Minnesota Companion Rabbit Society (Edina, Minnesota 55439) is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of companion rabbits. MCRS is entirely supported by donations and memberships.
The mission of MCRS is:
- Education: To reduce the number of unwanted rabbits and to improve the lives of companion rabbits by educating the public and assisting humane societies.
- Adoption: To help rabbits in area shelters, or those that shelters can no longer care for, to find permanent homes.
The Minnesota Companion Rabbit Society works to let people know that domestic rabbits can and do make wonderful companions, as long as you are willing to meet them on their terms. MCRS teaches “bunny parent” classes, trains shelter staff, offers bunny tune-ups, maintains a phone and email hotline so that people can contact it with questions or problems, and generally tries to help keep rabbits and their human companions living happily together.
In addition, MCRS has a small number of fosterers who work with the local shelter systems to help them lower their euthanasia rates and raise their adoption rates. Its fostering efforts focus primarily on rabbits who are relatively healthy but are not well-suited to the shelter environment due to personality or temperment. In addition, MCRS occasionally helps the shelters with a rabbit who is ill when it believes that the additional time and expertise that it can offer the rabbit may make the critical difference in saving that rabbit’s life.
