I already knew that if you emigrate you cannot take rabbits into Australia, but I've just been reading a bit more about it and its all pretty odd.
In certain parts of Australia its illegal to even keep a pet rabbit- in Queensland they have recently upped the fine to 30,000 dollars for keeping one (£12,000) :shock:
On one hand you could say this was good in terms of welfare as it means they will hopefully not end up with the numbers in rescue as we have but apparently people still keep them illegally and dont take to the vet if they are ill as they dont want to risk the fine
And in areas where you can keep them as pets the myxi vaccination is not licenced because the goverment fear an escaped pet rabbit could lead to the wild population getting natural immunity :?
I realise Australia have a huge problem with wild rabbits, but isnt it odd they have such a different attitude to us in terms of keeping them as pets?
More about it here:
http://members.iinet.com.au/~rabbit/hrsaus.htm
In certain parts of Australia its illegal to even keep a pet rabbit- in Queensland they have recently upped the fine to 30,000 dollars for keeping one (£12,000) :shock:
On one hand you could say this was good in terms of welfare as it means they will hopefully not end up with the numbers in rescue as we have but apparently people still keep them illegally and dont take to the vet if they are ill as they dont want to risk the fine
And in areas where you can keep them as pets the myxi vaccination is not licenced because the goverment fear an escaped pet rabbit could lead to the wild population getting natural immunity :?
I realise Australia have a huge problem with wild rabbits, but isnt it odd they have such a different attitude to us in terms of keeping them as pets?
More about it here:
http://members.iinet.com.au/~rabbit/hrsaus.htm