Candiflare
Mama Doe
My rabbit savvy vet has about 60 rabbits in an enclosure with a shelter in her garden (imagine an enclosure the size of a field.) What she does is that she takes strays or rescues, spays/neuters/vacs them, and just throws them in with the others to find their feet.
The rabbits live a semi-wild, but safe and healthy, existence. She never picks them up unless they're ill and she needs to put them down, and when they need their vaccs she herds them into a pen and does them all in one go.
She says they all gradually form their own social groups and that they do go through a difficult time when they start out and try to fit in socially, but that they work it out in the end.
It's quite a cheap operation for her as her husband owns the vet practice so she gets all vacs, neuters and food for free.
Do you think this is something to aspire to for unwanted rabbits?
The rabbits live a semi-wild, but safe and healthy, existence. She never picks them up unless they're ill and she needs to put them down, and when they need their vaccs she herds them into a pen and does them all in one go.
She says they all gradually form their own social groups and that they do go through a difficult time when they start out and try to fit in socially, but that they work it out in the end.
It's quite a cheap operation for her as her husband owns the vet practice so she gets all vacs, neuters and food for free.
Do you think this is something to aspire to for unwanted rabbits?