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April 8, 2006
Another rabbit thrown out with the trash
Well, I have another rabbit in my basement that was thrown out with the trash.
I received a call from an older gentleman near East High School saying that he found a rabbit in a cage by the dumpster. He called animal control who told him they could not do anything and gave him my number and said I would come pick the rabbit up. Nice, huh? Not sure where they got that information.
So, I told him we were full and that he could take the rabbit to our local shelter. When I told him where it was located, he said he could not afford gas to drive there with the cost of gas. I offered to pay his gas but he said he did not want to drive all the way there anyway. I asked him to bring the rabbit to me and I would take the rabbit to the shelter the next day but he said the same thing, "all the way there, I don't have enough money for gas to get to your house". Soooo.... I told him I would pay his gas if he could please bring the bun to me. When he struggled with the answer I said "I promise I will pay your gas. Honest I will pay you". I did pay him very well.
As it turns out, he owns a home and he was talking about those big city trash cans they give people. He opened his van door and brought out this darling small lop who was shivering and whimpering in this small dirty cage. The water bottle had spilled all over so the rabbit and everything else was wet. THERE WAS CHICKEN GUMBO SOUP IN HER FOOD BOWL. I about flipped. That was the first time that I had seen a rabbit being fed soup. There was a lot of cracked corn at the bottom of her cage that had gotten all wet. I think she was being fed cracked corn on the cob that people give squirrels.
She is very, very thin with a somewhat blotted belly. We put her in the pen and she was so like my little Peanut, standing up, looking all around, very friendly. We left her alone for a little bit then checked her out. She was NOT easy to pick up or hold down so we were limited on what we could do. She was very frightened and kept whimpering. After we clipped her nails and made sure she did not have any immediate problems, I put her back in her pen. She immediately turned right around and put her head down under my leg and wanted me to pet her. She absolutely knows that we saved her from a terrible fate.
Are you getting the picture now.....huh, what shelter??? I don't know anything about a shelter.
I so appreciate what the man did to help this rabbit, and I really do not like people very much. The things that could have happened to this rabbit if that kind man had not rescued her and cared enough to call me.
You can see a picture of her old cage and one in her new pen at:
www.columbusrabbit.org/polly/pollyblog.html
Updates to follow soon.
Karalee
Posted by Karalee at April 8, 2006 2:21 PM