Links
There are so many websites out there you could surf forever! These are the best ones I have found. Packed with information and advice. If you don’t look at any other sites, make sure you look at these:
Cavies United - Lauras wonderful and informative guinea welfare site. We were lucky enough to have Lauras expert advice on the literature we give out to prospective owners here at the rescue and if you are thinking of becoming a "cavy slave" Lauras advice is indispensible!
Pasturella Care - A wonderful website for anyone caring for a rabbit that is faced with severe pasturellosis.
Treens Pigs - Amusing and helpful site about guinea pig care with some really handy links to other sites too.
Bobtails Rescue - Jim & Delia Cordells fab rabbit and guinea pig rescue. If we dont have the guinea pig/s for you...perhaps they will. Jim & Delias answerphone gets very busy so you can always e-mail them via the website!
Gorgeous Guineas - Brilliant site by Chrissie who is an aromatherapist and rodentologist. If your guineas or bunnies have skin problems, visit this site for the answers. We use GG products on our own animals and those in the rescue and we utterly swear by them.
Local Rodentologist - Chrissie Slade who also runs Gorgeous Guineas is our nearest (and dearest!) rodentologist. For advice about cavy capers and especially about examination of teeth without anaesthetic, please contact Chrissie directly. Chrissie Slade Gorgeous Guineas Maybough House Dark Lane Tilehurst Reading RG31 6RA TEL: 0118 967 5647
Cavy Spirit - Loads of health information and some good reasons NOT to breed from your guinea pig.
Hilarious Piggy video - This is sooooo funny! A wonderful video featuring a piggy who sings about how wonderful his life is....if you have a guinea you MUST show them this!
Comfy Cavies - Useful site with a link to a piggy lovers shop too!
Cambridge Cavy Trust - The Cambridge Cavy Trust is a guinea pig hospital.Contact Details can be found here. This site also gives details about rodentology studies.
Barmy 4 Boars! - Susies excellent site exploding some myths about keeping male guinea pigs and promoting their care and wellbeing. Very helpful site.
Guinea Pig Rehome - Sister site of the rabbit rehome website
Cavy Cages - Sort out your piggy a palace to be proud of with this fantastic site!
Rabbit Care & Resources
The Rabbit Housing Website - A really great website which gives you all the information you need on the right housing for your bunnies.
The Myxomatosis Helpline - Make a note of this website and its invaluable information for owners who decide to meet the threat of their bunnys death from Myxomatosis head on.
Basils & Hollys LIVE Bunny Cam! - Andy & Linda Sweeney adopted Holly from Green Fields Rescue to pair with their handsome house rabbit Basil. They are now living happily in The Big Bunny House and courtesy of this live rabcam you can see what exactly what Basil and Holly are up to! If you cant see the bunniess they might be out on the bunny safe roof terrace just out of shot!
Rabbit Rehome - The best rabbit rehoming, information and advice website (apart from ours of course!!) on the web
Fuzzy Rabbits Information site - Really informative site jam-packed with all the information you could need about bunny care, behaviour, bonding and health. Brilliant.
Rabbit Talk - You will get nowhere with your bunny until you have learned to “speak rabbit”! Read this site before you do anything else!!!!
Rabbit Welfare Association - the official site of the UK rabbit welfare association a very helpful site full of behaviour and health rescourses
Animal Rescue & Care (ARC) - Another of our friends in the world of rescues, located in West London they always have bunnies and guineas looking for homes too.
The ultimate bunny shed website! - Jeremy and Carolines bunnys are VERY well cared for!! Here you can see just what it is possible to build for your buns with a little imagination. Also a great site for bunny care advice for new owners.
Bobtails Rescue - Delia and Jim Cordells fantastic Rabbit and Guinea pig rescue. Jim and Delia were inspirational in us starting our rescue, and what they don’t know about rescuing rabbit and guinea pigs with their experience…well, it isn’t worth knowing! Also see
Doe Drop Inn - Claire is Green Fields Rescues Home checker and also runs fab boarding facilities which helps her cover the costs of fostering rescued bunnies. If we are full and you are looking for great bunny boarding, look no further than Claire at Doe Drop Inn. She, like us, does NOT house bunnies in little hutches while they are on holiday.
House Rabbit Society - an American site, but none the less a well put together site with heaps of information
Shopping & Recommended Products/Companies
Bunny Mail - Toys and goodies for your bun at very reasonable prices. Our bunnies simply love the vine balls, straw plaits, fiddlesticks and edible tubes, check out the galens garden section for wonderful natural treats and treatments.
West Wales Timothy Hay & Toys - Three different types of timothy hay available as well as a range of willow toys.
Ryedale Hutches - Ryedales website for quality hutches at reasonable prices including delivery! Great range and good sizes, one of the only sites around to offer a decent 5 feet width and 2 foot depth as standard sizing. Run by Robert who is very helpful. Phone if you need anything bigger making and he will quote you for it. Brilliant!
The Rabbit House - Please visit this shop and buy a few bits, because all the proceeds support Green Fields and Bobtails Rescues. Get Buying!!
Animal Communication - Our dear friends James French and Shelley Slingos website promoting holistic care for animals and owners alike. If you would like to attend one of James mind blowing animal communication courses, please contact me and I can help organise one in your area. Animal communication is a skill that will change the lives of both people and animals alike.
Local Cats Protection League - The Cats protection league do wonderful work for cats in our area. If you are looking to adopt a cat or two, why not visit their website.
