EileenH
Well-Known Member
"I'm sure they wouldn't be better off with someone else. In fact, I can think of lots of places they'd be worse off."
That is exactly how I feel. I do feel badly sometimes that my bunny doesn't get as much runaround time as I'd like. But he's in a house where he is given lots of love (I talk to him and pet him every time I pass his cage while I am cleaning), good food, a nice big pen to live in (right in the middle of my dining room). It's better off than the people who let him loose when they got bored of him, and he would have been dead from his bone infection.
He gets out for about 1/2 hour to an hour every night; I know when he wants out as he rattles the cage. But for the most part, he seems like a happy bun.
I also feel bad for my turtle who should be in a 150 gallon enclosure, and I don't have that yet. But again, she would have been euthanized after getting hit by a car; I took her in and fixed her up. Sure, she'd rather be a wild turtle (she's not native to our area so I can't release her - she was also a pet that somebody let go when they got bored of her).
We can only do the best we can. All of the bunnies of all of us here are well cared for, well cared about. I think of the poor ones who suffer in small cages, of people who really don't give them the time of day - they are just something to "have", and not to love, or the ones forced to live in cages in shelters. The bunnies on this board are lucky ones, IMO.
That is exactly how I feel. I do feel badly sometimes that my bunny doesn't get as much runaround time as I'd like. But he's in a house where he is given lots of love (I talk to him and pet him every time I pass his cage while I am cleaning), good food, a nice big pen to live in (right in the middle of my dining room). It's better off than the people who let him loose when they got bored of him, and he would have been dead from his bone infection.
He gets out for about 1/2 hour to an hour every night; I know when he wants out as he rattles the cage. But for the most part, he seems like a happy bun.
I also feel bad for my turtle who should be in a 150 gallon enclosure, and I don't have that yet. But again, she would have been euthanized after getting hit by a car; I took her in and fixed her up. Sure, she'd rather be a wild turtle (she's not native to our area so I can't release her - she was also a pet that somebody let go when they got bored of her).
We can only do the best we can. All of the bunnies of all of us here are well cared for, well cared about. I think of the poor ones who suffer in small cages, of people who really don't give them the time of day - they are just something to "have", and not to love, or the ones forced to live in cages in shelters. The bunnies on this board are lucky ones, IMO.
