| quantifying the shelter rabbit population: an analysis of massachusetts and rhode island animal shelters. | scholarly work on the nonhuman animal shelter population has widely focused on cats and dogs. as a result, little is known about the population dynamics of domestic rabbits (oryctolagus cuniculus) in shelters. the records from 4 companion animal shelters in massachusetts and rhode island were analyzed to describe these dynamics. a majority of the rabbits at the 4 shelters were surrendered by their caregivers, were between 1 and 6 years old, and were unaltered at the time of intake. the most comm ... | 2012 | 23009621 |