wendymac
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Okay, why would you set them directly on a dirt floor? No wonder she has fecal matter in the actual cage...nowhere else for it to go. Yuck!!
Okay, why would you set them directly on a dirt floor? No wonder she has fecal matter in the actual cage...nowhere else for it to go. Yuck!!
Okay, someone just posted this picture of their doe. It's currently in labor, with apparently a stuck kit. What alarms me is the drop tray. It's completely filled and coming up through the bottom of the cage. THIS is why ARAs are pushing for inspections for ALL rabbitries. It's not difficult to keep drop trays clean, so why is this rabbit practically standing in her own waste???
And, just as alarming, she had 1 kit so far, on the wire. The owner put it in the nest box. The wire is filthy, and a newborn was touching the floor of this cage and then stuck into a clean nest box? Wow....
Anyway, this is why I'm torn on this new law. If everyone kept their trays dumped (and other common, basic animal care practices) then ARA wouldn't have a leg to stand on.
If someone were to turn her rabbitry in, and her rabbits were taken, the "excuse" would be that she was being targeted and all charges were made up.
Anyway, off my soapbox. You can see for yourselves and come to your own conclusions. Maybe I'm just being too particular and this is the norm.
That is so sad...and that cage is disgusting! I am appalled
It was posted on Members of ARBA's page. And the picture is no longer there, or any of the posts. I'm hoping it's not because it was someone on this forum. I can't even remember the name of the person that posted it.
When I look at it really closely, it appears as if some sort of grass/weed has actually started growing. Which make sense, because it would take a tiny rabbit a VERY long time to fill up a drop tray. Poor bun...
Shame on you Wendymac!!! Ignorance like TAKING someone ELSE'S picture and posting LIES and or about something YOU DON'T know is what gets us in trouble!!! I can CLEARLY see this rabbit is clean and that her nails aren't long! That's her fur! Shame! Shame on you! I know you on FB and will make sure you are NOT accepted into my rabbit group! I don't need liers in there causing problems where there aren't any!
Here are the cages, on the GROUND.
Posting lies? I posted what SHE posted on the FB page. When she posted this, she said that one was born on the wire and she was straining like she had one stuck. While you see a clean cage, most of us see a rabbit standing in fecal matter. Period. What part of that was a lie?
TRKHoppyHomesteadRabbitry wrote:
Shame on you Wendymac!!! Ignorance like TAKING someone ELSE'S picture and posting LIES and or about something YOU DON'T know is what gets us in trouble!!! I can CLEARLY see this rabbit is clean and that her nails aren't long! That's her fur! Shame! Shame on you! I know you on FB and will make sure you are NOT accepted into my rabbit group! I don't need liers in there causing problems where there aren't any!
OMG! I can't join yet another rabbit page on FB? Whatever will I do? *voice dripping sarcasm here*
And I didn't steal the picture...to insert pictures, you copy the image url (in this case, FB storage). And I also said who the picture belongs to. I certainly didn't claim it as my own!
Which part, in particular, is a lie? The fecal matter? The weeds? The unsanitary conditions (and no, dirt is NOT sanitary)?
Lost Jewel Rabbitry wrote:
Here are the cages, on the GROUND.
What is sheltering them from the sun/rain/etc? What keeps a predator from getting to them?
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