Q.& A. with Rachel Lemisch, Rabbit Rescue outreach coordinator City Edition

• Published in: The Boston globe
• Main Author: Meagher, Christian
• Format: Newspaper Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, Mass Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC 23.05.1999
• ISSN: 0743-1791

For six years, the Rabbit Rescue of New England has been operating out of the MSPCA animal shelter in Jamaica Plain to save abandoned rabbits. The group acts as a sort of rabbit adoption agency, finding foster and permanent homes for these neglected animals and trying to counteract the notion that rabbits, though domesticated pets, are not passive or low-maintenance. Last week, Globe correspondent Christian Meagher spoke with Rachel Lemisch, the outreach coordinator for Rabbit Rescue. A. We are a program under the umbrella of the not-for-profit Alliance for Animals group. They have a shelter in Arlington and a clinic in South Boston. The group started about six years ago at the MSPCA of Boston shelter in Jamaica Plain. Some years prior to that, our founder {who requested that her name be withheld} found a wild rabbit in her neighborhood, nursed it back to health, and then released it. She was later told by a friend that there was a rabbit shelter in the Boston shelter. Unfortunately, by the time she went to go get the rabbit, it had already been euthanized. She set up an arrangement with the shelter to foster out rabbits to homes.