More than 100 rabbits rescued from an overwhelmed caregiver’s home in Chattanooga have been placed with shelters and rescues around the region in addition to McKamey Animal Center, which assisted the Humane Society of the United States with the rescue operation last month.
The national organization recently released a video of the rabbits’ caregiver, who called McKamey for help when the number of rabbits at his home grew out of control while he was experiencing health issues.
“Walking into the environment and seeing how the owner was living made us all feel, in some sense, responsible for helping him just as much as these animals,” Audra Houghton, director of operations for the Humane Society of the United States’ Animal Rescue Team, said in the video.
A recovering alcoholic who’s been sober for 19 years, the caregiver said in the video that he started keeping rabbits as pets after coming across a 17-pound French Lop in a cage at a pet shop.