Candiflare
Mama Doe
Just posted this in rabbit welfare but there aren't many people there and I want to call the RSPCA by the end of the day
I took a girl from our village to a local so-called sanctuary today and was appalled at the manager's attitude to rabbit care and rabbits. I won't go into all the things that were wrong (no hay, they were breeders,unvaccinated, breeding with wild rabbits, no water) but the thing I was most worried about were two rabbits who looked blatantly unwell. I need you to help me identify what was wrong with them so I can describe it to the RSPCA.
They were REWs and were sitting there with their heads drifting from side to side, and it looked like they couldn't hold their eyes on anything. Do you know what I mean?
I went in and told the manager that they looked ill and she said it was "just part of them growing up." Obviously I don't believe her - practically losing balance in baby rabbits is NOTHING to do with growing up.
Can anybody tell me what this is so I can make the RSPCA aware of what it might be?
I think an RSPCA visit is at least warranted seeing as some of the animals had no WATER on a day like today.
What really topped it all off for me, what really took the biscuit was the fact that she tried to "hard-sell" a baby rabbit to me. He was on the counter as their "latest" ready to go baby, and she swooped it up with one hand and shoved it on to me and told me that if he didn't go today he'd go to the "breeding barn." Then she talked at me for the next half an hour about how she loves her rabbits. I said that I was worried about the breeding does she was keeping, and she said "if you want one of 'em it'll cost you £400 as that's what they're worth to me."
anyway I've gone on and on but I'm just so annoyed and the point of this post is that I need to identify vaguely what's wrong with the babies before I call the RSCPA...
I took a girl from our village to a local so-called sanctuary today and was appalled at the manager's attitude to rabbit care and rabbits. I won't go into all the things that were wrong (no hay, they were breeders,unvaccinated, breeding with wild rabbits, no water) but the thing I was most worried about were two rabbits who looked blatantly unwell. I need you to help me identify what was wrong with them so I can describe it to the RSPCA.
They were REWs and were sitting there with their heads drifting from side to side, and it looked like they couldn't hold their eyes on anything. Do you know what I mean?
I went in and told the manager that they looked ill and she said it was "just part of them growing up." Obviously I don't believe her - practically losing balance in baby rabbits is NOTHING to do with growing up.
Can anybody tell me what this is so I can make the RSPCA aware of what it might be?
I think an RSPCA visit is at least warranted seeing as some of the animals had no WATER on a day like today.
What really topped it all off for me, what really took the biscuit was the fact that she tried to "hard-sell" a baby rabbit to me. He was on the counter as their "latest" ready to go baby, and she swooped it up with one hand and shoved it on to me and told me that if he didn't go today he'd go to the "breeding barn." Then she talked at me for the next half an hour about how she loves her rabbits. I said that I was worried about the breeding does she was keeping, and she said "if you want one of 'em it'll cost you £400 as that's what they're worth to me."
anyway I've gone on and on but I'm just so annoyed and the point of this post is that I need to identify vaguely what's wrong with the babies before I call the RSCPA...