holidayhutch
Warren Veteran
Did anyone else go today?
If I go again I will have to avoid the show area, what I saw today in one cage was just too upsetting.
The most gorgeous REW that was so obviously stressed, Cage no more than 16 x 16 inches and at 9.20am this poor rabbit was going round in circles, heavy breathing, gnawing at the bars, biting its own fur in places and scratching like a dog at the shavings near the door to be let out The show had been open 20 minutes at this point. We alerted a steward whose response was "Its a show love, they are used to it" and he walked off. I did tell a vet (Matt Brash) who promised to have a look, so I only hope he kept that promise after he had finished posing for the cameras.
Thankfully although still not ideal, at least the contis and german Lops had room to lie down this year and cages were a good 2 body lengths long.
I have totally fallen in love with the Polish breed.
Anothing disappointing element to the show, was that not one exhibitor had cages or hutches that met welfare standards and were only selling and showing breeding blocks.
Did pick up a few goodies at trade prices for the business and made a few good contacts with suppliers, so that side was good.
Saw RavenRex but am not convinced about Rabbit Jumping - seems more to me that they are running away from the human and have to get over the hurdles if they are to suceed, I also saw one young girl scruff her rabbit to pick it up and turn it round to go back the other way, the rabbit kicked out like mad
So good and bad points to this years show from my point of view.
If I go again I will have to avoid the show area, what I saw today in one cage was just too upsetting.
The most gorgeous REW that was so obviously stressed, Cage no more than 16 x 16 inches and at 9.20am this poor rabbit was going round in circles, heavy breathing, gnawing at the bars, biting its own fur in places and scratching like a dog at the shavings near the door to be let out The show had been open 20 minutes at this point. We alerted a steward whose response was "Its a show love, they are used to it" and he walked off. I did tell a vet (Matt Brash) who promised to have a look, so I only hope he kept that promise after he had finished posing for the cameras.
Thankfully although still not ideal, at least the contis and german Lops had room to lie down this year and cages were a good 2 body lengths long.
I have totally fallen in love with the Polish breed.
Anothing disappointing element to the show, was that not one exhibitor had cages or hutches that met welfare standards and were only selling and showing breeding blocks.
Did pick up a few goodies at trade prices for the business and made a few good contacts with suppliers, so that side was good.
Saw RavenRex but am not convinced about Rabbit Jumping - seems more to me that they are running away from the human and have to get over the hurdles if they are to suceed, I also saw one young girl scruff her rabbit to pick it up and turn it round to go back the other way, the rabbit kicked out like mad
So good and bad points to this years show from my point of view.