This shelter allows you to adopt laboratory rabbits

They are more than a hundred to quietly wait at La Tanière, a zoo-refuge located near Chartres.

They are laboratory rabbits who “would have left for the slaughterhouse if we had not recovered them”, assures Patrick Violas, co-founder with his wife of this real haven of peace.

In addition to housing and caring for them, the couple offers the rabbits for adoption.

So when a family shows up, Patrick Violas plays the role of pedagogue: “Our 'target' is mainly kids aged 8 to 12, he specifies.

We explain to them what animal welfare means, respect for animals.”

“Two million laboratory animals”

“In France, we use two million animals for research.

We collect it through a specialized association.

Or labs contact us directly, but this is more rare,” adds Patrick.

Since its creation, La Tanière has collected more than 2,000 animals, retired from performing arts or laboratories, from animal trafficking or mistreated.

Go behind the scenes of this refuge in this video from our partner Brut.

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