Do you think rabbits are the most neglected pets?

Question

You always hear about them being out in a little hutch in the backyard in the heat/cold. You always hear about them dying horrible deaths. Rabbits actually have a life span of about 15 years, but on average they die around age 4 or 5 since people have a tendency to neglect them. Do you think rabbits are the most neglected pets?

Answer 1

I would go with birds. I always see them displayed more as decoration than as pets. Why do people even have birds as pets, must be torture for the bird to be caged. Plus the birds just make too much noise and are real boring pets anyway

Answer 2

That is a difficult and unsure question to answer. There are so many different animals as pets that we can not tell if they are the most neglected. As far as rabbits, I had 2 and they just tend to die easily. I never neglected them. I would let them run around in the house and they were just free and cage is always clean, clean water and food all the time. I got both of them used to going back into their cages when they needed to do their business and I would clean it out right away. The thing is, they can die easily with just about anything. One of mine died from constipation and I did not know at the time that I could have tried to help him by giving him a little pineapple juice. I found that out when I took him to the vet and he was already too weak to make it. The other died from diarrhea (he was dehydrated) and was too weak to even stand up. You can not keep them close to any area where they can catch a cold. Like close to the window in the winter because the cold air seeps in and they catch a cold very easily. The are very delicate creatures. You really have to learn about a pet before buying it. The ones that you keep as a pet seems to die quicker than the wild rabbits running around outside. Most of the time, it is because we don't have much knowledge about how to care for them.

Answer 3

I think it depends on the person who owns them. A rabbit that lives to 15 is very rare. But if they are fixed they can live to between 8-10 years. 4-5 if not fixed. I do think that there is a lot of misinformation about rabbits. People simply just don't take the time to educate themselves. I think it is blessing and a curse for a rabbit to be cute.

Answer 4

Some people shouldn't have animals. We had 2 rabbits and treated them awesome, petted them, held them kissed them. They spent alot of time running around the house. And we had a hutch outside for when it was nice out, which they loved, but they always came in at night. 1 of ours lived to 10, the other only 2, she had a brain annurism.

Answer 5

They Can Be... But Some Die At The Age of 1 or 2 because of my cat... kills them.. I dont know some people love their pets and some dont. its a shame for the rabbits that get neglected.. its sad.

Answer 6

i'm affraid rabbits are between the most immediately ahead sorts of pets that are ignore and vicious save as some distance to a lot of human beings purchase them as children pets . the youngsters quickly lose interest of taking care of them and they are popular then left of their hutch with little human contact seldom wiped clean out with merely food throw in now and back. The luck one finally end up in no kill aniaml rescues yet some distance to many spend their entire existence residing in undesirable circumstances and stay solitry lives.

Answer 7

our rabbit is 8yrs old - hutch on porch in summer (gets out every day) and inhouse in cage in winter....

I do not breed her because I dont think rodents in general benefit from being pets so there is no point in making more pets that potentially will have boring lives...
we bought her at an auction..

are they the MOST neglected pet?? hard to say.. but surely rodents in general tend to be neglected more so than other pets when purchased for kids

Answer 8

Toby isn't.

He's been held for $50,000 ransom, recipes for preparing Toby in the event the ransom demands weren't met have been published, a book about Toby was supposedly due to come out in September (Paypal and all other reputable Internet financial transaction sites finally refused to accept donations to save Toby out sheer disgust at the idea of someone holding a rabbit for ransom, so the site had to resort to book sales and T-Shirt sales).

And, finally, Toby received a permanent reprieve when Bored.com bought the website, savetoby.com, and Toby for an undisclosed amount of money.

It was a very funny site while it lasted, even if in poor taste.

Apparently, rabbits are the only mammal incapable of vomiting (from a QI commercial that, alas, was very funny even if in poor taste)

Answer 9

No, I think Pet Snakes are more neglected. No one to pick it up
& play with it. No one to talk to it. No one to walk it & take pics.
No one to dress it up & take it to the Pet Store for an outing.
No one to wrap it around his neck & invite others to rub it. Or to
pet it.

Answer 10

oh gosh no, i would never neglect a rabbit. i always put a generous coat of breading on them before throwing them in the frying pan.