All bunnies need love, but some require a little extra daily care and medical intervention. This may include a prescriptive diet, medications, and more frequent veterinary visits. Long Island Rabbit Rescue has created a program to both honor the special-needs rabbits who may potentially wait longer for adoption, and to empower loving adopters to choose these deserving bunnies.

We proudly present to you MegaLove: a unique adoption program designed to keep special-needs rabbits happy and healthy, and their families feeling empowered and supported while caring for them.

Currently included in our MegaLove program are rabbits with megacolon. With their very delicate digestive system, rabbits require careful monitoring of their diet and diligent observation of digestive cues like input and output. Some rabbits, however, require extra care in this area. These rabbits have a digestive condition known as megacolon. They are almost always mostly white with minimal spotting around the eyes, nose, ears, and spine, but we have seen megacolon (MC) in rabbits of various colors. Rabbits with MC often stay in foster care forever as potential adopters are understandably apprehensive about taking on their care. Along with the savviest of rabbit veterinarians, LIRRG volunteers, foster families, and adopters with MC experience have gathered a multitude of strategies, treatments, and resources that can make caring for rabbits with MC manageable.

MegaLove program highlights:

• Financial support to help offset the extra burden of frequent veterinary intervention in these cases
• Education about MC
• Strategies for care and diet management, tailored to each individual rabbit

Adopters who meet a series of extra criteria will be considered for the MegaLove program. We believe that our foster rabbits who have medical issues are very special. Therefore, their adopters need to be very special, too.