'Cause Everybunny Matters!
Donate a Rabbit Vaccine
Two diseases kill unvaccinated rabbits, and both are preventable. For £55 you can give one rescued rabbit a full year of protection against them.
£55 vaccinates one rabbit · a year of protection!
The First Thing Every Rescued Rabbit Needs
Rabbits arriving in our care have often never seen a vet. Vaccination is the first appointment we book, because until it is done a single insect bite or a virus carried in on someone’s shoes can undo everything else we do for them.
Myxomatosis
Spread by biting insects such as fleas, midges and mosquitoes, and by direct contact between rabbits. In an unvaccinated pet rabbit it is usually fatal, and treatment options are very limited.
Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease
RHD1 and the newer RHD2 strain attack the internal organs. RHD1 can kill within a day and often gives no warning at all. RHD2 works more slowly, which means an infected rabbit can pass it on before anyone realises they are unwell.
Indoor Rabbits Are Not Safe
The RHD virus survives in the environment for months and travels on shoes, clothing, hay and fresh forage. Insects come indoors. A house rabbit who never meets another rabbit still needs the same protection.
What £55 Pays For
A full course covers both diseases and lasts a year, after which it needs repeating for the rabbit’s whole life.
£55
one rabbit, fully vaccinated, for a year
This covers one of the essential vaccines, and helps set a rabbit on the right track. Another donor cover the second vaccine.
This pays for two essential vaccines against myxomatosis and RHD, and the consultation and health check that go with them.
Rabbits should live in pairs, and a pair is vaccinated together so that neither is left exposed. This gift covers both of them.
Vaccination if not a one-off. Every rabbit in our care is revaccinated each year for as long as they stay with us, and we send every adopter away knowing when the next appointment is due. 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 we cannot know in advance which rabbit will be in front of the vet on the day your gift arrives.
The £55 figure is the real cost of a full course at our current veterinary prices, so it is a fair description of what your donation buys. If vaccination is already covered on the day, your gift goes to the next most pressing welfare need, which is almost always veterinary treatment for a rabbit already in our care.
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.
One Appointment, One Rabbit, One Life
Far Cheaper Than Treating The Disease
Treating a rabbit who has caught myxomatosis costs a great deal more than preventing it, and very often the treatment does not work. Rabbit haemorrhagic disease rarely gives us the chance to try at all.
Vaccination is the one intervention where a modest gift reliably changes the outcome. It is also the step that lets a rabbit move on safely, because we will not rehome a rabbit who is not protected.
Protect a Rabbit Today
or give in memory of a rabbit you loved, we would be glad to help you arrange it.