Pro-Pittsburgh

I just posted on a green roofs thread about how Pittsburgh is coming back green. Then I remembered this email I got from the Pittsburgh House RAbbit Club. Talk about a subculture of a subculture!

A MESSAGE FROM RABBIT WRANGLERS ...

Dear Rabbit Champion,

We are proud to say that Rabbit Wranglers, a germ of an idea we had years ago when first helping shelters rescue rabbits, is now a genuine, newly formed 501(c)(3).

This non-profit has been created to:
• assist shelters with their high maintenance and overflow rabbits;
• Provide support to the rabbit community through outreach and education; and
• Help people with the care of their rabbits through grooming, boarding, medical respite and bonding.

We’re kicking off the year of the rabbit with a one-of-a-kind fundraiser. Rabbit Wranglers is partnering with Steel City Soils, a food-waste recycling company, to collect and use rabbit manure as an organic fertilizer. Steel City Soils, dedicated to urban agriculture, has a vermicomposting farm in the East End where they are in need of good organic compost. Rabbit Wranglers will receive a contribution from Steel City Soils for all usable rabbit manure brought to the East End drop-off site.

Our partnership works this way:
• 18-gallon Rubbermaid bins are provided to rabbit owners by the recycling company for a small deposit fee
• rabbit owners put bunny waste into the 18-gallon bins – litter box contents – litter and all
• the litter-filled bins are dropped off at Construction Junction in the East End at the designated days and times
• Rabbit Wranglers receives a contribution for each bunny-waste filled bin.

Our hopes are to continue this venture year-round.

We are very excited about this partnership. Rabbit Wranglers will have a steady source of income, and if you aren’t already composting your rabbit litter, it will now be put to good use in the land and not in landfills. Rabbit Wranglers will use 100% of the proceeds toward the care of the rabbits.

If you are interested in joining us, please fill out the five-question survey found at the link below. We need an estimate of households involved for the purpose of our Partnership Agreement and Best Practices.

Eventually, it would be nice to have people taking turns collecting bins in their community and dropping them off at the East End location. We will be working on the logistics as the project unfolds.