- Sep 19, 2011
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1. Reportedly Debe requested that HRS wait for the warrant off of her property. The sheriff's department refused.
2. Understand this is a culling rabbitry. In other words, people who could not bring themselves to slaughter their own rabbits, brought them to Debe to do so. I don't remember now if those rabbits went to the zoo or to a reptile group, but nevertheless, not all the rabbits in the photos were Debe's. I believe 20 of them, could be wrong, had just been dumped at Debe's by another breeder a couple days before and Debe was to slaughter them over the upcoming weekend. So those may be some of the rabbits in the pics.
Remember, people never dump, cull or slaughter rabbits that are in excellent condition, not sick, not matted etc. Rabbits that are ready to slaughter tend to be in really poor condition unless someone has raised them specifically as meat rabbits and they would look prime.
Angoras though? May be a mess before slaughter. It depends on what the rabbit's particular problem is.
One of the issues affecting reactions to the Bell case is people forget rabbits ARE livestock. They are not the little house pets living on white wall to wall carpeting in the living room as put out by HRS. If people are highly affected by HRS propaganda they will be horribly shocked at what are fairly normal conditions in Debe's barn. One of the reasons I only keep less than 12 rabbits at a time is because sorry, they poop and make huge messes.
Another reason people are seriously anti Debe at times is because she does slaughter. The fact is, this is a farm, slaughter is legal, done humanely, as dictated by SPCA and USDA, and rabbit meat is very big business in this country. HRS would like people to believe otherwise. Yet millions of pounds of frozen rabbit meat is produced for grocery chains every year.
But if people are of the bent that rabbits are like dogs and cats, well...that will seriously prejudice their view of Debe.
2. Understand this is a culling rabbitry. In other words, people who could not bring themselves to slaughter their own rabbits, brought them to Debe to do so. I don't remember now if those rabbits went to the zoo or to a reptile group, but nevertheless, not all the rabbits in the photos were Debe's. I believe 20 of them, could be wrong, had just been dumped at Debe's by another breeder a couple days before and Debe was to slaughter them over the upcoming weekend. So those may be some of the rabbits in the pics.
Remember, people never dump, cull or slaughter rabbits that are in excellent condition, not sick, not matted etc. Rabbits that are ready to slaughter tend to be in really poor condition unless someone has raised them specifically as meat rabbits and they would look prime.
Angoras though? May be a mess before slaughter. It depends on what the rabbit's particular problem is.
One of the issues affecting reactions to the Bell case is people forget rabbits ARE livestock. They are not the little house pets living on white wall to wall carpeting in the living room as put out by HRS. If people are highly affected by HRS propaganda they will be horribly shocked at what are fairly normal conditions in Debe's barn. One of the reasons I only keep less than 12 rabbits at a time is because sorry, they poop and make huge messes.
Another reason people are seriously anti Debe at times is because she does slaughter. The fact is, this is a farm, slaughter is legal, done humanely, as dictated by SPCA and USDA, and rabbit meat is very big business in this country. HRS would like people to believe otherwise. Yet millions of pounds of frozen rabbit meat is produced for grocery chains every year.
But if people are of the bent that rabbits are like dogs and cats, well...that will seriously prejudice their view of Debe.