I think they have kept them knowing they won’t be able to rehome them easily having no ears and all, and now the time is coming where they are going to need neutering so they are offloading….people really make me angry. What got me was that 1 – they were asking people to take them when they haven’t even got them and 2 – that they expected a donation for them when they have not paid to get them in the first place.

I will let you know what happens. Hopefully I can have them and take them down to the sanctuary.

Sarita…that is so sad 🙁

Yes it is quite common to happen, and usually a rabbit doesn’t have any relating problems, if anything it just makes people less inclined to rehome them.

Hi all,

yes this would be Pets at Home… right now I’m really pee’d off with them. I called again yesterday and spoke to a girl who was less than helpful and quite frankly downright rude to me. She made me feel like I was interfering, would not disclose any information on the buns and said she would call me back….which of course she hasn’t done. They are stating that this adoption scheme they have is not as simple as just handing rabbits out…sorry If I am a little confused about it all but I don’t see how a store who sells animals to anybody who walks through the door can then be pedantic about where the animals that are surrendered to them go. It would be good if they had as much compassion and concern for ALL their store animals…. I’m sure we’d all be a whole lot better off. Quite frankly they claim to sell an animal only to someone they deem suitable. but how hard is it to walk into a shop and lie about your set up just to tell them what they want to hear? they have no definitive way to tell if an animal is going to a good home because they don’t have any follow up contact with a buyer.

Anyway, I have sent an email to head office and am awaiting a reply. I do not see why they are objecting to placing three rabbits in a rescue centre where they will have a better chance at finding a home as opposed to keeping them in a glass tank on display…. with no where to exercise I might add.

Soooo….. I will give it a few days and pay the store a visit if they choose not to come back to me. I have to be careful as to what I say because I don’t know who might be reading this 🙁

No, they do not want my help! To be honest I have a feeling that a store member who is aware of the situation and is a member on Rabbits united…and maybe here read my posts has intervened. I could be wrong but I don’t understand why else a pet store with ‘difficult to rehome’ bunnies would want to keep them when someone has offered to take them. I will call into the store though and see if they are there after my trip to Scotland.

If you check out Rabbits united you will see the recent topics about rabbits from this particular chain of stores… just today another member has gone and taken a rabbit out of the same supposed adoption scheme who has horrendous teeth and snuffles as well as being blind and having a deformed jaw. She was told he would need his incisors removed but they were waiting or his new owner to do that. She was lucky to get him because she revealed a bit too much information I think about herself and location….and she was sent a private message from a store employee asking which store it was.. luckily she didn’t tell them because I think they would have tipped the store off since she had reported this rabbit and store to the RSPCA. He is off to the vets now.

The PAH employees are very defensive of their workplace which I can understand because it maybe that under their management their store is doing things ‘correctly’ ( I still don’t agree with pets being sold in stores) however they are deluded that all stores care so much and being a nationwide chain they are not aware of what one store is or isn’t doing.

Oh!! just to add….head office didn’t have the decency to come back to me…. what a surprise.