Because most children who get a pet get bored with it within a week or two.
They live in a TINY hutch/cage all their lives with little/no human contact.
Won't be spayed/neutered/vaccinated.
In extreme cases, they won't be fed/watered/cleaned out.
A lot of children are not mature enough to handle looking after another life, but their parents leave them to it. Its the animal that suffers.
Totally agree!
Also I know of a relative of my sisters freind who was one of these stupid people!
Well she bought a beautiful dwarf lop from pets and home loved it when she first got him even though she didnt know anything about bunnies, as he was never vaccinated or neutered...
Anyway then six months down the line she got bored of him (he gew into quite a large dwarf lop) it got to the point where she couldnt even be bothered to feed him so she used to pay her little brother £5 to feed him
Then she asked my sisters friend (her cousin) if she wanted him and well she said yes and shes no better at looking after him she picks him by the scruf of the neck, hes never seen a vet in his life
I have tried so hard to talk to the girl and her mother Ive bought better food for him given them advice on neutering and vaccinations but they think its a waste of money!!!!!!!!!
I looked after him while they went on holiday last year and he is the most loving bunny you could ever meet I even offered to have him her mum said yes you can take him and the girl said no I love him!!!
If she loves him why wont she let him have a better life he so deserves
Thats why bunnies or any animals shouldnt be bought as presents!
The girl has still got him today his name is bubbles and I know he lives a very loney life in a tiny hutch at the bottom of the garden