leeanderin
Mama Doe
This is a bit long winded so please bear with me.
Where we live there are a number of cats round about and when we moved in 2 years ago the same three cats kept hanging around our garden, we assumed they belonged to set of neighbours number 1 as we saw them putting out food and cat milk and they were always in there garden and their kids were always fussing over them, however it turns out they belong to set of neighbours number 2, the others only feed the cats as neighbour 2 only feeds them sporadically and they don't like to see them go hungry and feed them everyday out of pity (they even have someone come round to feed the cats each day when they are on holiday). Not so long ago one of the catshad been pooing in my flower pots and there appeared to be small white worms in there, iadvised neighbour 1 as his kids play with the cats and he went out and bought worming treatment for them.
Shortly after, we discovered that neighbour 2 has a dog, we only knew because we saw it in the garden as i had never seen the dog being taken out for a walk.
I got chatting to neighbour 2 a while back and mentioned we had two rabbits and she started asking if they were both male or females, when i said we had one of each she said "oh so you'll be having babies, we'd love a rabbit", i advised her that they were both neutered and the conversation moved on. I discovered yesterday that they now have two rabbits, given her track record i decided to take a walk along the alley to have a look in her garden to see what she had them housed in, i'm notkidding you it is the smallest hutch i have ever seen, it is roughly about 3ft long and you'd be lucky if it was 1ft deep, there is no run either, i think it might be on two floors but i'm not sure, but one thing is for cetrain it;s not big enough for a guinea pig never mind two rabbits.
Here's where i have the problem, both her and her hubby are unemployed (i'm not saying unemployed people shouldn't have pets so please don't have a go.) i very much doubt that the rabbits are neutered, i briefly saw one of them today and they look pretty young, and i doubt she will bother to, obviously if they are male and female she'll end up with alot of babies. If they are both male or female once they mature i'm worried they will start to fight, also, i can't see her taking them to be vaccinated and with the amount of dog poo lying in their back yard i'm worried about flies in the summer and the rabbits getting ill. It's obvious she doesn't really care about the cats (although she was overheard telling someone whoes cat had just had a litter, "i'd love another one!") and i doubt ahe has gone to the effort to worm and vaccinate the dog so i realy can't see her vaccinating, neutering or worming the rabbits. I'm so tempted to report them to the RSPCA, but at the moment other than the size of the hutch the rabbits look to be well cared for (they've had them a week), there looks to be plenty of water and bedding and they've even got a blanket over the hutch, so would the RSPCA actually do anything? What should i do?
Where we live there are a number of cats round about and when we moved in 2 years ago the same three cats kept hanging around our garden, we assumed they belonged to set of neighbours number 1 as we saw them putting out food and cat milk and they were always in there garden and their kids were always fussing over them, however it turns out they belong to set of neighbours number 2, the others only feed the cats as neighbour 2 only feeds them sporadically and they don't like to see them go hungry and feed them everyday out of pity (they even have someone come round to feed the cats each day when they are on holiday). Not so long ago one of the catshad been pooing in my flower pots and there appeared to be small white worms in there, iadvised neighbour 1 as his kids play with the cats and he went out and bought worming treatment for them.
Shortly after, we discovered that neighbour 2 has a dog, we only knew because we saw it in the garden as i had never seen the dog being taken out for a walk.
I got chatting to neighbour 2 a while back and mentioned we had two rabbits and she started asking if they were both male or females, when i said we had one of each she said "oh so you'll be having babies, we'd love a rabbit", i advised her that they were both neutered and the conversation moved on. I discovered yesterday that they now have two rabbits, given her track record i decided to take a walk along the alley to have a look in her garden to see what she had them housed in, i'm notkidding you it is the smallest hutch i have ever seen, it is roughly about 3ft long and you'd be lucky if it was 1ft deep, there is no run either, i think it might be on two floors but i'm not sure, but one thing is for cetrain it;s not big enough for a guinea pig never mind two rabbits.
Here's where i have the problem, both her and her hubby are unemployed (i'm not saying unemployed people shouldn't have pets so please don't have a go.) i very much doubt that the rabbits are neutered, i briefly saw one of them today and they look pretty young, and i doubt she will bother to, obviously if they are male and female she'll end up with alot of babies. If they are both male or female once they mature i'm worried they will start to fight, also, i can't see her taking them to be vaccinated and with the amount of dog poo lying in their back yard i'm worried about flies in the summer and the rabbits getting ill. It's obvious she doesn't really care about the cats (although she was overheard telling someone whoes cat had just had a litter, "i'd love another one!") and i doubt ahe has gone to the effort to worm and vaccinate the dog so i realy can't see her vaccinating, neutering or worming the rabbits. I'm so tempted to report them to the RSPCA, but at the moment other than the size of the hutch the rabbits look to be well cared for (they've had them a week), there looks to be plenty of water and bedding and they've even got a blanket over the hutch, so would the RSPCA actually do anything? What should i do?