Oregon L.O.W.F.I

Archive for June 18th, 2009

A Portland, Oregon woman was arrested (again) for her obsession with rabbits. Oregon woman obsessed with rabbits arrested again Miriam Sakewitz, aka “the bunny lady” was under a court order disallowing her from owning animals. In 2007 she was ordered not to be within 100 feet of a rabbit. She ignored that court order, and was found in her hotel room with several rabbits in:

a hotel in the Portland suburb of Tigard after an employee reported finding rabbits hopping around in her room.

Sakewitz was found guilty of animal abuse and neglect, when police found:

nearly 250 rabbits in her home, including about 100 dead ones in freezers and refrigerators.

For some reason, the woman was not in jail, which made it all the easier for her to break into where the surviving rabbits were kept, stealing back some of the rabbits. Later, authorities found eight live rabbits, two that did not survive, and 130 rabbits at a “nearby horse farm.”