For Immediate Release:
January 30, 2005
Funny Bunny
They are not “real” pets--that’s what Stacy Gannon’s father told her when she asked to have a rabbit as a child. Her dream of owning a bunny seemed no closer to reality when she married a man who was allergic to pet danders.
In January 2004, she lost her job and found herself at home alone. “Used to the hustle and bustle of an office during the day, I soon found the house to be eerily quiet,” she says. “I thought back to the times when I had pets around to keep me company and wished again for a little bunny.
“As I thought it over, I realized that my husband had never mentioned if he was allergic to rabbits. When I asked, he said that he assumed that he was but was not certain.”
About that time, Stacy happened onto Petfinder.com, the largest online database of homeless pets, including rabbits. “It was so fun to look at all the animals, but there were so many that I used the Quick Pet Search to narrow it down to the smaller rabbits.”
It was then she spotted Porsche. “He was so bright eyed and had such beautiful gray markings that I kept coming back to his listing.”
She mulled it over for a week, and then called Wild Rescue, the animal placement organization who had listed Porsche on Petfinder.com at http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/TX168.html. They patiently answered her questions about rabbit ownership and offered a solution to her dilemma about allergies.
“I would bring Porsche home for a weekend test run,” Stacy says. “If my husband or children had any allergy problems, we would know very quickly.”
She reports that the experiment was a success. “We have renamed him Lucky in honor of how we feel about having him as our pet. A rabbit is quite different from the other pets that I’ve owned, but not a day goes by that he doesn’t make me laugh.”
February is Adopt-a-Rescued-Rabbit Month and Petfinder.com urges people to consider adopting a rabbit. There are nearly 4,000 listed on the Web site.
Thanks to its sponsors, Petfinder.com is free to both visitors and to its animal placement organization members. Purina signed on as the Web site’s premier sponsor. Other exclusive sponsors are BISSELL Homecare, Inc., a manufacturer of home cleaning and floor care products, PETCO, a national pet supply retailer that sponsors in-store adoptions and provides coupon books for new adopters, and Merial, maker of the number one veterinary-recommended flea and tick preventative FRONTLINE®, and heartworm preventative HEARTGARD®.
Petfinder.com has also allied with PetHealth, Inc., to provide a gift of one month of ShelterCare Pet Insurance, paid for by Petfinder.com, to every dog or cat adopted from a Petfinder.com member in approved states and provinces. The program is the first of its kind for shelter pets.
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