OAR - Otautahi Animal Refuge - Christchurch NZ

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OAR offers rehabilitation, refuge, and considerate rehoming for neglected domestic pets in Ōtautahi. Our unique free Outreach Programme invests the support and education into our community to prevent the cycle of neglect continuing

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RABBITS

Ōtautahi Animal Refuge (OAR) only adopt our rescues out to the most loving forever homes, therefore our rabbits are conditioned to live indoors*, alongside you and your family, much like your cat and dog**

If you are interested in adopting from OAR, please message us and we will send you an Adoption Application. If you are interested in a particular rabbit please organise with us to see them.

Check the albums to see the rabbits available for adoption.

Please note that this page is run by volunteers :)

If you wish to surrender a rabbit to us, please note that there may be a wait time before we can take them. You can speed this wait time up if you desex and vaccinate your rabbit before surrendering them.

We are always in need of donations. Though we appreciate anything you can give, we prefer you to give a smaller sustainable amount, over a long time, so that we can create long term lasting change in these animals lives.
If you have items to donate, please see our list of much needed items.

*We train our rabbits with litter trays, but do expect some territorial messing when you initially have them becoming comfortable in your home, this should stop fairly quickly, if you find it becoming a problem, please contact us.
*Unfortunately in some cases the family dog maybe not be suitable to live alongside a rabbit, this may be due to a high prey drive. If you would like some help introducing your new bun to your existing pets, just let us know.