{"id":369887,"date":"2026-08-13T00:40:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/369887\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T00:40:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:40:36","slug":"abandoned-rabbits-22-rescued-from-plant-city-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/369887\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandoned rabbits: 22 rescued from Plant City park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/plant-city-rabbits-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">Courtesy: Humane Society of Tampa Bay.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">PLANT CITY, Fla. &#8211; More than 20 abandoned bunnies were rescued from the Nature&#8217;s Preserve County Park in Plant City Wednesday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Plant City rabbit rescue <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Humane Society of Tampa Bay said workers at the park off of Knights Griffin Road rounded up 22 rabbits before Hillsborough County Animal Control brought them to the shelter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/plant-city-rabbits-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Courtesy: Humane Society of Tampa Bay.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Shelter officials said the rabbits were in &#8220;rough shape,&#8221; saying they were severely dehydrated, underweight, missing fur and covered in their own urine. The Humane Society does suspect they came from a breeding or hoarding situation before they were discovered at the county park.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials said the coloring of the rabbits makes them easy targets for predators, and they lack instincts to survive in the wild.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/plant-city-rabbits-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Courtesy: Humane Society of Tampa Bay.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>  Humane Society animal care <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;These rabbits are not wild animals, they are domesticated pets who were left to fend for themselves in an environment where they had little chance of survival,&#8221; officials with the Humane Society of Tampa Bay said in a social media post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/plant-city-rabbits-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Courtesy: Humane Society of Tampa Bay.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Now that the rabbits are safe, the shelter said they will give them medical care, spay and neuter them and find them loving homes once they are healthy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">It wasn&#8217;t immediately clear who abandoned the rabbits or when they could be put up for adoption at the shelter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story was gathered from the Humane Society of Tampa Bay, who shared details about the rescue in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/plant-city\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Plant City<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/pets-animals\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pets and Animals<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Humane Society of Tampa Bay.\u00a0 PLANT CITY, Fla. &#8211; More than 20 abandoned bunnies were rescued&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47,629,115,8713,10784,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-369887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-news","tag-pets-animals","tag-plant-city","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}