Libby
New Member
Hi,
We adopted a rabbit about 3 weeks ago. We got her off of CraigsList as a companion to our dutch rabbit.
We arrived to pick her up and saw her horrible living conditions. They had multiple rabbits in extremely small wire cages. I felt horrible for her and we took her home. She wasn't visibly abused and her feet had no sores on them and she seemed very clean.
The lady we got her from first told us she was a "HE". She even went as far to say that "he" had BRED with other rabbits, but even the vet said "he" was a she.
We were also told that she was "6 months", which I didn't really believe considering that she was very large and heavy already. The vet told us she was about a year.
Thankfully, she has a very good home here with a big pen and will get spayed soon.
She is sweet but extremely scared of everything and everything. We let her run around but she is so scared of us approaching her and will bolt off.
Even putting our hands in her pen gets us a bunch of scared grunts. Sometimes she will let me take her out and she will snuggle on the bed with me and fall asleep.
She also seems much more frightened of my boyfriend than she is of me.
To be honest, these people took such horrible care of their pets and had them in such small pens outside in the cold weather that I am going to report them to SPCA.
Is there any way that we can help our bunny? Are there any signs of abuse that I'm not aware of?
We adopted a rabbit about 3 weeks ago. We got her off of CraigsList as a companion to our dutch rabbit.
We arrived to pick her up and saw her horrible living conditions. They had multiple rabbits in extremely small wire cages. I felt horrible for her and we took her home. She wasn't visibly abused and her feet had no sores on them and she seemed very clean.
The lady we got her from first told us she was a "HE". She even went as far to say that "he" had BRED with other rabbits, but even the vet said "he" was a she.
We were also told that she was "6 months", which I didn't really believe considering that she was very large and heavy already. The vet told us she was about a year.
Thankfully, she has a very good home here with a big pen and will get spayed soon.
She is sweet but extremely scared of everything and everything. We let her run around but she is so scared of us approaching her and will bolt off.
Even putting our hands in her pen gets us a bunch of scared grunts. Sometimes she will let me take her out and she will snuggle on the bed with me and fall asleep.
She also seems much more frightened of my boyfriend than she is of me.
To be honest, these people took such horrible care of their pets and had them in such small pens outside in the cold weather that I am going to report them to SPCA.
Is there any way that we can help our bunny? Are there any signs of abuse that I'm not aware of?