Rabbits as Easter Gifts
Thinking of bringing home a live bunny as an Easter gift this April?Did you know that…
…Pet rabbits can live from seven to ten or more years and require the same long-term care as dogs and cats?
…Young children and bunnies aren’t such a good match?
…Pet rabbits aren’t low-maintenance pets―they have specific dietary and veterinary needs, and must be handled with care?
…Pet rabbits must live indoors, with their human families?
…Thousands of ex-Easter bunnies are abandoned to shelters or into the wild each year when their novelty wears off?
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posted by ASPCA at 2:26 PM PERMALINK
5 Comments:
I agree that kids will not pay mutch attion to the rabbit a year after they get the rabbit and then parents will give it to a shelter
If you get bored with a pet rabbit, you could eat it. or get a pet snake.
this is about the same sort of warning given out at Christmas regarding giving dogs and cats as gifts.
Animals should never be gifts. Puppies and kittens are not good Christmas presents and rabbits are not good Easter presents. You shouldn't give a child a pet for their birthday to "teach responsibility." A child should have to exhibit responsibility to be allowed to get a pet. Also, what kind of example about responsibility are you making as a parent if, once the novelty wears off, you abandon the animal.
Rabbits are a particular problem. Shelters are overwhelmed with unwanted rabbits as it is. If you do your research and decide a rabbit is really the right pet for your family, please consider adoption.
If you have a cat that hunts, don't just avoid getting a rabbit at Easter. Don't get a rabbit ever!
Our cat jumped on and terrorized a rabbit we had unwittingly inherited from a friend because he was small, and our cat is an expert mouser. The rabbit began biting, kicking up shavings, and flipping out when we opened the cage door.
We eventually had to take him to a shelter. Dumb cat.
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