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RABBITWISE's Purpose
By providing easy access to local and internet rabbit resources, public education, consultation and referral services, RABBITWISE
hopes to assist current and potential rabbit caretakers in making responsible decisions about rabbits, in giving high quality
care to rabbits, and in understanding the nature, behavior, and communication styles of rabbits.
By participating in community and nation wide animal welfare organizations' programs, by mounting public relations campaigns
where appropriate, and by offering community programs for rabbits, RabbitWise hopes to raise public and private consciousness
about rabbits to help them achieve the status that dogs and cats currently enjoy.
RABBITWISE's GOALS
RABBITWISE is primarily concerned with promoting the welfare and increasing the quality of life of an individual, group, and/or
class of domestic rabbits by:
-offering educational, consulting, coordination, and/or support services to potential and current rabbit guardians;
-offering educational, consulting, coordination, and/or support services to the rescue, shelter, veterinary, and advocacy
communities; and by
-advocating publically and privately for humane treatment of rabbits locally and nationwide.
WHO WE ARE
VOLUNTEER STAFF
Lana Lehr, Managing Director
John White, Education Director
Scott Baker, Services Director
Paulette Baker, Volunteer Director
Jennifer Barbieri, Rescue Operations Director
Lana Lehr, News Editor/Public Relations
BOARD OF ADVISORS
David Crum, DVM, Vet Consultant
Karen Hamrick, Development
Howard Lyman, Humane
Education
Gary Schwartz, DVM, Vet Consultant
Scott Stahl, DVM, Vet Consultant
RabbitWise is a non-profit organization,
501( c )(3) public charity, founded in 2003, comprised of rabbit-knowledgeable volunteers in consultation with professionals
and organizations in animal welfare and animal rights related fields to advocate for the improved welfare and legal status
of the domestic rabbit.
Most, but not all, of RabbitWise's volunteers are rabbit guardians who have also been educators
of rabbit care and behavior, volunteers, and/or members of the board of directors of other rabbit welfare and rescue organizations.
RabbitWise's sponsors are people from all walks of life who believe that domestic rabbits, as the most popular companion
animal after dogs and cats, should be afford the same legal status and standards of care that are afforded to other companion
animals. Sponsorship in RabbitWise helps to advance education to prospective and current rabbit guardians, advance advocacy
programs, and enable the creation of new programs.
RabbitWise
P.O. Box 2543
Kensington, MD 20891-2543
Phone:
(301) 530-1252 in MD
(703) 430-3453 in VA Loudoun County
(703) 421-2258 in VA Fairfax County
Fax: (301) 897-8587
e-mail: rabbitwise @verizon.net
Volunteer for and/or Sponsor a RabbitWise program or project.
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