right ok,let me start by explaining
i have been with my fiance for nearly 4 yrs, he is 13yrs older than me and he has a 14yr old and a 12yr old from a past relationship as well as a 3yr old and a 8mths old baby with me.
Together we have 10 bunnies and each bunny has a lovely big run with a hutch attached to it (either on top with a ramp, to the side and up with a ramp, on about 1/2 a foot of the floor with no ramp) all our bunnies are skipped out (pooh picked and wet taken out) everyday and have a total cleanout (ok my horsey instinct wanted me to put 'muck out' in then!!! :lol: ) every 4days. i find that this suits us all down to the ground and the bunnies are all clean and happy to ensure there hygiene standards are kept high as i know bunnies are suscepitble to infections/disease/illnesses very easily is they are not kept clean and also with the wamer months approaching it is even more important to prevent fly strike. So basically our bunnies are well looked after, with fresh hay, fresh bedding too (if needed), they have dried feed everyday and veg every other day, they have special dried grass as we have no grass in our garden at all, and they have fresh water everyday. my bunnies are not the reason i have posted this thread though....&looks back at what she has written* :shock: wow that's a lot of writing there! sorry!!!
the problem is my partners childrens lack of care for their bunnies and me not knowing what to do about it. :roll:
they have 2 bunnies.....Smokey and Pepper
i had a conversation with colin* yesterday and asked how oftten his rabbits are turned out to grass/run (oh god please excuse the horsey terms that keep slipping out :roll: :lol: ) he told me that he doesnt let them out :shock: ever since they had their dog (which, by the way, is a resuce dog under another persons name but is kept there and has a massive cyst growing under her chin that they cant afford to treat...yet their mum gets to go and and get drunk every weekend and works full time etc etc :evil: ) and that dog has been there for a year. so for a year the only excersise colin gives the rabbits is once a month or possilby twice a month in his bedroom.
i then asked how often he cleans them out......once a MONTH :shock: :evil: (ooooooooooooo my blood was boiling by this time) now this is coming from a teenager that 'loves' animals (obviously not as much as pc games! :roll: ) yet he can leave them in small hutches all year and let them sit in their own filth for a month.
now i am in a very awkward situatuation and need some advice as to what to say to these children. they are building the rabbits a run (a 14yr old and a 12yr old :roll: ) so i have not got much faith that they will finish it and it be safe.
we cant afford to buy a run for someone elses rabbits...we only just manage to ensure our own ones are well looked after money wise.
now i hear the "why do parents buy a child a pet and then expect the child to be fully responisble for it" sentance rolling around in my head :roll:
i don't know what to do. this is my releationship in tatters if i speak my mind to the mother or RSPCA but i am about 3steps away frm doing so.
i want to educate the boys but when they are here they help clean out (sometime by the way!!) and help me feed the buns etc etc so why has the novelty worn off at home?
their mother is not an animal person she is a 'me me me' person (ok i only think that because the boys used to have a 3rd bunny, but colin* confided in me about the bunny losing hair, scratching and bleeding and also very bad dandruff. i advised him it sounded like under skin mites which would need injections to treat, he told his mum and she said she would'nt take it to the vets as it cost too much.....so i kept harrassing them to take it.......so in the end the bunny died and i can only imagine it was probably aneamic and had suffered a very mental breakdown from the constant irritation and pain he was in)
needless to say when the other bunny got them it was treated and she compliained it cost too much....hello?? you bought the rabbits!!!!! :evil:
ok sorry its nothing personal towards her ( :roll: )i jusr cant stand animals being neglected :x
i have been with my fiance for nearly 4 yrs, he is 13yrs older than me and he has a 14yr old and a 12yr old from a past relationship as well as a 3yr old and a 8mths old baby with me.
Together we have 10 bunnies and each bunny has a lovely big run with a hutch attached to it (either on top with a ramp, to the side and up with a ramp, on about 1/2 a foot of the floor with no ramp) all our bunnies are skipped out (pooh picked and wet taken out) everyday and have a total cleanout (ok my horsey instinct wanted me to put 'muck out' in then!!! :lol: ) every 4days. i find that this suits us all down to the ground and the bunnies are all clean and happy to ensure there hygiene standards are kept high as i know bunnies are suscepitble to infections/disease/illnesses very easily is they are not kept clean and also with the wamer months approaching it is even more important to prevent fly strike. So basically our bunnies are well looked after, with fresh hay, fresh bedding too (if needed), they have dried feed everyday and veg every other day, they have special dried grass as we have no grass in our garden at all, and they have fresh water everyday. my bunnies are not the reason i have posted this thread though....&looks back at what she has written* :shock: wow that's a lot of writing there! sorry!!!
the problem is my partners childrens lack of care for their bunnies and me not knowing what to do about it. :roll:
they have 2 bunnies.....Smokey and Pepper
i had a conversation with colin* yesterday and asked how oftten his rabbits are turned out to grass/run (oh god please excuse the horsey terms that keep slipping out :roll: :lol: ) he told me that he doesnt let them out :shock: ever since they had their dog (which, by the way, is a resuce dog under another persons name but is kept there and has a massive cyst growing under her chin that they cant afford to treat...yet their mum gets to go and and get drunk every weekend and works full time etc etc :evil: ) and that dog has been there for a year. so for a year the only excersise colin gives the rabbits is once a month or possilby twice a month in his bedroom.
i then asked how often he cleans them out......once a MONTH :shock: :evil: (ooooooooooooo my blood was boiling by this time) now this is coming from a teenager that 'loves' animals (obviously not as much as pc games! :roll: ) yet he can leave them in small hutches all year and let them sit in their own filth for a month.
now i am in a very awkward situatuation and need some advice as to what to say to these children. they are building the rabbits a run (a 14yr old and a 12yr old :roll: ) so i have not got much faith that they will finish it and it be safe.
we cant afford to buy a run for someone elses rabbits...we only just manage to ensure our own ones are well looked after money wise.
now i hear the "why do parents buy a child a pet and then expect the child to be fully responisble for it" sentance rolling around in my head :roll:
i don't know what to do. this is my releationship in tatters if i speak my mind to the mother or RSPCA but i am about 3steps away frm doing so.
i want to educate the boys but when they are here they help clean out (sometime by the way!!) and help me feed the buns etc etc so why has the novelty worn off at home?
their mother is not an animal person she is a 'me me me' person (ok i only think that because the boys used to have a 3rd bunny, but colin* confided in me about the bunny losing hair, scratching and bleeding and also very bad dandruff. i advised him it sounded like under skin mites which would need injections to treat, he told his mum and she said she would'nt take it to the vets as it cost too much.....so i kept harrassing them to take it.......so in the end the bunny died and i can only imagine it was probably aneamic and had suffered a very mental breakdown from the constant irritation and pain he was in)
needless to say when the other bunny got them it was treated and she compliained it cost too much....hello?? you bought the rabbits!!!!! :evil:
ok sorry its nothing personal towards her ( :roll: )i jusr cant stand animals being neglected :x