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How It Began
How It Began • The Arrival • A New Home in Utah
During the winter of 2005/2006, Best Friends Animal Society began a rescue of over 800 rabbits from a one-acre piece of property in Reno, Nevada. Before Best Friends could rescue all the rabbits, the number had increased to 1,600! Can you imagine having to place 1,600 rabbits?
During the spring, the Board of Great Lakes Rabbit Sanctuary began talking with Best Friends, expressing our interest in helping. We had just acquired our five acre property and had lots of room. At first we offered to take 300 rabbits, then that got boosted to 500. In return, Best Friends covered veterinary and feed costs for the first 90 days, and they spent several weeks at the sanctuary renovating a barn and erecting fencing to create two large rabbit pastures. The target date for the rabbits arrival was Labor Day.
A caravan of two air-conditioned trucks drove straight through from Reno to Great Lakes Rabbit Sanctuary in Willis, Michigan. We were so excited to be able to welcome the rabbits to our farm and couldn't wait to sit in the middle of the pasture surrounded by 500 rabbits!