sooz22 Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 In light of what I have just read on Lotties thread about the sick people who are getting kicks out of harming animals.... If you own a rabbit which is kept outside please make sure the hutch is secure. There have been numerous reports about sick individuals opening hutches and stealing or mutilating the animals they find inside. One small girl went out to feed her bunnies one morning and found that some sick b*****d had cut off both the rabbits heads and left the bodies under her swing. Needless to say she was totally traumatised. It is because of events like this that I urge you to keep a padlock on the doors of your hutches or keep them in a shed with a lock on the door. It means that a determined person can still get in but most wont bother and will go in search of an easier target. Further more when I go out I never put the external light on (it lights up the hutches to passers by) and leave my living room light on so people think im home. It is sad that we live in a world where we have to make provisions such as these but in those immmortal words, "better safe than sorry". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyBunny Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 Oh my god that is disgusting. I don't agree with buns being kept outside for a few reasons - one of the main ones being that no rabbit would survive were it to be attacked by a stray dog - no matter how secure the hutch was. To say that rabbits now have to face HUMANS in order to stay alive is absolutely horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabberwocky Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 This seems to happen often, In the 80s my niece had a rabbit in a hutch in the garden of her home on holgate avenue and one morning she went to feed it and it was gone. She found it an hour later on the fields next to the brook, cut to peices. Not torn to pieces but CUT to pieces. In the 90s a neighbour of mine on Wordsworth avenue had the same thing happen to her two rabbits, they were sliced up and left on the garden. Not nice for a little child to discover, the people who do this are obviously mentally ill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiesh Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 Some B****** did this to my rabbits when I was a little girl! Hutches have been padlocked since and kept near to the house where the security light is! I would not want my kids to suffer the trauma I did! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sooz22 Posted October 21, 2006 Author Share Posted October 21, 2006 My large two tiered hutch which I brought second hand from the tenant at The Shepley came with hooks ready built in to accomodate a padlock. The hutches had been specially made for the pub (they had 5 of them in the garden) and the padlocks were of course to keep the 'drunks' out. It amazes me that larger manufacturers are not producing hutches with similar safety devices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lotti Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 Oh that is awful As a child when I had rabbits I never thought about this (obviously) and am so glad that I never had to suffer such a horrible fright. (Then again, there was a gate to the back garden where the rabbits were) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiesh Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 I was only 9 when I found my 2 rabbits dead - it was December and by the time I went to feed them after finishing school it was getting dark so I took a torch with me right to the bottom of the garden - truly awful to find them like that in the cold and darkness by torchlight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sooz22 Posted October 21, 2006 Author Share Posted October 21, 2006 Oh my god that is disgusting. I don't agree with buns being kept outside for a few reasons - one of the main ones being that no rabbit would survive were it to be attacked by a stray dog - no matter how secure the hutch was. To say that rabbits now have to face HUMANS in order to stay alive is absolutely horrible. Havnt they always? We nearly wiped out the population when we introduced myxi. You just dont expect it in your back garden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amandakm Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 really worried now, shall go and buy padlocks tomorrow.......will be bringing Mr Bunny in for the night tonight, probably won't get much sleep as our three dogs will be frantic to get at him, going to put him in the dog crate in the downstairs bathroom, hopefully he won't be too unsettled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sooz22 Posted October 21, 2006 Author Share Posted October 21, 2006 really worried now, shall go and buy padlocks tomorrow.......will be bringing Mr Bunny in for the night tonight, probably won't get much sleep as our three dogs will be frantic to get at him, going to put him in the dog crate in the downstairs bathroom, hopefully he won't be too unsettled. Woah hold up, Im not trying to scare people. Its just precautionary. Im sure Mr bunny will be fine in his playhouse tonight. Its not like the average rabbit murderer expects to find a bun so well loved he has his own playhouse! Just get some locks sorted soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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