Summer&Skye
Mama Doe
Someone I know added me onto a group on Facebook. They r calling themselves a rescue, they go to auctions and 'save' rabbits from being killed, apparently there's a man that buys them to eat so they outbid him, bring a load of rabbits to the 'rescue' and adopt them out ASAP. They don't get health checked, neutered, vaccinated, homes don't get checked, nothing. I made a couple of comments on some posts as people were asking if certain rabbits we're male or female, if they could put another rabbit with theirs etc, so I tactfully pointed out about neutering etc. Its clear the people running it have no clue and r giving really bad advice. I shared the RAWF page but it disappeared so I shared it again and it's disappeared again. I'm sure someone is removing my posts. One woman who had commented, totally contradicted herself commented on a pic of one of the latest rescues saying 'good job I don't have a spare hutch' then a few comments later said I have a spare hutch but only want a male, don't want babies! Why would she have if the rabbit is living alone if she does have a spare hutch, otherwise she's planning on putting an un neutered male in with another un neutered male?! I made a comment, not to her directly but as I'd seen a pic of her rabbits - 2 in a small double hutch and one in a small single hutch with the title 'happily rehomed' - like I said I didn't specifically direct my comment at her and didn't comment on her pic or anything but I put something like I think its sad that the rescue is allowing rabbits to go to homes where they'll live alone in small hutches. This woman said if its directed at me I have 3 happy rabbits and they don't live in small hutches (they do!!!) so I (again trying to be tactful!) pointed out that there's lots of misconceptions about rabbits and stated the housing requirements... She then posts a pic on the wall of a smallish run with nothing in it except two rabbits, saying '2 of my rabbits happy in their run'. Only just seen her last comment saying 'I have 2 2 story hutches (only one in pic but hey ho) and they get time in the run when the weather is fine... When is the weather ever fine?!! I'm just sooooooo peed off!!! I wondered about messaging the main person that seems to be involved and who's giving ***** advice but not sure if I should. He'd put a post that they'd moved to new land with loads more room to rescue loads more animals, saying they'll be the best rescue in the area the amount of animals they rescue and rehome. Also said 'we're not like other rescues, we're hands on putting hours of work in each day to care for the animals' I want to say to him, rescuing animals isn't about rescuing the most and getting them adopted out ASAP, it's about ensuring their health and well being and finding the right home and a decent amount of space with other rabbit/a for company. And it's really peed me off that he made that comment about 'other rescues' how disrespectful!! I'm sorry for the long post but I'm so upset and needed to get it off my chest and hope people on here will understand my frustration!