Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Reports Bunny-napping
The bunnies, Lizzie and Brewster and their babies are moving to the museum for the summer.
The rabbit was supposed to be spending the winter with a 4-H group, but when Executive Director Colleen Janz called the group to bring the bunny back for summer programming, the group said it didn't have him.
"We thought that a 4-H group was going to be taking care of the bunny rabbit for the winter and there was some sort of miscommunication and they never picked up the bunny," she said. "Nobody knew where the bunny was and we reached out to neighbors and they didn't see anything."
Apparently someone else had picked up Bloomer and his hutch, and the museum had assumed it was 4-H.
Janz said she made a Facebook post Monday and has informed the police. The case is under investigation.
Janz believes Bloomer is safe and was taken by someone who thought the bunny was going to be left out all winter.
"I don't think anyone hurt Bloomer because they took the whole hutch. I think someone took him because they thought he would be out in the winter," she said. "They may have taken him not knowing we were planning on the 4-H group coming to take him like they had done the year before."
Janz said the summer bunny programming will continue and there is a new bunny family in residence donated by the Stanton family. Brewster, Lizzie and their six babies now call the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum their home.
Janz said if anyone has any information they should call the Adams Police Department.
"Bloomer was here for two years and I hope he turns up," she said. "Then we would have a whole slew of suffrage bunnies."
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