'Cause Everybunny Matters!
Donate a Rabbit Neuter
Neutering is the step that lets a rescued rabbit live with company, stay healthy and move on to a home of their own. It is also the most expensive thing we do for them.
£180 for a male · £240 for a female
Four Reasons We Neuter Every Rabbit
We do not rehome a rabbit who has not been neutered.
It is a settled policy rather than a case-by-case judgement, and these are the reasons behind it.
It Prevents Cancer
Uterine cancer is common in unspayed female rabbits, with the risk widely reported as rising towards eighty per cent by around five years of age. Testicular cancer is also common amongst unneutered males. Neutering removes that risk entirely.
It Lets Rabbits Live Together
Rabbits are social animals and should not live alone. Unneutered rabbits rarely bond, and fights between them cause serious injuries. Neutering is what makes companionship possible.
It Stops Unwanted Litters
Rabbits can breed from around four months old, a pregnancy lasts about a month, and a doe can conceive again almost immediately after giving birth. A great many of the rabbits we take in are the result of an accidental pairing.
It Makes Them Easier To Live With
Spraying, territorial aggression and constant hormonal frustration settle down after neutering. Litter training becomes far more reliable, which is often what decides whether a home works out.
What a Neuter Costs
These are our current veterinary prices. A female costs more because spaying is abdominal surgery, which takes longer and needs a more involved recovery.
This pays for castration of a male rabbit, including the pre-operative check, anaesthetic, surgery, pain relief and post-operative care.
This pays for abdominal surgery on a female rabbit, including the pre-operative check, anaesthetic, surgery, pain relief and the longer recovery period that follows.
This covers both operations, which is what it takes to get one pair of rabbits ready to bond and ready to be rehomed together.
Any amount helps. Most people give a share rather than the whole cost, and shares add up to complete operations. If £20 is what you can manage, that is £20 of a real rabbit’s surgery. Consider Regular Giving.
How Your Donation Is Used
Your gift is made to Beloved Rabbits, a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation registered as SC049128. Donations are received as general funds for the care of rescued rabbits rather than being reserved for one named animal, because operations are booked according to clinical need and we cannot know which rabbit will be on the list when your gift arrives.
The figures above are the true cost of the surgery at our current veterinary prices. Where a rabbit turns out to need more than a routine neuter, which happens when an operation reveals an existing problem, the additional cost comes from the same funds.
If you pay UK tax, adding Gift Aid increases your donation by 25p for every pound at no extra cost to you. JustGiving will ask you about this at the point of giving.
The Step That Unlocks a Home
From Waiting To Ready
A rabbit who is vaccinated, well fed and recovering nicely still cannot be rehomed until they have been neutered. Until then they live alone, because pairing them would risk a fight or a litter.
Funding a neuter moves one rabbit from waiting to ready. It is the single donation that most directly ends a rabbit’s time in rescue.
Give a Rabbit a Future
Fund a whole operation, give a share of one, or ask us about spreading the cost over a few months. Every route gets a rabbit onto the surgery list.