parsnipbun
Wise Old Thumper
Try to word this carefully as I am NOT being anti non traditional English cultures - just posing some thoughts:
As you might see from my other thread we have just taken on a bun from a Gumtree ad - free with hutch (though actually in retrospect I wonder if this also was a language problem and rather than 'Hutch for sale £30, with rabbit' they meant 'Hutch and rabbit £30')
Organising the pick up was tricky as the emails from them were very very short and also did not always answer what I asked -
the reason became obvious when we met - as the husband who we had been dealing with did not speak much English at all - had come over 10 years ago with no English - so really had made a lot of progress but still very limited - but enough to have a job with as worked with people of same language. Wife born here and good English but in quite inward looking cultural background without pets.
They really were very nice and their house immaculate, very young children very well behaved, they kept parrots inside in fab condition and loads of space - and gave us tea etc etc were kind people, . but just didnt know anything about rabbits. They knew about parrots as had kept them in India - but assumed rabbits just ate cabbage and carrots and died young.
When I asked them why they hadnt contacted a rescue to try and take him and they genuinely had no idea there were such things for rabbits so had not done so - also wanted money for the hutch so decided to sell that and thought just giving away rabbit with it was ONLY way to get rid of it. So this bun would never have reached rescue -
Gave rise to some thoughts on my part - Is RWAF etc information just not getting into some of the ethnic/cultures that are now starting to participate in 'traditional' getting rabbit for the children - presumably children are picking this up from their schools?
And if this is the case what can be done about it? If they dont even know about rescues how can the buns get to the rescue if its needed, or how does info on vets, feeding etc get to the families??
Could there be a fund raising scheme to get leaflets in different languages? and where would they be given away? Schools?
Would be interested in any rescues experience with this -
As you might see from my other thread we have just taken on a bun from a Gumtree ad - free with hutch (though actually in retrospect I wonder if this also was a language problem and rather than 'Hutch for sale £30, with rabbit' they meant 'Hutch and rabbit £30')
Organising the pick up was tricky as the emails from them were very very short and also did not always answer what I asked -
the reason became obvious when we met - as the husband who we had been dealing with did not speak much English at all - had come over 10 years ago with no English - so really had made a lot of progress but still very limited - but enough to have a job with as worked with people of same language. Wife born here and good English but in quite inward looking cultural background without pets.
They really were very nice and their house immaculate, very young children very well behaved, they kept parrots inside in fab condition and loads of space - and gave us tea etc etc were kind people, . but just didnt know anything about rabbits. They knew about parrots as had kept them in India - but assumed rabbits just ate cabbage and carrots and died young.
When I asked them why they hadnt contacted a rescue to try and take him and they genuinely had no idea there were such things for rabbits so had not done so - also wanted money for the hutch so decided to sell that and thought just giving away rabbit with it was ONLY way to get rid of it. So this bun would never have reached rescue -
Gave rise to some thoughts on my part - Is RWAF etc information just not getting into some of the ethnic/cultures that are now starting to participate in 'traditional' getting rabbit for the children - presumably children are picking this up from their schools?
And if this is the case what can be done about it? If they dont even know about rescues how can the buns get to the rescue if its needed, or how does info on vets, feeding etc get to the families??
Could there be a fund raising scheme to get leaflets in different languages? and where would they be given away? Schools?
Would be interested in any rescues experience with this -