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The Animal Advocates Society WatchDog News
Breeders and pet stores
Posted By: Carol Sonnex In Response To: Rabbits to be killed in Richmond *PIC* (Carol Sonnex)
Date: Friday, 16 June 2006, at 6:19 a.m.
In Victoria, there is also a huge rabbit overpopulation problem which results in tremendous suffering every year.
Talking with various pet stores that sell baby bunnies has resulted in the same non-interested reply, "We have contracts with local breeders and must buy from them and see nothing wrong with the size of the cages we sell."
Unfortunately, I only belong to a spay/neuter society and can do nothing to make any changes except continue to go in and comment on the size of the cages and the number of unwanted rabbits that rescuers see and how the babies of the rescued bunnies need homes too etc etc (always best to do this when the store is very busy by the way)
I think it is unconscionable in this day and age that the Society that is supposed to speak out against cruelty to animals still keeps rabbits in tiny cages and does what appears to be nothing to educate pet Stores and consumers about rabbits.
Eradication of hundreds or thousands of living breathing creatures is a terribly sad and unacceptable solution to a human created problem, especially when nothing is being done at the source of the problem.
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