I have been fretting about a rabbit in a smallish hutch in the garden of one of the houses that backs onto my tennis club. I have not noticed it before but the owners have had all the trees trimmed a month or so ago so it is possible to see into the garden more.
The hutch looks to be a 3ft double storey affair, the bunny is fairly big, certainly can't stand up and cannot take more than a couple of hops. It is is under the kitchen window so cannot be viewed from the house at all.
I printed off some info from RWAF and pulled out some RWAF leaflets that I have and with a politely (I hope) worded note I put them through their door a couple of weeks ago. The following weekend the rabbit was out in it's run, it is not attached to the hutch and again is very small. Since then I have only ever seen the rabbit in the hutch, it was ignored by the mother when she went to get the washing in when I was there last Saturday and I have not seen the teenage daughter go anywhere near it.
The father is a member of the tennis club though as he works away I have never ever met him. I hoped this connection may make them more amenable to reading the info I provided but I am fearing nothing will change.
What else can I do? I am getting increasingly distressed when I go down to play tennis. I am thinking I could ask the club secretary who is a great animal lover and friend of mine to speak to them, he has had contact with the father.
I am guessing the RSPCA will not intervene as the rabbit is being fed and watered. It has no quality of life whatsoever though, and it is breaking my heart I will try and start to find this rabbit a place on a rescue waiting list and hope that the owners will be prepared to give it up if they are not going to improve it's life.
The hutch looks to be a 3ft double storey affair, the bunny is fairly big, certainly can't stand up and cannot take more than a couple of hops. It is is under the kitchen window so cannot be viewed from the house at all.
I printed off some info from RWAF and pulled out some RWAF leaflets that I have and with a politely (I hope) worded note I put them through their door a couple of weeks ago. The following weekend the rabbit was out in it's run, it is not attached to the hutch and again is very small. Since then I have only ever seen the rabbit in the hutch, it was ignored by the mother when she went to get the washing in when I was there last Saturday and I have not seen the teenage daughter go anywhere near it.
The father is a member of the tennis club though as he works away I have never ever met him. I hoped this connection may make them more amenable to reading the info I provided but I am fearing nothing will change.
What else can I do? I am getting increasingly distressed when I go down to play tennis. I am thinking I could ask the club secretary who is a great animal lover and friend of mine to speak to them, he has had contact with the father.
I am guessing the RSPCA will not intervene as the rabbit is being fed and watered. It has no quality of life whatsoever though, and it is breaking my heart I will try and start to find this rabbit a place on a rescue waiting list and hope that the owners will be prepared to give it up if they are not going to improve it's life.
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