Introduction: Hi everyone, I am a very friendly bunny! You can call me Oliver.

Background: I was found in the street 5 months ago by a young couple who have been my wonderful foster family. They took great care of me and gave me a lot of love. But they will leave China in 3-weeks and are hoping to find me my forever adoption family very soon!

Personality: I’m super affectionate, very special, and playful. I can be a great companion.
Ideal home: I prefer the indoors and would be happy with an individual, a couple or a family with older children (e.g., 8-years and older).

Breed, Sex & Age: I’m a boy, and about 7-9 months old.

Medical notes:  I’m a healthy, indoor rabbit, who goes out occasionally under supervision.

Post-adoption care: The International Center for Veterinary Services (ICVS) has enrolled me into their Rescued/Stray/Rehomed Pet Adoption Benefits Program. ICVS will provide my new family with significant discounts (up to 50%) on health examinations, vaccinations and neuter/spay surgeries during my first year with their new adoption families.

Annual Wellness and Parasite Prevention Packages: ICVS has wonderful annual wellness and parasite prevention packages to keep Oliver healthy and free of worms, fleas and ticks. Please contact ICVS for more information.

Official Vaccination Certificate: If Oliver needs a rabies vaccination, ICVS will issue the new family the official Beijing Animal Health and Immunity Certificates (e.g., vaccination red books) at no charge. Oliver may need the official vaccination red books to prove he has been legally and properly rabies-vaccinated and to move to other cities or to leave China with his family.

Pet Import/Export Counseling: ICVS will provide the families with unlimited relocation counseling and accurate information to take Oliver with them when it is time to move to another city or to another country.

Door-to-Door Pet Transport Service: ICVS can help the new families arrange for door-to-door car transport for their appointments at the hospital.

ICVS Non-Profit Humane Animal Welfare Programs:
Please support and donate to the ICVS Non-Profit Humane Animal Welfare Programs here.

Donations may be made directly on the ICVS web site through Paypal:
www.ICVSASIA.com

Please also donate via ICVS WeChat:

Your donations support ICVS in helping pets like Oliver and the many stray/rescued/abandoned/rehomed and shelter animals in our community. The pets receive world-class medical care, treatments, good nutrition and socialization with love and compassion that allows them to become healthy adoptable pets!

Please contact the International Center for Veterinary Services (ICVS) for more information about Kedi and the many adoptable pets waiting for homes:

Tel: (010) 8456-1939/1940

Email: reception@ICVSASIA.com

Website: www.ICVSASIA.com

photos: courtesy of ICVS

Name: Hi Everyone, my name is Ricky!

Ricky is a beautiful rescued rabbit. He had a really tough start in life. He was very lucky to have been taken in by a very kind rescuer who has given him great care. He is a sweet, interactive and playful bunny. He is looking forward to finding his forever family. And maybe that would be you?

Personality: Ricky is intelligent, affectionate and inquisitive. He loves to explore and does not mind the occasional head massage. He is eager to greet people as they walk on by bounding right up to them.

Ideal home: Ricky would be a good bunny for families with older children (e.g., 8 years and older). Having a rabbit is a wonderful way for children to learn how to interact with an animal while respecting nature under the supervision of their parents.

Breed, Sex & Age: Ricky is a black and white, short-haired male rabbit. He is at least one-year old.

Medical notes: He is healthy and ready for adoption!

Post-adoption care: The International Center for Veterinary Services (ICVS) has enrolled him into their Rescued/Stray/Rehomed Pet Adoption Benefits Program. ICVS will provide his new family with significant discounts (up to 50%) on his health examinations and neuter surgery during his first year of life with his new adoption family!

Pet Import/Export Counseling: ICVS will provide his family with unlimited relocation counseling and accurate information to take him with them when it is time to move to another city or to another country.

Door-to-Door Pet Transport Service: ICVS can help his new family arrange for door-to-door car transport for his appointments at the hospital!
Contact ICVS: www.ICVSASIA.com

ICVS Non-Profit Humane Animal Welfare Programs:
Please support and donate to the ICVS Non-Profit Humane Animal Welfare Programs:
http://www.icvsasia.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=62&Itemid=91&lang=en

Donations may be made directly on the ICVS web site through Paypal:
www.ICVSASIA.com
Donations may also be made through the ICVS WeChat QR code:

Your donations support ICVS in helping pets like Ricky and the many stray/rescued/abandoned/rehomed and shelter animals in my community. The pets receive world-class medical care and treatments, good nutrition and socialization with love and compassion that allow them to become healthy adoptable pets!

Please contact the International Center for Veterinary Services (ICVS) for more information about Ricky and the many adoptable pets waiting for homes:

Tel: (010) 8456-1939/1940
Email: ICVS_CHINA@yahoo.com
Web site: www.ICVSASIA.com

This past Sunday, we attended the Comptoirs de France annual Easter Egg hunt event. We went last year as well so this year, when my daughter heard the word Easter in passing, she repeatedly asked if we would be returning to "see the Easter Bunny." Little did I know there would be TWO of them.

I have often wondered how one must feel to dress up in a character costume and entertain kids. My first thought is that it must be extremely hot in there—especially in this balmy spring weather we are enjoying these days in Beijing. Those furry suits are sweat boxes, I’m sure!

My next thought, though, is how dehumanizing it must feel for those whose job it is to wear them. For a few hours on Easter Sunday, two people inside of Eastern bunny costumes (one blue, one grey) were completely invisible as human beings. Kids touched their costumes constantly, without much in the way of shyness, and even occasionally got a bit too close to their personal areas. (See pic below! Oops. That’s my son.)

I saw several kids poking and pulling at their costumes as well. One slightly older child was messing with the blue bunny’s ears by reaching up and covering its costume’s eyes with them, like it was a “torment the bunny” game. Certainly, the play wasn’t malicious, and this didn’t affect the costume-wearer’s vision, considering the eye screens were in the bunny’s smile – but how annoying!

My two-year old son was fascinated by these oversized rabbits. At one point he demanded that I “touch the bunny,” so I mechanically reached out and touched the blue bunny’s hand. In that immediate instant, I knew I had crossed a serious line of decorum. A child willfully touching a “furry” is somehow permissible; an adult doing so feels borderline perverted. And what a disturbing thought to have on Easter Sunday!

As we left to join the other kids for the actual hunt, I passed the bunny I had (now regretfully) touched and decided to address his (or her?) humanity. In Chinese, I said, “That must be quite a hot costume, isn’t it?” and I heard the quintessential Chinese grunt of affirmation echo inside the cavernous bunny head. It wasn’t much of a gesture on my part, but even this minor expression of compassion made me feel more generous somehow (read: less creepy), which is happily more in tune with the holiday’s overall message.

Photos: Courtesy of Ember Swift