I know we have to check where our bunnies are going but just because you go and visit someone and they show you their lovely new big hutch and agree with everything you say about feeding, vaccinations etc - it doesn't mean that they will actually bother to clean that lovely new hutch or take their rabbits to the vet......
When we homechecked for Paula and Trevor we came away saying 'that's the best home we've ever seen'. Two years later back come Paula and Trevor and two more neglected bunnies you have never seen. Nails that were curling back into their feet, eye infections, mites, Paula's teeth growing out of her head and she was so fat that she couldn't clean herself - she was caked in poo.
Then today I was told about another 'really lovely' home that two of our rabbits went to. She phoned our vet saying she was worried that her rabbits were dehydrated. She'd left them for four days alone and when she came back all the extra water she'd left them had gone! You can't leave rabbits alone that long - anything could have happened!
So it doesn't matter that they live in a super shed with an attached run and on the homevisit we talk about holiday care.
I despair, I really do, but what more can we do to safeguard that these poor little mites end up in a truely good home?
When we homechecked for Paula and Trevor we came away saying 'that's the best home we've ever seen'. Two years later back come Paula and Trevor and two more neglected bunnies you have never seen. Nails that were curling back into their feet, eye infections, mites, Paula's teeth growing out of her head and she was so fat that she couldn't clean herself - she was caked in poo.
Then today I was told about another 'really lovely' home that two of our rabbits went to. She phoned our vet saying she was worried that her rabbits were dehydrated. She'd left them for four days alone and when she came back all the extra water she'd left them had gone! You can't leave rabbits alone that long - anything could have happened!
So it doesn't matter that they live in a super shed with an attached run and on the homevisit we talk about holiday care.
I despair, I really do, but what more can we do to safeguard that these poor little mites end up in a truely good home?