To learn more about the organization, please visit their website at www.coloradohrs.com

The mission of the Colorado House Rabbit Society (CHRS) is to provide education and rescue.

Our  volunteers perform thousands of hours of service to educate the public. This includes providing 24-hour assistance via our telephone hotline and website. Volunteers staff booths at community events, make television appearances and give newspaper interviews.  We teach classes for new “bunny parents”.  We provide staff education seminars for local animal shelters. We visit schools to teach children about responsible pet care.  We facilitate the sharing of treatment techniques among veterinarians. The CHRS also publishes a quarterly newsletter for distribution to our membership.

Every year the CHRS takes in between 150 and 200 rabbits.  We receive these rabbits from various sources, including shelters where they would have been euthanized; individuals who have found stray, abandoned rabbits; individuals who were too ill to continue to care for their bunnies or from the relatives of people who were deceased; and abusive situations. All rabbits are given medical attention if needed.  Every rabbit is spayed/neutered. We never euthanizes a rabbit unless the bunny is too ill or in severe pain with no hope of recovery or survival with a quality of life.

At any one time we may be providing temporary shelter to approximately 150 rabbits either in our shelter facility or foster homes, with most eventually placed in permanent homes. We spend whatever hours are necessary on an individual basis interviewing and counseling potential adopters to ensure that the rabbits that are adopted have PERMANENT homes.  We spend approximately 3 hours educating at time of placement (we personally deliver the rabbits to their new homes) and perform follow-up interviews.  We are available 24 hours every day to assist adopters and the public with rabbit related questions and emergencies.

We also place rabbits in one of our two sanctuaries or with volunteers in a permanent foster situation.  Rabbits who are healthy, but have waited over a year for adoption are considered for sanctuaries where they will live the rest of their lives being cared for by our sanctuary families.  Rabbits who have chronic medical problems or who are elderly may be placed in “permanent foster”.  We pay their medical bills, but the foster families provide the home.