About Us
Our Mission
- To educate the public about house rabbits and their care.
- To emphasize the need for all rabbits to be spayed or neutered.
- To provide homeless rabbits with foster homes,
exercise,
and attention until each can be placed in a loving, indoor
home as a valued family member. - To step in and rescue or foster special-needs
rabbits,
who are at risk of death or injury, whenever possible.
We Are Not a Shelter
And unfortunately we don't have offices or paid staff either. Bunny Buddies is simply a group of dedicated volunteers working out of their homes, often at their own expense.
More About Us
Bunny Buddies is a Houston-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public about house rabbits and their care.
- Our meetings serve as a forum for educational presentations and facilitate networking among Houston-area house rabbit owners.
- We can provide vet referrals, but we are not able to give medical advice.
- Working privately and with local shelters, we help many rabbits that would otherwise be euthanized.
- We facilitate adoptions, matching people and rabbits together, working with families to ensure a successful and happy home for all.
- We are able to help a lot of potentially unadoptable rabbits find homes just by spending time with them, and most rabbits that pass through our care are able to become an important family member in their new home.
- We do not support rabbit breeding practices, and all rabbits that we find homes for are spayed or neutered before they are adopted.
- We encourage people to house their rabbits indoors, as Houston is prone to summers of unbearable heat and humidity.
Our History
Bunny Buddies began in 1996 when local animal shelter volunteers and house rabbit guardians Janis (Abel) Hyde, Elizabeth Murphy, Helen Swann, and Nichole Taylor realized that Houston needed a group dedicated to educating the public about house rabbits. Since then, Bunny Buddies' dedicated volunteers have helped improve the lives of countless rabbits and the people who care for them.
2007-2008 Board of Directors
President: Les Wood |
Web Site Credits
Updated graphic design provided by Melissa Cost, www.pixelstarfx.com. Implementation and content design provided by Debbie Campbell and G. Wade Johnson, www.anomaly.org. Previous web site design and content developed by Janis and Phil Hyde, Nichole Taylor, and Barbara Weidman.