Here is the situation
To give some background these are my neighbors across the street and about a week ago they purchased a rabbit for their kids. I watched them take the rabbit out of the trunk of their van and when I saw them take it out it looked like a bird cage without the bottom tray. They put the rabbit in the garage and it has been living in that bird cage and on the bare concrete garage floor for the last several days. It’s been in the 90s the last several days, into the 100s with the heat index, and it’s remained in the open garage for all those days. They are not giving it ice, it has very little water, and from what I have been able to tell watching from across the street it’s only being fed grass from the lawn.
The kids across the street are 8 and 5 respectively so I don’t blame them. These are just kids. It’s the parent who are the issue. But the problem is i do not think they know what they are doing is wrong since this is not the only instance of this in the neighborhood. There is a man keeping a guinea pig in a cardboard box up the street and another house keeps a husky inside all day. They don’t speak a lot of English so all my attempts at trying to help them have been moot. I don’t speak Nepali and Google translate isn’t always effective. I’ve also tried calling our local Humane society to see if they can help but apparently since the animal isn’t suffering enough for them to do anything.
I am also between jobs and have exotics myself so i cannot afford to buy them a cage, actual food, a fan, and all of the other stuff they would need if they are insistent on keeping it in the garage. But I want to help that rabbit since it does not deserve to be in a cage that small and in heat this bad. It’s a big black one too so I don’t imagine it’s comfortable. I’m afraid it’s going to die. If this was a reptile I would be able to act better but this isn’t a reptile and I have no idea very much about rabbits.
What should I do?
by gecko_sticky
