BWF awarded a $25K grant by Petco Love Foundation
Contact: Lejla Hadzimuratovic, Founder, Bunny World Foundation, (310) 498-8600
info@bunnyworldfoundation.org,
Crystal Bugary, Petco Love, media@petcolove.org
National Nonprofit Petco Love Invests in Bunny World Foundation To Save and Improve the Lives of Rabbits in the Greater Los Angeles Area.
Los Angeles, CA (April 30, 2023)—Bunny World Foundation is set to receive a $25,000 grant investment from national nonprofit Petco Love in support of their lifesaving work for pets in the Greater Los Angeles area.
Petco Love is a national nonprofit leading change for pets by harnessing the power of love to make communities and pet families closer, stronger, and healthier. Since its founding in 1999, Petco Love has invested $375 million in adoption and other lifesaving efforts. And Petco Love helps find loving homes for pets in partnership with Petco and more than 4,000 organizations — like ours — across North America, with 6.75 million pets adopted and counting.
“Our investment in Bunny World Foundation is part of more than $15M in investments recently announced by Petco Love to power local organizations across the country as part of our commitment to create a future in which no pet is unnecessarily euthanized,” said Chelsea Staley, Petco Love President. “Our local investments are only part of our strategy to empower animal lovers to drive lifesaving change right alongside us. We launched Petco Love Lost, a free national lost and found database that uses photo-matching technology to simplify the search for lost pets.”
“Bunny World Foundation is deeply honored to receive funding to support the 90 rabbits rescued in Los Angeles during the spring of 2023,” said Lejla Hadzimuratovic, President and Founder of Bunny World Foundation.
In April 2023, Bunny World Foundation partnered with Los Angeles Animal Services (LAAS) to shut down a backyard rabbit breeding operation, rescuing nearly 90 rabbits living in unsafe and unsanitary conditions. This joint rescue—covered by ABC7 Eyewitness News, Fox LA, CBS, and KTLA—demonstrated BWF’s ability to respond rapidly and effectively in collaboration with city agencies.
The rescued rabbits required urgent and intensive medical care. Support from the Petco Love Foundation made it possible for BWF to continue its mission throughout 2023, addressing complex and life-threatening health conditions while ensuring each animal received the care needed to survive and recover.
This effort was part of a broader year of impact, during which BWF rescued more than 700 abandoned or neglected rabbits—further advancing our commitment to ending illegal breeding, reducing overpopulation, and promoting humane education.
“We are deeply grateful to our Adoption and Charitable Partner, Petco Love Foundation. Their support not only helped us save lives—it created lasting impact, giving these animals a second chance at safety, healing, and hope.”
For more information about Bunny World Foundation, visit www.bunnyworldfoundation.org. Learn more about Petco Love here: petcolove.org.
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About Bunny World Foundation
Bunny World Foundation (BWF) is an ALL-Volunteer, non-profit 501(c)3 animal welfare organization founded in 2008 in Los Angeles, California. Set up to promote (Shelter) Equity and Equality for Rabbits, BWF's mission is to combat animal cruelty, illegal animal sales, exploitation, and neglect of all animals, through rescue efforts, public education, investigations, legislation, events, and media attention. In addition, BWF works to reduce rabbit overpopulation and establish rabbits as companion animals that deserve the same individual rights, level of care, and opportunity for longevity as cats and dogs that live as human companions. BWF manages a complex Foster & Adoption Program that requires constant strengthening and expansion to accommodate new rescues and provide for their intensive care, medication, supplies, and spay/neuter funds. BWF has 250 volunteers/fosters and rescues approximately 1,000-1500 abandoned and abused domestic rabbits a year. BWF rescued over 15,000 rabbits in the City of Los Angeles to date, ranging from un-weaned baby bunnies from Santee Alley to adult bunnies from the over-inundated city shelters.
More information about BWF can be found on our website and our Facebook page. The foundation welcomes any and all donations from the public. All proceeds go toward spay and neuter surgeries, vet bills, food, and other supplies needed to sustain the animals until they can find their forever homes at one of our weekly adoption events.
For more information about Bunny World Foundation, visit bunnyworldfoundation.org.
About Petco Love
Petco Love is a life-changing nonprofit organization that makes communities and pet families closer, stronger, and healthier. Since our founding in 1999 as the Petco Foundation, we’ve empowered animal welfare organizations by investing $375 million in adoption and other lifesaving efforts. We’ve helped find loving homes for more than 6.75 million pets in partnership with Petco and organizations nationwide. Our love for pets drives us to lead with innovation, creating tools animal lovers need to reunite lost pets, and lead with passion, inspiring and mobilizing communities and our more than 4,000 animal welfare partners to drive lifesaving change alongside us. Is love calling you? Join us. Visit PetcoLove.org or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, X, Threads, and LinkedIn to be part of the lifesaving work we lead every day.
Bunny World Foundation is deeply honored to be a recipient of the funds designated to assist 90 bunnies rescued from the Backyard Bunny Mill in Los Angeles City during the Spring of 2023. The project made possible by the Petco Love Foundation enabled us to continue our mission throughout 2023 and tackle many medical challenges related to the rabbits we rescued. Thanks to our Adoption & Charitable Partner Petco Love Foundation, together, we continue to make a real difference for animals.