🆘 Tell Her It Will Be OK. Tell Her That Her Babies Will Be Fine—Even With Easter Round the Corner.

A mother rabbit stares through the bars of her cage, her body worn from litter after litter. Her babies press against her, warm and fragile, unaware of the fate that awaits them.

Tell her it will be OK. Tell her that her babies will be fine.

But it’s a lie.

Because Easter is coming.

And for thousands of rabbits, Easter doesn’t mean chocolate eggs and family gatherings. It means suffering, neglect, and death.

🐰 The Easter Crisis—Legal, Yet Cruel

Every year, as Easter approaches, rabbits become the face of seasonal impulse purchases. Tiny, soft, and helpless, they are sold as gifts—most often to people who have no idea how complex their care truly is.

Within weeks, reality sets in. The rabbit doesn’t like being picked up. The kids lose interest. The hutch is too small, but no one upgrades it. Vet bills are expensive. The lucky ones are surrendered to rescues. The rest? Abandoned outdoors, left in hutches to rot, or worse.

And what of the mothers? The ones who never get a break, never leave the cages, never feel the sun on their backs? They are bred over and over again, their babies taken too young, their bodies exhausted. Then they, too, are discarded.

It’s happening every single day, and it is completely legal.

🐰 The Law Must Change—Here’s What Needs to Happen

Rabbits are the UK’s third most popular pet, yet they have nowhere near the legal protections of cats and dogs. This must change.

💔 We demand legislation that includes:

✅ Equal legal protection for rabbits as cats and dogs, ensuring they are no longer legally neglected.
✅ Mandatory spaying and neutering from a certain age to prevent reproductive cancers—one of the leading causes of death in female rabbits.
✅ Comprehensive insurance coverage—if insurers provide full cover for cats and dogs, they can do it for rabbits too.
✅ Strictly licensed breeding to prevent mass overbreeding, impulse sales, and the abandonment crisis.
✅ Regulations on pet shops and online sales, stopping irresponsible purchases that lead to suffering.
✅ Minimum welfare standards for housing, including bans on tiny hutches—rabbits need secure, spacious, weatherproof environments.
✅ Veterinary training in rabbit care as standard, ensuring proper treatment and ending outdated, harmful practices.

🐰 This Easter & Mother’s Day—Take Action

🐾 Join the fight for rabbit welfare. If you have a petition for rabbit rights anywhere in the world, contact us at Hop to Save Rabbits—we’ll showcase it and spread the word.

🐾 Don’t buy a rabbit this Easter. Adopt from rescues, support legislation, and educate others about responsible rabbit care.

🐾 Share this message. The more voices we raise, the louder the call for change becomes.

Tell her it will be OK. Tell her that her babies will be fine.

And then make sure it’s true.

📢 Speak up. Demand better laws. Give rabbits the protection they deserve. #BetterRightsForRabbits #ChangeTheLaw #HopToSaveRabbits #EasterResponsibility