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Chaddesley Corbett: Rabbits found dead or dying in field

The rabbits were found abandoned in Worcestershire on Monday evening.
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Did anyone see this?
I came across this be accident the other day and just tried to find out more about it.
What on earth?
Someone just got too many and got out of control?
It’s very sad 😞
 
I follow a couple of rabbit rescues on FB, the number "people" just dump in the wild is awful, as they have got bored of them or don't realise how complex they really are

Some of them have been so friendly when collected as well

They need to stop pet stores selling them you don't get cats in pet shops anymore so why should bunnies, GPs etc be there
 
Rabbits and GPs arent my thing but I always find it sad when I see them in the pet shop.

The reality that they will probably spend the majority of their lives in a small hutch. Perhaps a small run, not much bigger outside in the nice weather.

What a dull existence.
 
We had one actually that was found on a roundabout. Someone found and picked it up then spoke to a friend of mine who said I'd look after him! When the owner was tracked down, somehow, the guy who found and brought him to me found her. she told me to keep it. I suspected she had just accidentally let him out. :(
 
This is near me, when I drove through Chaddesley woods yesterday they were still there picking up rabbits.

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Around 100 rabbits were found dumped in the woods at Chaddesley Corbett on Tuesday evening 😲 Vicky Grant was one of the people who managed to rescue some of them, listen here 👇 https://bbc.in/4es9KfC
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Honestly it makes my heart hurt, the rescue mission is ongoing and there is an organised rescue attempt tonight to try and catch some more using specialist detection equipment.

Two of my current bunnies were found as strays before I adopted them - one was rescued in London on the streets and the other one from a residential area in the Cotswolds.

There still seems to be a mentality that domestic rabbits will survive like their wild counterparts if they get released but obviously that’s not true!
 
webble said:
Looking after rabbits properly is almost as hard work as horses
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Yes as someone who had rabbits as a child I can say it was. We let us free range the garden whilst we were there and Dad made a lovely run with plywood on the roof so we could leave them in it out of eyesight.

I used to clean her out after school and 'skip' out in the morning.

Our doe got broody and lined a nest she made with fur pulled out of her tummy, vet said she'd gad a phantom pregnancy. This was in the 1980's. So we asked the pet shop if he could sell the babies and we had two litters of four each time, the second litter we kept one. The buck belonged to a friend.

In the winter Dad had the blow heater on for her down the greenhouse. She lived a lovely life, mum used to collect her from the greenhouse in the morning and have her on her lap whilst Mum ate her breakfast.
 
They're going back tonight to try and get some still left, hope they manage to get them to safety

There's pictures of the ones they've got on the various rescues pages, I wish there was an overall fund I could donate to, so many rescues have them I'd like to just send to an overall amount that can be split according to need, rather than pick one

Sounds like some members of the public did a great job catching a load and putting them in a shed ready for the rescues
 
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Crazy_cat_lady said:
They're going back tonight to try and get some still left, hope they manage to get them to safety

There's pictures of the ones they've got on the various rescues pages, I wish there was an overall fund I could donate to, so many rescues have them I'd like to just send to an overall amount that can be split according to need, rather than pick one

Sounds like some members of the public did a great job catching a load and putting them in a shed ready for the rescues
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Save a Fluff - Find rabbit info and rescued rabbits to adopt

Save a Fluff promotes rabbit rescues, adoption and helps you find your nearest rabbit rescue. Lots of rabbit care info. Rabbit rescues can have a free page on our website.
www.saveafluff.co.uk

OK not for this specific rescue but rabbit rescues generally.

Also https://rabbitwelfare.co.uk/
 
As a kid we had a rabbit who everyone lost ibterest in he did however live free range in the garden with a hutch he had free access to.
He was supposed to be mine and my brothers and i felt sorry for him so i rehomed him, i was only 9 or 10 and didnt tell my brother till the rabbit had gone, it took him weeks to notice.
We have a few black rabbits here and they wont be from domestic pets that have been dumped (i dint think) so it must be a gentic thing, does anyone know if thats possible in the wild population?
 
twiggy2 said:
As a kid we had a rabbit who everyone lost ibterest in he did however live free range in the garden with a hutch he had free access to.
He was supposed to be mine and my brothers and i felt sorry for him so i rehomed him, i was only 9 or 10 and didnt tell my brother till the rabbit had gone, it took him weeks to notice.
We have a few black rabbits here and they wont be from domestic pets that have been dumped (i dint think) so it must be a gentic thing, does anyone know if thats possible in the wild population?
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Mr P farms some fields down what they all call ginger rabbit lane because all the rabbits down there, who appear to live happily and be healthy are ginger and white patchy and apparently have been that way for years. Presumably some pets were dumped and thrived? 🤷‍♀️
 
twiggy2 said:
As a kid we had a rabbit who everyone lost ibterest in he did however live free range in the garden with a hutch he had free access to.
He was supposed to be mine and my brothers and i felt sorry for him so i rehomed him, i was only 9 or 10 and didnt tell my brother till the rabbit had gone, it took him weeks to notice.
We have a few black rabbits here and they wont be from domestic pets that have been dumped (i dint think) so it must be a gentic thing, does anyone know if thats possible in the wild population?
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Melanistic rabbits. There is the odd theory floating around that they were released, escaped and so on, but wild rabbits like lots of mammals have melanistic individuals in each population.
 
If I didn’t have the dogs or live where I live I’d have a house rabbit, as in one that had free roam anywhere not that solely lived indoors.
We had an amazing one when I was young. She just lolloped round like a dog or cat and used to spread out on the floor next to my dad, who’s always preferred the floor to a chair or sofa in the evening watching TV! She was so lovely. We had a very secure garden where she could run. She slept in a hutch at night but otherwise was out a lot.
 
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