Save the Easter Bunny

I recently got a very informative e-mail from PETA.

Dear -----
Easter has come, and it's bunny madness! Look around—chocolate bunnies, pictures of real bunnies, and bunny stuffed animals are everywhere! It is cottontail fever, and everyone has it.

But did you know that Easter can actually be a really sad time for bunnies? Every year, thousands of bunnies are purchased from pet stores and breeders and put into baskets as "surprises" for kids just like you.

But despite their fluffy and oh-so-cute tails, bunnies are not good pets. They don't like to be picked up or even snuggled, they can bite when they get scared (which is often!), and they spend a lot of their time hiding under things, not hopping around where you can see them.

Every year, shortly after Easter, thousands of these poor bunnies are turned over to animal shelters, stuffed into tiny cages and ignored, or even abandoned outside because the people who bought them had no idea how much work they are.

Don't make the same mistake! Tell your parents that you would prefer a chocolate bunny in your basket, and get your floppy-ear fix by SAVING bunnies!

Find a local rabbit shelter and volunteer to help clean up, feed the bunnies, and even help "socialize" them (that is rabbit-shelter speak for sitting and petting them!). Especially after Easter, the shelters will need your help. Even if you're too young to volunteer by yourself, ask one of your parents to go with you or volunteer to help raise money or collect supplies.

Be a part of the solution, not the problem! Bunnies will thank you for it!

Have a hoppy Easter!

Sincerely,
PETA

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