Some of you might remember my thread a while ago about me donating my birds to a bird/animal park on the island... I finally got round to visiting them today and they're all fine! I even managed to spot my canaries zooming round the tropical house.
I was really disapointed when I got to pets corner though. The rabbits and guinea pigs had been mixed (I'm sure they weren't last year) and their NZ white bun obviously had myxi (I reconised the nose issue from Cloud, plus her eyes looked sore). I asked the keeper what was wrong with her and she told me she'd caught her nose on the fence and got in a fight with another rabbit. :shock: I couldn't really say much because it was during 'Pets Corner' feeding time so there were a lot of people about. I did wonder if she knows that the rabbit's not well but has been told to tell people a less worrying story. I got a bit upset though when she lifted this poor bun up and helf it out for a load of little children to prod and poke.
There were also three other buns in the enclosure with her, two of which were only 11 weeks old and one looked like it had a sore nose too -
I've always raved about the park to anyone that'll listen but this has really annoyed me. I wouldn't have dreamt of prodding Cloud on her sore nose, let alone picked her up and let dozens of little children give her a good old poking too.
I'm going to send them an email tonight and double check that they know what the problem is and don't genuinely think they're injuries from the fence! :roll:
I was really disapointed when I got to pets corner though. The rabbits and guinea pigs had been mixed (I'm sure they weren't last year) and their NZ white bun obviously had myxi (I reconised the nose issue from Cloud, plus her eyes looked sore). I asked the keeper what was wrong with her and she told me she'd caught her nose on the fence and got in a fight with another rabbit. :shock: I couldn't really say much because it was during 'Pets Corner' feeding time so there were a lot of people about. I did wonder if she knows that the rabbit's not well but has been told to tell people a less worrying story. I got a bit upset though when she lifted this poor bun up and helf it out for a load of little children to prod and poke.
There were also three other buns in the enclosure with her, two of which were only 11 weeks old and one looked like it had a sore nose too -
I've always raved about the park to anyone that'll listen but this has really annoyed me. I wouldn't have dreamt of prodding Cloud on her sore nose, let alone picked her up and let dozens of little children give her a good old poking too.
I'm going to send them an email tonight and double check that they know what the problem is and don't genuinely think they're injuries from the fence! :roll: