House Rabbit Society and AR prpoganda

HRS is a organization that masquerades as an authority...but in reality is just a front for extremist vegan ideology. literally...a rabbit hole

Tonic immobility in rabbits is pretty much stated as fact , but finding any studies that actually prove flipping them over induces that state are hard to come by. TI is generally understood as meaning the animal has to be physically incapable of movement, but obviously in real life, rabbits are able to flip themselves back over.

History

In the 1990s, animal rights folks and early house rabbit society people would go to rabbit shows Observe Judges and exhibitors holding rabbits in their laps and the Activists claimed they were "tranced". These folks found a predator response study on tonic immobility from the 70s and ran with it, using this old, small sample, poor studies as "proof". As HRS grew in the late 90s, the house rabbit society began targeting veterinarians still in college. They would offer assistance or positions as the staff vet for their rescues. This caused 2 whole decades of newly graduated rabbit vets to beholden to house rabbit society for their assistance getting their careers started. In this way, House Rabbit Society was able to spread their misinformation and point at the vets on their payroll as the "experts" *even though those veterinarians are steeped in animal rights propaganda and house rabbit society misinformation.

Over the years. this got repeated and repeated until it stuck. Always check veterinarians, rescues, and any article's small print to check for house rabbit society connections, or influence becuse House Rabbit Society does not base there information on sound science.

There's no meta-analysis available. Lots of these newer studies were retracted no abstract or paper available because they got pulled or the sample size is too small to base conclusions on The largest sample size I could find was the one I linked, and that study found tonic immobility safe and effective

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https://www.raising-rabbits.com/house-rabbit-society.html?fbclid=IwAR1-6paSC265zW-MLRCxkJrpK8Q1kP7-M46pZ47b6PdPVKU8MxAgF3FkZfU https://rabbitedsociety.webs.com/animalrightsyou.htm?fbclid=IwAR2rkLbAOGTOYfTP88CjTpEpXW3re7rk1rkhNgxhCyMZkIqcPnSHQ5MhRzM

One of the best articles explaining thoroughly how HRS is an ARA extremist group

people don't realize that even their vet can be compromised by this ARA bullshit everyone is conditioned to be outraged at headlines

actually research to follow the money and connections with HRS . HRS only serves vegan at their functions... that's available on their own website.. That speaks to their group affiliations

HSUS is also a wing of PETA. The top three people of HSUS all used to sit on the PETA board, and HSUS is the main pipeline for rabbits that HRS "Rescues" HSUS quite literally directs people to HRS..

And if anybody tries to say HRS and PETA aren't connected... then why does PETA use them as their rabbit referral organization... and why is every major HRS member, also a vegan PETA or ALF member?

So... the house rabbit handbook... the book published by the house rabbit society.... look what it said in their first edition 1988, before they went coocoo in the 90s Third edition... 1995.... they start mixing guinea pigs and rabbits

" we do this by offering fresh hay a couple of times a day." even in 1996 it's completely contradictory paragraph by paragraph on their own site.. "A cage should be at least 4 times the size of your bunny-" so . if a new Zealand takes up.. approx. 1 sqft of spaces... a 4 sqfoot area is acceptable that's their own website.

the first 4 editions of their book they put out had pellets as main and sole food source...it wasn't until the 90s and the ARA movements that they switched

The feed is still pellets only by third edition They are still talking about greens as treats HRS is incredibly inconsistent even on their own website

starting at the beginning.   Paige K Parsons  ... an photographer and graphic artist .   Was education director and web developer from 1997 to 2004 then stepped down.

Anne Martin, the big wig, pulls a salary off the charity of 48k per year.... she's the only one on the whole board who gets paid To avoid losing their charity status through political activity (animal rights activism) they filter through thier "education" budget... and conveniently, during their audit, everybody got covid On charity navigator, they aren't even listed because they are under tax audit And most of the HRS state branches have failing charity navigator rating

If you go further down the 990, there's the itemization On the Georgia HRS chapter 990 filing...where it asks to describe where the money was spent...it just says "rescuing and rehoming rabbits " no itemization, no breakdowns... just zeros in every column and 1 paragraph stating what they do...so you basically have to take their word on it All of their pamphlets and activist junk is produced under "educational" materials.... and there's proof^^^ HRS got into merk veterinary manual... wonder who greased that pharma companies palms? And, it states quite plainly in the tax filings, they leave "educational materials" at vet offices

We have learned HRS hates rabbits and wants them to die

House rabbit society says Netherland dwarf breeders are pugging the skull of rabbits... but that isn't true... they are simply smaller and thus the shape... there's no facial push in like a pug

searched pub med, went through all 170 results , only found 1 opinion paper from 2003 stating rabbits should be fed grass hay or extruded pellets ..99.999% of pelleted rabbit feed sold commercially today is extruded