Animal Advocates Watchdog
Shooting abandoned rabbits an inhumane idea
The Province
June 20, 2006
Only now that abandoned rabbits have been recognized as a financial liability as well as a nuisance is Richmond city council considering some sort of action, albeit misguided.
The abandonment of domestic rabbits has been soaring for years.
Concerns over unregulated breeding and selling, mainly through pet stores, have been raised by animal-rescue advocates to pet store owners, the B.C. SPCA and local governments on numerous occasions.
Nobody has chosen to act to stop this madness, and it was the rabbits that suffered.
Now pellet guns are being considered as a control method.
Come on, have a heart. This would be as inhumane as it is thoughtless and pointless.
Carmina Gooch,
North Vancouver
Photograph by : Les Bazso, The Province
Messages In This Thread
- Rabbits to be killed in Richmond *PIC*
- Breeders and pet stores
- Anchorage Press: It's illegal to release domesticated animals into the wild, but many people don't realize that
- Richmond Review: Rabbits should be sterilized says SPCA
- Yet the SPCA sells unsterilized rabbits and partners with the biggest seller of rabbits *PIC*
- The SPCA's partnership with the animal-selling Petcetera can't be animal welfare *PIC*
- If it is irresponsible to not sterilize your pets, then the SPCA is the most irresponsible of all
- The SPCA's partnership with the animal-selling Petcetera can't be animal welfare *PIC*
- Rabbit release cruel
- Shooting abandoned rabbits an inhumane idea *PIC*
- The Richmond rabbit epidemic is no surprise
- Why does the SPCA promote keeping animals in cages? *PIC*
- Abandonment is not the problem
- Anchorage Press: It's illegal to release domesticated animals into the wild, but many people don't realize that
- Breeders and pet stores
