Abandoned bunnies collected, home safe for Christmas

I am sickened and I don't know what to say.

I didn't expect things to be so bad when I picked them up. I thought I'd over reacted, that I'd gotten the wrong end of the stick. I hadn't. I hadn't taken it seriously enough.

The hutch was encrusted with grime and excrement, it had not been cleaned in who knows how long. There was no bedding, let alone a litter box. There was no hay. The food bowl was dirty. The water bottle was dirty. Their claws were not trimmed - ever. They were aggressive. They were SCARED. The hutch LOCKS were BROKEN! There were not toys, no stimulus, nothing to chew - nothing at fucking all - in the hutch.

The hutch was tiny. One and a half levels, not enough room for a bunny to stand up on their hind legs. The rabbits are not like my mini ones (I have a dutch x lionhead type and a dwarf lop type) and they are standard types, a sizeable rabbit. My lop arrived in a hutch three times the size of this one and he's half the size of them. They were kept in this hutch or a wire cage (like a big hamster cage) 24/7.

I'm disgusted.

There is no excuse for not knowing how to look after animals. The internet is now easily accessible. Google is there. USE IT. I am disgusted by how much that hutch reeked, how it made us gag, how it was full of excrement. I am sickened by humanity.

They didn't even come out to say goodbye to the rabbits. They didn't CARE.

It's not enough but they are now cleaned out, with a litter box with a full tray of hay (which they have, blessedly, already started eating) and some healthier pellets mixed in with their old ones. They have their first chew toys, woven grass things, in and they are already chomping away and working their teeth. I've given them a cardboard box to destroy.

It's really highlighted to me the work that rescues do and, frankly, I don't know what I'm going to do now. I was all in the boat of thinking, "right, the insurance is too much of an extra cost to justify taking on right now" but good god...the LIFE that these bunnies have not had! The filth they've been living in... I'll see about speaking to the rescue in the new year but, until then, we'll see. I'm hopeful, perhaps, that friends will be able to take them and give them perhaps a nice shed and a big attached run (hell, I'll bloody help them set it all up) to actually fucking move around and be rabbits again.

They will be going for their vaccinations tomorrow.

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Thank you for dealing with my animal tales. I'm just glad these guys won't be in a box on the side of the road for Christmas, even if their living quarters are still small to let them get used to moving more. They're out in a stone building with protection from wildlife with their hutch and a pen for supervised exercise now.

Amethyst