(I do hope the person I'm writing this about does not read this.)
So my friend's rabbit died.
The rabbit was kept in one of those two-storey hutches where the bottom storey had only bars instead of wooden walls, so is more exposed (designed to accommodate an attached run). They kept the hutch in an open space where cars parked, with no run attached, no cover or barriers around it. It was like this even in the dead of winter, except in the previous 4 years before this when it inhabited an indoor rabbit cage.. outside. My other friend once looked after this rabbit for a week and said it took 5 hours to successfully de-lodge the accumulated 5 inches of muck that had never been cleaned from this cage, de-green the waterbottle and cut the rabbits overgrown claws.
I once had a conversation with this friend where I was saying how you don't know when rabbits are ready for their food because they don't bark like dogs do. My friend said 'oh, doesn't yours growl when it wants something? Or rattle the bars with its teeth?' The friend also came in one day laughing because the rabbit had gotten so bored/frustrated in its minuscule enclosure that it had chewed apart and started digging into the tarmac beneath it, causing injuries to itself. Their solution was to put a concrete slab over the hole rather than appease the poor animal.
Also, they let the dogs run around and bark at hutch because 'the rabbit doesn't mind, he tries to talk to them by growling and stomping'.
Anyway, now that the rabbit has died
They have bought another rabbit
From Petsathome
To be kept on its own
In this same hutch
So my friend's rabbit died.
The rabbit was kept in one of those two-storey hutches where the bottom storey had only bars instead of wooden walls, so is more exposed (designed to accommodate an attached run). They kept the hutch in an open space where cars parked, with no run attached, no cover or barriers around it. It was like this even in the dead of winter, except in the previous 4 years before this when it inhabited an indoor rabbit cage.. outside. My other friend once looked after this rabbit for a week and said it took 5 hours to successfully de-lodge the accumulated 5 inches of muck that had never been cleaned from this cage, de-green the waterbottle and cut the rabbits overgrown claws.
I once had a conversation with this friend where I was saying how you don't know when rabbits are ready for their food because they don't bark like dogs do. My friend said 'oh, doesn't yours growl when it wants something? Or rattle the bars with its teeth?' The friend also came in one day laughing because the rabbit had gotten so bored/frustrated in its minuscule enclosure that it had chewed apart and started digging into the tarmac beneath it, causing injuries to itself. Their solution was to put a concrete slab over the hole rather than appease the poor animal.
Also, they let the dogs run around and bark at hutch because 'the rabbit doesn't mind, he tries to talk to them by growling and stomping'.
Anyway, now that the rabbit has died
They have bought another rabbit
From Petsathome
To be kept on its own
In this same hutch