There are close to 30 BC rabbit breeders advertising rabbits for sale on the internet, and this figure would increase exponentially if we took into account people who do not advertise on the internet but who sell through ads, and people who have rabbits who simply put up notices at their houses. In addition to these large scale operations, there are also a number of breeders of show rabbits who sell stock as either show or pet quality. While people are familiar with puppy mills, most are unfamiliar with bunny mills, rabbitries that produce kits for transportation and sale to retailers, either directly or through brokers. Where do these unwanted rabbits come from? Some of the most common reasons for rabbits being surrendered to shelters include: Moving Kids lost interest Don't have time Can't take care of any more Wasn't mine originally and now I don't want it Don't know how to take care of it Messy Had babies. Hundreds of rabbits are seized, surrendered or brought to BC shelters alone. Rabbits are much more common as pets than people realize, anywhere between the 3rd and the 5th most popular pet in the US, Europe, parts of the Antipodes and Japan, with estimates of over 5 million pet rabbits living in the US alone. "I like rabbits, I've just never really cared about them"
Product Rabbits as pets: the pet industry Some of the animal welfare/animal rights issues facing rabbits Rabbits inhabit a cultural limbo in the animal welfare world: as domesticated farm animals they are somehow less worthy of respect and care than either the more familiar pets or the more exotic wild animals but they are frequently overlooked by farm animal protection groups because they form only a small fraction of the meat industry.
And, where many people are appalled at factory farming conditions for chickens, calves and pigs, very few know that the same problems are replicated within the meat rabbit industry. While dogs and cats are allowed to roam freely in our homes, the privileged relationship we have with them as pets has not been extended as fully or completely to many pet rabbits. Rabbits are unique in Western culture as one of the few animals that are loved as pets, despised as pests, and still bred as product for the meat, fur and lab animal industries.
"Domestic rabbits are one of the few pets that can be enjoyed dead or alive." A history: rabbits as pet, pest, and product
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