BUNNY
“Nickname”
On Christmas Eve 2024, we welcomed Bunny, a small white mule in need of a miracle.
Bunny is about 13 years old, and was born to a donkey father and a horse momma, left uncared for on a mountainside property. There were a few mares and naturally in due time, a small herd of feral mule babies. They may have been happy enough and without interference may had led a nice little wild life, but fencing issues, and escapes soon resulted in loose equines. Bunny was about two years old at this time, so her formative years were as a wild thing.
Soon in the protective care of a responsible rescue, Equine Rescue Resource (about 90 minutes south of Rosemary Farm Sanctuary), Bunny was placed into an adoptive home. She learned basic handling and she had mini-horse friends and was having a nice life, which lasted for about 10 years. Sometimes though things happen and families find themselves in trouble, and Bunny was returned to the care of ERR. This is what responsible rescues do, we watch over and protect adopted equines, for life. And while WE, as humans, understand what happened, she cannot.
So Bunny was safe, but mourning the loss of her world, and not the easiest equine to manage. For the past year, the kind folks at ERR have tried to place Bunny in a new adoptive home, but she is not for beginners, common for the wild ones. Despite having a great personality, she stresses over any change in her world, especially others leaving, and tries to escape, testing fences and humans. Over the course of the past year, other equines have been adopted from ERR, and it’s greatly upset her, she experiences loss again and again.
In thinking about what was best for Bunny two answers were clear: other mules and stability. She hasn’t lived with another mule since she was just two years old. Mules need mules and this mule needs a family. And family is what she will get at Rosemary Farm Sanctuary. As for stability, Rosemary Farm is a Sanctuary where the vast majority of our equines remain for life.
Bunny was invited to join our little mule gang, as a direct rescue to rescue transfer from our friends at Equine Rescue Resource. ERR is also the rescue that transferred Alice the mule to Rosemary Farm a dozen years ago, so there is some beautiful symmetry in this save, for us, having had to say goodbye to Alice early this year.
If Bunny’s journey moves you, please consider sponsoring her and being part of her new extended family here at Rosemary Farm.
Bunny is:
• a white mini-mule
• welcomed to The Sanctuary in December 2024, our Holiday Miracle Save
• a New Intake
• in transition *
• fun fact; despite expecting her to be excited to meet other mules, Bunny has currently chosen the mini-horse herd as her new family and deemed Snow her new BFF!
* Any equine that we are still evaluating and getting to know following arrival, is in training, or is changing in some way, is in transition. Please feel free to send an email to inquire about their status and future possibilities.