It is such a privilege to be outside in the Sanctuary every day of every season.
Alvin was a shiny black lop buck who we first got to know in 2007 when he took Pearl home to be his lovbun. After Pearl sadly passed on in 2010 he came back and took Holly home with him. When Holly became very unwell she came back to us …
Chestnut was a sooty fawn dwarf lop buck born in 2009. He came to us after intimidating his family so much that they couldn’t cope with him. You have to admire a cute fluffy creature who can scare people like that!! He was two years old at that time. He lived …
Oleander was a gold buck with a white nose. He came to us in 2011 after he fought with his young male partner while they were with us for boarding. He was two years old at the time. When his owners got him they thought he was female and would …
Fern is a blue-eyed gold uppy eared rabbit with white markings, she was born in the Sanctuary on 18/4/11 after her mother. Violet was brought to us after she was given to someone while pregnant still with the buck who fathered the first litter. We took her to prevent the new …
Autumn was a castor rex buck who came to us in 2010 along with three littermates because his owner was unwell and unable to look after them anymore. He was about three at the time. He lived with his sister Summer for many happy years in one of our enclosures. …
Summer was a castor standard rex doe. She and three of her littermates came to us in October 2010 due to her owner’s poor health. She was about three years old. She was very fat and had not had much exercise ever, having been kept in a small section of …
Mayfly was a very fluffy black lionhead doe. She came to us in May 2010 when she was a year old because her owner was having problems and wasn’t looking after her. She was a dreadful matted mess and was thin and frightened. I had to cut the matts off and …
Firefly was a sooty fawn lionhead buck. He came to us after being hunted down by a great hoard of people after he was spotted straying near the train station in 2010. He made quite a few people late for work, and turned up outside the sanctuary on someone’s …
Yesterday and today have been far warmer than it has been for ages and than it is forecast to be in the coming weeks so I needed to take advantage of it and get the guinea pigs bathed. They really suffer from itchy skin if it is not done regularly, …
Rose was a blue grey lionlop doe who was about two when she came to us in October 2009. She was part of a group of 14 who were given to us because of her owners mental health trouble. The group included Old Bonnie, who of course wasn’t Old then. They …
Hopper Haven doesn’t look like much from the front but it is much more than one would imagine. Visitors always comment about how much bigger it seems on the inside. Like a Rabbit Tardis! Hopefully this website will be similar and will help you explore what we do and come …
I know this needs work, it is on my to do list. I need to decide exactly how I want to present the material, but at least this is here to be going on with… Guinea Pig Care Guinea pigs get a rough deal in life, but we are …
I know this needs work, it is on my to do list. I need to decide how to present the information, but at least this is here in the meantime… Rabbit Care Rabbits need as much exercise as a small dog, and as they can not be walked the …
Bonnie was a brown and white speckled lop butterfly marked doe with a moustache. She came to us with her litter of five in October 2009 due to her owners mental health issues. She was Butterfly’s mother, but outlived her. She was adult when she arrived, probably about two years …
Myra was an English marked lionhead doe with a flaming temper. She came to us in June 2009, but it was not our first encounter with her. We rehomed a buck to live with her in 2008, and she bit the homechecker. Her owners moved and did not want to …
Basil or Oliver as he was known before we rehomed him (because he looked just like a little doe we called Olive) was a little English marked buck who first came to us on New Year’s Eve 2008 after he was found in a park in Birmingham in freezing weather. …
Eric was a gorgeous speckled dwarf lop buck with butterfly pattern markings and a charming moustache. He came to us in May 2008 with several others from someone who’s health meant that she could no longer manage her rabbits. He was born in 2007. He was an extremely feisty buck …
Poplar was a black and white Dutch cross buck who came to us at just under a year old in December 2008 at the request of another rescue that was trying to close. He and his brother Humbug were fighting badly and so had each been confined to half a three …
Oak was an agouti buck. He came to us in November 2008 with the rest of his littermates. They were too young to leave their mother but they all had diarrhea and one of them had prolapsed her rectum. Their owners were not prepared to take them to a vet. Despite …
The days are getting lighter and longer,
the snowdrops are opening,
the birds are singing,
the rabbits are digging
and the guinea pigs are dreaming about spring grass…
A different smaller viewpoint,
The world below the kneejoint…
Spark was an agouti lop buck born in August 2008 who came to us in October 2008 as part of an accidental litter. He was rehomed in May 2009 but returned in August 2013 when his family moved to a house with a fox infested garden. He lived with Old …
Severn was a harlequin dwarf lop buck. He came to us at just four days old with his mother, father and the rest of the accidental litter he was part of in March 2008. The whole litter was named after rivers after one of them weeed all over a visitor. He …
August first came to us in August 2007 with his littermates from an accidental litter. They were all rehomed (we rehomed until 2010, but not since) but August was returned to us nine years later after his partner died because his adopters didn’t want to get another companion for him …