Good Bunny-News.

[Khandro]

Back in January 2012 I posted this question; http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Animals-and-Nature/Question1100784.html
asking why some people treat rabbits so badly, particularly relating to a rabbit held in a small hutch by a local inbred idiot in my village. Well I'm pleased to report that a kind neighbour and I have finally managed to get him to release it, and she now has it in spacious indoor and outdoor accommodation in her garden. It has since the last two days, grass to roll on plus sunshine and shade a great diet and is deliriously happy - me too. I thought those who responded might like to know this.

[viv38]

Khandro that's brilliant. These little creatures are amongst the most ill treated and misunderstood - well done you and your neighbour xx I can't find your January post ....

[viv38]

Sorry, you've linked your January post - just seen it.

[wolf63]

I'm glad that the rabbit will live out its life comfortably. It is just a pity that the original idiot didn't do their homework when they decided to get a rabbit.

I think that we should have a global ban on idiots breeding and passing on there idiot genes on to further generations.

:-)

[rsvp]

I haven't been aware of this post but Khandro, confess to a little moisture in my eye on reading this and agree wholeheartedly that rabbits are very often hard done by. I thoroughly applaude your efforts. Brilliant result and you deserve a huge pat on the back.

[ummmm]

I don't understand why they are kept in hutches. All they need is bedding and shelter. You don't have to lock them up to provide that.

[ummmm]

And food and water, of course. Throw in a few wires and some furniture and they will be happy as Larry.

[rsvp]

ummmm the trouble is, rabbits are prey animals and unless they have a safe haven to run to, they are fair game for predators. Suburban gardens support a lot of urban foxes and any rabbit without a secure shelter won't last long. I totally agree that to keep a rabbit confined to a hutch is inhumane and shouldn't be allowed but rabbits are sold as children's pets and the mindset seems to be that the rabbit can be kept in a small hutch. Awful isn't it?

[mrs.chappie]

Great news Khandro. Very pleased to hear it.

[Connemmara]

I am a happy wee bunny for the happy wee bunny.

[RATTER15]

I am quite interested in rabbits and rabbit breeding and in contact with quite a few rabbit breeders, it always upsets me when I see these rabbit breeders keeping their rabbits in tiny cages, they are usually very well cared for in every other respect but still keep these poor rabbits in such dreadfully small cages.

Our rabbits have very large runs indoors with toys to keep them amused and when we move their runs will be half under cover and half outdoors.

[rsvp]

But ratter -you are an animal lover rather than an animal exploiter

[Khandro]

Good for you Ratter! Rabbits are sentient beings with the equivalent IQ of cats and dogs and yet they get treated so miserably. I don't know the RSPCA's take on this, but I imagine if cats and dogs were so treated we would see an outcry. I wonder if isn't to do with the fact that they have in the past been kept as a source of food.

[josaphine32]

Thats a really nice story, I am fostering 5 cotton tails at the mo, there eyes have just opened and ears are opening, even at this young age they are clever, they only have to smell me when I walk in the room and know it's dinner time.

[wildwood]

Hail Khandro and his kind neighbour. So often these type of stories end in tragedy.