159123000801

Mabel says thanks for coming to her(my) tedxtalk.

08/01/2026

Loving your rabbits doesn’t automatically mean you are meeting their needs ❤️‍🩹

07/30/2026

Of course everything is always dog centered but climate change is affecting all the animals. Arguably rabbits are more susceptible due to their heat intolerance and sensitive respiratory symptoms.

Each year, veterinary teams across the country are seeing more environmentally linked illnesses come through their doors. Rising global temperatures are increasing the risk for heatstroke and heat-related illness, especially for dogs living in urban environments.

Poor air quality is also affecting animal health. Research shows that spikes in fine particulate pollution lead to increases in veterinary visits for both cats and dogs.

These cases aren’t isolated; they reflect a larger shift in the environments our animals live in.

Read more: https://nomv.org/2026/03/16/healthy-planet-healthy-pets-healthy-veterinary-teams/