We’ve been working hard and long on helping the Precious Life Animal Sanctuary find a way to repair their netting (a difficult task especially when travel involves a border, a bridge and a ferry making it a 4 to 5 hour trek). Many thanks to those who offered their assistance for our scheduled work parties, but we didn’t need the help after all. We had an AMAZING offer from a United States Navy and Marine volunteer platoon (30 soldiers!!) out of Bangor, WA, to come out and pitch in!
However, during our advance trips down there it was determined that the existing netting is at the end of its lifespan, it needs to be replaced, not repaired, including ideally much of the support structure, an expensive undertaking. We have researched and found a stronger, more resistant and less expensive style of netting (thanks so much to Kit and Pete at the Rivers Wish sanctuary in Spokane and Gina Matthews here in Richmond, BC, for the great tips!). This brings the costs down, but we have a ways to go.
Even with funding in place, the netting required special-order materials that could not arrive before the cold weather. We won’t send our garage bunnies outside without a chance to acclimatize, and PLAS won’t take the rabbit village and its inhabitants without the netting in place, so we’ll use the time to do additional fundraising, approach sponsors and make capital grant applications.
We will be asking the Ministry for a permit to continue holding the rabbits at their current location in the Auto Mall garage, and/or at one of the other holding areas offered to us, until the PLAS netting issue is resolved, or the government gives us permission to relocate them elsewhere.
If anybody can donate to the sanctuary’s Broken Netting Fund, thank you, the link is here:
https://www.youcaring.com/nonprofits/broken-netting-fund-/86778