Chompetz - Another great site for bunny and guinea toys. The woven items are a great hit with the furries here at the rescue.
Shelter Helper - A comprehensive list of dog, cat and small animal rescue centres where potential homes/new owners can post looking for animals and shelters can post animals in need of homes.
Paw Prints Shop - Here you can buy fantastic tee shirts and bags with big and bold funky bunny and guinea cartoons on them. We love 'em!
RSPCAs Conscientious Consumer Website - Vote with your shopping basket! Consumers have a crucial role to play in persuading supermarkets to raise their standards for farm animal welfare by choosing only higher-welfare products.Make a big difference for animal welfare by knowing what to buy and where to shop. Discover what food assurance schemes can mean for farm animal welfare.
Kynoch & Partners Veterinary Centres - Green Fields Rescue is proud to be associated with the top quality veterinary skills and care offered at Kynoch and Partners. Ivan from the Harmanswater branch surgery is the Green Fields Rescue Veterinary surgeon and we have recommended him and his collegues Nick (from the Wokingham branch) and Jill (from the Easthamstead branch) to the Rabbit Welfare association for their particular skill with small furries. The reception staff at all the branches are very helpful and will be able to guide you in the right direction if you have any queries about your pets health care. If you are looking for a new vets for your small animal we are very happy to recommend Kynoch and Partners. Kynoch and partners have branches at Crowthorne, Yately, Frimley, Easthampstead, Harmanswater and Wokingham. We regret that our collective experience means Green Fields Rescue is unable to extend its recommendation to vet Mr Phill Timm of the Crowthorne branch. If you are outside of the wide area covered by Kynochs branch surgeries, please contact us for further recommendations of other vets...and we'll tell you the ones to avoid!
Weather Proofing by Scratch & Newton - Scratch and Newton are a genuis rabbit & piggy whose designs produce fantastic ready made weather proof covers for hutches and runs. Really brilliant ideas on here.Please note the owners of Scratch and Newton agree with us that guineas should only live with guineas and rabbits only with rabbits as per RSPCA guidelines. Thank goodness Scratch and Newton are only cartoon guineas and bunnies eh!? That way they cant hurt each other!!
The Hay Experts - Finally a way to get TOP QUALITY hay delivered to your door! How do we know its top quality? Well, you can now buy the same "FIELD FRESH HAY" that you can buy from the rescue, the very same hay that we feed to all the hay experts here at the rescue and to our own house rabbits! Best of all, by purchasing your "FIELD FRESH HAY" from the Hay experts, you are supporting the rescue as a donation comes to us for each sale. Brilliant! This website also has lots of other excellent hays as well as chewable toys to keep your bunnies happy and healthy.
Dignity Pet Crematorium - A small,caring, family run service offering individual cremations and memorials should you lose your beloved pet. Dignity can arrange everything for you and work with several local veterinary hospitals. We had our special house rabbit Morgan cremated by Dignity and from personal experience I can tell you that I have never met such heartfelt understanding just when we were vulnerable and needed it most. I really cant praise the service the Spurgeon family offer enough. We will shortly have some of the lovely memorial plaques that Dignity offer here at the rescue paying tribute to lost bunny family members so you can see for yourself how much "dignity" there really can be for your loved pets after they have left this life.
The only HUGE rabbit cage on the market. - This german ebay shop is the only place I can find worldwide which sells a rabbit cage large enough to consider shutting your house rabbits into for more than a few hours (so great for use over night or while you are at work during the day). A whopping 140 cm (nearly 5 feet) by 68 cm (2 feet). This is nearly double the size of the standard cages available on the market in the UK and is also MUCH cheaper and a better design than its nearest rival the Ferplast Rabbit 140. The shops owner,Matthias, is really very very helpful and supportive of rescue centres so if you need a cage for your bunnies, this is the only one we recommend. On this website the one you need is called XXL Nagerkäfig RABBIT 140.
Pets 2 Vets pet transport service - This is a really good idea for people unable to transport their own animals around for example if you dont have your own car etc. Pets 2 Vets also kindly donated us some bunny food this xmas time. Thankyou very much to them.
Look GR8 cruelty free products - Really brilliant site offering some fantastic products that you would normally only find in salons (at double the price!)...and all not tested on animals. This site is well worth a look for gifts and goodies for everyone who cares about looking GR8!
Petlife International - The makers of "vet bed" and oxbow food products including critical care.
Rabbit Guardian Angels - These wonderful people will truely be your bunnies guardian angels. In the event of your death or long term ill health your bunnies will be taken care of in the 5 star way you would want. You can even write your wishes for your bunny in your will as laid out on the website. Its not a nice thing to think about, but I for one would rather think about it now than have to imagine what would happen to my bunnies if I didnt make it clear what I wanted before hand.
Cruelty Free Shopping - All kinds of ethical goodies, gifts and services in one place.
SPH supplies - Our recommendation for all things pet supplies is SPH. This company stock all kinds of really really useful animal care stuff from cleaning materials and medical supplies to food, bedding and accessories. Well worth a look. Very easy to deal with and great customer service.
Books:
Hop to it! A guide to training your pet rabbit by Samantha Hunter A fantastic and simple to use book to help you voice and litter train your bunny. Full of photos and useful tips
The House Rabbit Handbook: How to live with an urban rabbit by Harriman Marinel Indispensible
Rabbitlopaedia: A Complete Guide to Rabbit Care by Meg Brown & Virginia Richardson A must have for those starting out in rabbit care
