Why was Peter Rabbit killed by the SPCA?
From the AAS Watchdog Messageboard: Posted By: Carmina Gooch Date: Sunday, 24 September 2006, at 7:07 a.m. Peter Rabbit On September 13, a Dutch-breed rabbit named “Peter”, who was at the Vancouver SPCA and available for rehoming was “put down.” Evidently this rabbit bit somebody who was unfamiliar and inexperienced in rabbit care. As there are a number of volunteers, including a House Rabbit Society representative and an SPCA “approved rescue” group whom management could have consulted with, why such a hasty decision? Couldn’t the rabbit have been transferred out and into a foster home? And isn’t there training and protocol for those who handle animals? Often animals arrive from less than ideal circumstances, traumatized, mistreated, and so forth, and to be further stressed in an unfamiliar environment, without being given an allotted minimum daily time for exercise outside the cage, it should be expected that pre-existing conditions will worsen or new ones develop. Rabbits are prey a
