I kind of did the same thing with a pet store here. I emailed the owner, and brought them over a little packet of info about house rabbits at their request when I got an email response from them. They were eager to learn how to better care for their critters, so I was glad to put together some info for them

So I would say, if they have a website, check it out, see if you can email them expressing your wish to help them learn more about their rabbits and how to care for a rabbit that is more than livestock. They may be interested, and it is better to do that than just confront them about it.

Good luck!

I like Monkeybun’s idea, and with email you can also be anonymous if you want. An email that is more like “hey, rabbits are exotic animals and a lot of people don’t know how to care for them properly” and that you mean no offense is better than an angry email outright accusing them. The biggest thing I would stress is the hay issue and how important it is, if they end up being they kind of place that doesn’t care about the rabbits’ well being I would bet if they still would want to keep them alive at least. Either way you’ll be doing a good thing for those rabbits. Good luck

To be honest when you said he was just a baby and overweight, it seems more likely that he’s ill and its bloat. He’s only been away from his mum what, 6 weeks at most? And baby bunnies are supposed to have an alfalfa based, unlimited pellet diet until around 6-8 months. Sure no hay will up the intake of pellets, but it shoudn’t be enough to get fat so quick.

Tipsy Bunny- I can empathize with you on so many levels. Not only did the store I got Bunjamin from (I know now that I fed the problem instead of helping it) not put hay in his area, but I went into another some-what chain petstore that had rabbits in even worst condition. A quick summary: Super small cages, on pine, water hard to reach, no hay, no toys, no place to hide, etc. I wanted to post something on here but I thought it would depress people so after consulting my mom (who has reported stores before and is a big animal softy like me) we decided the best thing would be to call and talk to manager. Well, of course this poorly ran store didn’t even answer or have a working number! So I did the second best thing- I went online. Hoping to catch the attention of someone of importance I wrote a somewhat lengthy (oops) but nice letter about the importance of hay, and some of the other things I saw that were well sad. Unfortunately, I never heard back. I tried to report the store to aspca but there wasn’t a case since they supplied food and water and none of them looked sick, etc. I haven’t been able to go back to the store and I’ve been trying to make sure people know that place is no-good. Where I live the best thing I can do in my situation is spread the truth and it’ll hurt their reputation.

Basically, the point of my story is don’t be too disappointed if they don’t do anything. I get so sad thinking about it but I have to turn around and focus on my own Bun. I wish you luck and I’ll be very happy and proud if you can get them to better those buns (temporary) living situation. When in doubt, my new plan is to buy a bag of hay myself, and then hand it to an employee and ask they feed it to them. I’d hope that would maybe make them see it’s easy to do and makes for much happier buns.