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Help with an Easter translation

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Hello everyone!

I'm trying to translate the following:

"Please choose chocolate and plush bunnies for Easter!

Adopt for Love. Adopt for Life."

It's for an assignment I'm working on where we have to imagine that we are writing an advertisement about how real rabbits are not toys (there's a problem in my area where parents buy their children rabbits for easter and then later abandon them when they realize how much work they are as pets).

Here is my attempt:

Por favor, ¡elije los conejitos hechos de chocolate o peluche!

Adopte por el amor. Adopte por vida.

Thank you in advance for your insight and corrections!

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updated Apr 11, 2014
edited by AlyssaLTerry
posted by AlyssaLTerry

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First, please explain what's the meaning of "for love - for life"

I don't get the intention behind those....

Thanks.

Edit: If indeed the context is as given by Tosh then in Spanish you can't just saying like it was stated by Alyssa.

Adopte por el amor a las mascotas. Adopte(los) para toda la vida.

That would be the correct way.

You have to be more precise in this case.

updated Apr 11, 2014
edited by chileno
posted by chileno
Adopt for love = you are adopting because you love the animal, because you are a loving person. I would think this would be "por" in the sense of "a causa de". - Tosh, Apr 11, 2014
Adopt for life = you are adopting the animal for it's entire life. For me, this would be along the lines of "durante todo su vida". - Tosh, Apr 11, 2014
And just to help your English out a bit: You can't say "please explain what is the meaning", but instead: "please explain what the meaning is", or "please explain the meaning of (X) to me". :) - Tosh, Apr 11, 2014
Thanks Tosh....hmmm so I can't formulate the question the way I did, uh? - chileno, Apr 11, 2014
I asked about that because context is everything... Thanks and read my edit. - chileno, Apr 11, 2014
It's definitely a play on words in English. And I meant to write "toda su vida". - Tosh, Apr 11, 2014