Seen my rabbit?

[river]

Surely this is the lowest of the low?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/703805 2.stm

[Emu2005]

Yes this is disgusting - but even more shocking was a story in Southampton a few years ago where some vicious thugs beheaded a pet rabbit belonging to a disabled boy. It actually brings me to tears writing about it. I just don't understand what people have against animals and what kind of sick person would want to cause harm to them. I hope whoever took this rabbit is caught and it is returned to his owner. I also hope that one day we will see harsher penalties for people who commit atrocities to animals.

[eyebrows]

i think that girl could do with a few carrots and lettice

[tiny e.a]

Very distressing for all concerned when something happens to a pet but I don't think keeping her off school is rather ridiculous. Hope she gets the rabbit back none the less.

[tiny e.a]

(I mean 'I do' think)

[bigmamma]

I do hope the child gets her rabbit back . I do wonder though if it was outdoors , in our area the main culprits for taking rabbits from hutches are foxes .:-(

[jiggy-gb]

I think her being autistic might be why she's off school tiny, they're very emotionally fragile as it is without something like this upsetting them further. It must be hell for her parents right now, the girl will be inconsolable.

[Octavius]

I do think it is rather low that a disappearing bunny rabbit has made national news.

[paulos66]

Suprised anything getting stolen in Sunderland makes the news at all

[daffy654]

As the mother of a child with an autistic spectrum disorder I know exactly how this poor child will be feeling.Autistic children don't react to things the same was other more "normal" children would.They have great trouble forming emotional attachments to anyone or anything and when they do it can be very intense to the point of obsession.This child will feel like her world is about to end and nothing will calm or console her for some time unless the rabbit is found and returned.
The people who took it probably had no idea about the little girl's disability but I hope they have read the story and someohow arrange to get the rabbit back to her.

[Hellyon]

Oh poor thing - what a shame she didn't have my rabbit who now lives 'wild' in the garden and sleeps under the shed at night, or climbs in the conservatory window if it's cold, and has so far seen off all the local cats, a squirrel and bites anyone who isn't me that dares to go in her garden!

[Goodsoulette]

Emu, thats not a lone case. My cousin when he was little was bullied because he has a wonky eye. They did the same thing to his rabbit and left the head in the hutch.
So in all honesty, no I dont think its the lowest of the low. Did the thieves know she was autistic> and has it definitely been stolen, we had a guinea pig escape from it hutch. Not really sure how but think I may have been at fault somewhere, turned up later in the week and most of its hair and fallen out.

[Goodsoulette]

thanks for that story Hellyon, compounds my fear of rabbits even more.