I think there are practically no laws on the size of a hutch that you can keep an animal in... I believe it in as long as the animal can turn around then it's suitable
yes there are it scalled the animal welfare act it doesnt state a size but does say the amount of space each animal needs ie a rabbit fully stretch up and 3 hops across..
The RSPCA (in my opinion) are totally useless and i wouldn't ring them as i KNOW they wouldn't do anything until the animal was dead.
they arent always that bad but some areas seem to have less useful rspca people
A few years ago i rang them about a rabbit. This rabbit belonged to someone i knew and didn't get along with. They had a hutch in the garden but they let it out... yes out onto the road. It used to hop about the streets, onthe road, in people's gardens. It even managed to find its way onto the fields which backed onto my garden. I knew it was going to get run over, eaten by a fox or mauled by a dog or cat so i caught it... thinking the people had lost it and returned it. They said "oh he just goes out when he wants" :shock:
So i rang the RSPCA when i saw him out on the road again, they went round to their house then came back to mine and said "there'snothing we can do because they want to keep the rabbit, the only way we can take him is if they sign him over!!" :shock: How ridiculous is that? Letting a rabbit out must be illegal as itwill breed with wild rabbits and it must be counted as neglect!
But ths shows how much the RSPCA can do... and thats nothing.