When police raided the Hillsboro, Oregon, home of 44 year-old Miriam Sakewitz in October 2006, they found over 150 rabbits roaming around plus 88 dead ones in the freezer.
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| Rabbits-holic |
However three months later she was said to have broken into the facility where the survivors were being cared for and stolen most of them back. She was subsequently found in Chehalis, Washington, with eight live rabbits and two dead ones in her car. Another 130 rabbits were recovered at a nearby horse farm. Charged with animal neglect, she was sentenced to five years' probation and was banned from owning or controlling animals. She was ordered not to go within 100 yards of a rabbit.
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| Miriam the Bunnylady |
In the summer of 2007, Sakewitz was sentenced to three days in jail for violating her probation by keeping a rabbit in her house. Probation officer Susan Ranger said Sakewitz had cancelled counseling sessions and refused to open the door for unannounced visits. On one occasion when she did manage to gain entry, Ranger said she found no rabbits but did notice a half-empty ten-pound bag of carrots.
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| Bunnies! |
Having apparently kept her nose clean for two years. Sakewitz was arrested again in June 2009 after a maintenance worker summoned to her Portland hotel room to fix a broken television set saw a number of rabbits hopping around. Animal control officers removed eight adult rabbits, five young and a dead one from the hotel room. The judge sentenced her to 90 days in jail. The "Bunny Lady" was back in the hutch.
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