CHRISTINA (right) and Alisha with Sugar and Spice.
Animal lover Christina Murie is hoping to have a merry Christmas with her new bunnies, Sugar and Spice.
The New Toronto resident picked up the cute pets this week after her last two bunnies, Leo and Ruby, were killed by a suspected pit bull that was allowed into her Business Centre building, at 80 Birmingham Street, where the rabbits lived in a pen in the basement.
Leo and Ruby were chased and killed by the snarling dog, which left Murie and area children devastated. The bunnies were buried in a service conducted under a magnolia tree by a local pastor.
SUGAR and Spice getting used to their new comfortable home. Photos courtesy of Christina Murie.
“The school kids always stopped by to play with the bunnies before they were killed,” she says. “These are my two new ones.”
She obtained the cute bunnies from a neighbourhood teen who breeds them.
“I ended up taking a girl Sugar and brother Spice instead of the other original brown bunny,” she says. “It was a hard decision. They are only eight weeks old.”
She hopes the new bunnies grow into their comfortable home.
The deaths of Sugar and Spice outraged many in the community after it was detailed online.