Many people purchase a rabbit from a breeder or pet store as a "starter pet" for children. Because one can easily buy a cute looking baby for under forty dollars, it is commonly perceived as easy to care for and a learning tool, especially when told by the vendor that rabbits are quite happy sitting in cage and basically just need to be fed. Obviously this is not the case, and once the realities of having a rabbit become tedious and tiresome, it is deemed disposable.
A great many end up in pounds, shelters, or are simply released to fend for themselves. Others are forced to exist in increasingly deteriorating situations, the neglect appalling, the misery heartbreaking, but nobody is there to alleviate it. They suffer in silence. They have no voice, they have no choice. That's their fate.
Terry Roberge
North Vancouver