Lagomorphine
Warren Scout
I have a bit of a dilemma, rabbit-loving friends.
I have a bonded pair, Willow and Charlie, living in the garden; they have a reasonable amount of space and plenty of free range time. They are happy bunnies. So far so good.
I adopted Charlie from a farm that has other rabbits too and their living conditions are far worse, some of them live in a hutch, which is really-really bad. But unfortunately the situation is outside my control, I have no say in what's going on in the farm. One of the rabbits, Sandy, is in a particularly unfortunate situation because she was paired up with an old buck that died, now she is on her own, stuck in a hutch.
I would like to do something for her but the only thing I could do would be to give her a weekend "respite", when I could potentially bring her home and give her a runaround in the garden and keep her in a playshed overnight. But I'm not sure if this is even a good idea. To start with, Sandy is completely unused to being outside; she might panic and the whole thing would stress her out. I expect Willow and Charlie will have a fit seeing an intruder but they are less of a problem, I can keep them in their run while Sandy is out. Obviously I wouldn't want anybody to get injured. What do you reckon, is this a sensible idea or am I just clutching at straws here?
I have a bonded pair, Willow and Charlie, living in the garden; they have a reasonable amount of space and plenty of free range time. They are happy bunnies. So far so good.
I adopted Charlie from a farm that has other rabbits too and their living conditions are far worse, some of them live in a hutch, which is really-really bad. But unfortunately the situation is outside my control, I have no say in what's going on in the farm. One of the rabbits, Sandy, is in a particularly unfortunate situation because she was paired up with an old buck that died, now she is on her own, stuck in a hutch.
I would like to do something for her but the only thing I could do would be to give her a weekend "respite", when I could potentially bring her home and give her a runaround in the garden and keep her in a playshed overnight. But I'm not sure if this is even a good idea. To start with, Sandy is completely unused to being outside; she might panic and the whole thing would stress her out. I expect Willow and Charlie will have a fit seeing an intruder but they are less of a problem, I can keep them in their run while Sandy is out. Obviously I wouldn't want anybody to get injured. What do you reckon, is this a sensible idea or am I just clutching at straws here?