eagledawg wrote:Bit of a tangent, as I see this thread is guilty of this..
Why do people make rabbits out to be such complicated pets by spreading incorrect information?
"Wire bottoms are BAD! They cause bumblefoot!"
"Rabbits need A TON of space!"
And it just goes on.
I'm not saying the conditions in which meat rabbits are kept are always optimal, but you'd think people would calm down a bit considering meat rabbits often live in smallish, purely wire cages so the waste can fall through, eat entirely pelleted diets .etc. and do perfectly fine. These people often aren't even vegetarians or anything, so they help fund the treatment of battery hens, for example, but GOD FORBID you keep your pet in a hutch outside or in a less than ideal cage.
Is it to make yourselves seem special?
I don't get it. Maybe your rabbits truly are frail since you, as pet owners, possibly don't cull heavily enough.
It depends by what you mean when you say 'a TON of space', because obviously if there are multiple rabbits/a large breed of rabbits they will need a quite a bit of space to excercise comfortably. And as the previous user mentioned, aren't all pets complicated? Rabbits do need care, food, water, a good environment to live in etc.
to live a happy life. And in my opinion wire bottoms are bad, because they dig into the rabbit's foot causing it to swell up. You said that 'this thread is guilty of giving false information'. This is not false information. It is an opinion, and there is not one right way to do things or say things, so please do not tell the thread this.