This is the last home those poor bunnies had - left in a park, with just this box to use as shelter (until predators find them, or worse). This is a monument to the stupidity that manifests as cruelty and neglect, when people just don't care.

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A retired police officer, supposedly well aware of the laws, claims to be at his wits' end. He has 9 bunnies in his care, and a son who is allergic to them. He decides that he is going to bring all the bunnies to a reservation and abandon them there, to fend for themselves until they die. He knows very well that abandoning domestic animals is a crime, yet he does it anyway.

He took the box full of little bunnies into a reservation and simply put the box down in a field and walked away. He thought they'd be fine, that they'd be better off than living in a cage. He thought they'd simply begin living like wild bunnies, as if it was in their instincts.


A bunny dumped outside will wait for its owner to return for a while, not realizing he has been abandoned (dumped). Bunnies develop attachments to their caretakers, even if those caretakers don't care about the bunny (they are the only social contact the bunnies know). Their hearts will be broken as they slowly realize their owner is nowhere to be found and they are all alone out in the open.

Of the 9 bunnies released, 7 of them scrambled pretty quickly, to watch things from nearby, to await the return of their human. Filled with fear about everything now, their only hope right now would be the return of their human. These bunnies have no survival skills for living in the wild. Breeding as a domestic housepet has eliminated those instincts, and they are used to having food and shelter provided for them. They don't know how to evade predators, they have no hiding places, no home, no ability to make a home, no knowledge of how to find food or water, and now, they have no family. And no safety.


The other 2 bunnies were so freaked out that they just huddled in the box, and never moved. In time, predators would simply find them there, and attack them and eat them. The last moments of their lives would be filled with pure fear, and then pure pain. They would die wondering where their human was, and why he didn't come back for them.

Sometime after dumping these poor souls, the owner started thinking about what he'd done. He actually went back to the scene of the crime several hours later, and was very susprised to find 2 of the bunnies still huddling in the box he left them in. These were the lucky bunnies. He took them back, out of danger, and back into the only life they know - being in the care of humans, and now into rescue.

The other 7 bunnies were nowhere to be found. They stayed for a while, thinking their human would return, and then something scared them. Frightened beyond belief, they probably went looking for a place to hide. They may have gone off in groups, or they may all be on their own. Either way, they are in deep trouble. Unknowing of the dangers that the wilds will reveal to them, they probably didn't pick very good hiding places. But they are hiding, and shaking with fear. Alone, scared, hungry, cold, and in great peril, the bunnies will have their first sleepless night.


Wild rabbits won't take them in. Feral rabbit colonies won't take them in. They are not free, they are food. If predators don't get them, then cruel humans will, or a car, or sickness, or starvation, or freezing to death will. The average life expectancy for a domestic rabbit released in the wild is three days.

His owner thought he was doing the bunny a favor by setting him free, as opposed to his current living conditions. He didn't know he was just putting out some food for the predators, who would soon arrive and attack the poor bunny.

Bunnies are prey animals, bred by humans and only knowing dependency on them. They are not prepared to suddently lose their home, their caretaker, their supply of food and water, their everything. Their whole world has been turned upside-down by someone who "thought" he was doing the right thing, even though he *knew* it was wrong. And because of him, they are now doomed. If they are not rescued very quickly by some kind soul who knows their plight, they will die a horrible and painful death soon.