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My sister has a small farm and in addition to cows and horses she also has rabbits. Every spring, parents show up to buy a rabbit to have at home. When the deal
by mingusrude 4y ago
My sister has a small farm and in addition to cows and horses she also has rabbits. Every spring, parents show up to buy a rabbit to have at home. When the deal is done my sister takes the parents aside and tell them that if they plan or feel by the end of the summer that they want to let the rabbit loose, they can return it for free.
What she does not tell is that our brother-in-law is a chef and happily makes rabbit stew of the returned rabbits. If there was ever a win-win situation, this is it.
- wszfahwbwbaha 4y agoYour sister is a bad person
- __dunder__ 4y agoDoesn't this produce a selection effect against cute rabbits? Parents are more likely to choose cute rabbits, those rabbits become pets, they either get returned and eaten or kept. So non-cute rabbits tend to live longer on the farm, and as such have more offspring and get selected for, and eventually the farm will be covered in ugly rabbits and your sister will not have any clients anymore.
- oynqr 4y agoUgly rabbits probably get the stew treatment first
- jacobriis 4y agoThis is not goat content.
- kinleyd 4y agoHmm, that does not sound right.
- KingMob 4y ago> If there was ever a win-win situation, this is it. Say what? She lies via omission to the parents, forcing them to make an uninformed choice. Instead of letting a rabbit loose in the wild, they might have sought another home for it, because they didn't want it to die. Your sister's lies mislead them into thinking they can safely return the rabbit.
- schainks 4y agoAustralia would like to have a word with you.
- withinboredom 4y agoLetting them free will likely get them eaten anyway, probably less humanly since they’ll still be alive while they are eaten. Or run over. These are domesticated rabbits, not wild ones.
- StrictDabbler 4y agoMy experience is that you don't let a rabbit go... you just stop trying to track the little lagomorph down after it chews through or digs under the fence for the third time. Rabbits are good as prey, great as pests, bad as pets.
- pluijzer 4y agoWhat the parent post means is that the owners might not have let the rabbit free bit would find an other alternative, like keeping the rabbit anyway because they love it, giving the rabbit to a friend etc. But now they think their is this great alternative of giving the rabbit back but unknowingly killing it.
- withinboredom 4y agoI’ve had several friends have rabbits in my lifetime. They all t eventually let them go instead of finding a new home. Each time I looked at them in horror while I imagined the lucky hawk having dinner. Most people think rabbits are “natural” when they may actually be invasive. So they let them go. Finding a new home is the last thing on every one of these owners mind.
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- mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y agoWhat kind of people adopt a pet, and then release it into the wild? People doing this with cats is one of the reasons stray cats are such a big problem in many places. People dumping cat litters in the woods and what not. And rabbits can be an ecological menace too if allowed to multiply, which they do like rabbits.
- drjasonharrison 4y agoGoldfish, turtles, snakes, lizards, rabbits, etc are all animals people bought for pets and then decided that they didn't want them and released them into the "wild" to be "free" without considering the consequences for the animal or the environment.
- inkcapmushroom 4y ago>What kind of people adopt a pet, and then release it into the wild? I have a friend who just acquired a ball python because the frat house behind her left the snake tank, with the snake inside it, out with the trash can. Many people have no regard for animals and even less regard for their impact on the world around them.
- arcanemachined 4y ago> What kind of people adopt a pet, and then release it into the wild? Have you seen how much litter people throw on the ground? I think you might be giving the average person too much credit.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y agoI'm not talking about cat litter I'm talking about litters of kittens. Who gives a fuck about litter? Unless you're talking about litter as in garbage. But if you think dumping helpless animals under your care to fend for themselves is morally equivalent to littering, I'm not even sure what to say to that. It's not even in the same ballpark.
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- dunefox 4y agoYeah, sounds like a win-win situation alright - the pet rabbit gets slaughtered, the children and parents are lied to. Your sister sounds like a great person.
- wszfahwbwbaha 4y agoIt's seriously skeezy. One of those comments that makes me have less faith in humanity.
- freilanzer 4y agoAgreed, that seems rather questionable.