waaaaay better.
--- In [email protected], "Ellen"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Thought this might be of interest to at least some of you--I'm just
> throwing it out there what kind of response it gets.
>
>
> Dear Amy:
>
> I live in the South. I save rabbits so they aren't homeless or
sick.
> People do not understand that rabbits are like dogs or cats -- they
> need homes, too.
>
> I have made this my mission in life to rescue and save rabbits.
> Unfortunately it is starting to wear on my family. I have more than
> 75 rescued rabbits in our home, and I am trying to start a
nonprofit
> foundation to save the rabbits.
>
> My marriage has started to suffer. My husband feels like I care
more
> about the rabbits than our marriage or children. My 10-year-old son
> hates the bunnies and my 17-year-old daughter has moved out to live
> with her boyfriend. My husband is threatening to leave and hand the
> rabbits and me over to the authorities.
>
> I read your column all the time and would appreciate any advice you
> can give me.
>
>
> Rabbit Lover
>
> If you "rescue" a sick or injured rabbit and that rabbit goes on to
> give birth to more rabbits, then dies of illness or injury, the
> rabbit leaves a family of baby rabbits that wouldn't otherwise have
> been born and are now orphaned. If the ill rabbit you rescue has an
> illness that it passes on to other rabbits, it could lead to the
> death of more animals.
>
> Seventy-five rabbits in a home is 74 rabbits too many.
>
> I read your letter to Randy Frost, a professor at Smith College in
> Northampton, Mass., and an expert in animal hoarding. Frost
outlined
> the signs of an animal hoarder, and you seem to qualify. "Animal
> hoarders begin with a mission, but then the rescue takes over and
> causes a decline in the home and relationships. The hoarder loses
> sight of just how bad the conditions are. The tipping point is
> impairment in other aspects of life -- or in the health of the
> animals," he says.
>
> I think you're at your tipping point. You have sacrificed your own
> family for these rabbits.
>
> Please turn your interest (and your animals) over to a responsible
> rescue organization and perhaps volunteer with the organization.
>
> Some states have laws dictating the number of animals that can be
> kept in a home. If authorities come into your home and seize your
> rabbits, I venture that the outcome for them does not look as good
as
> if you place them with an organization.
>
> You should receive a mental health screening. Hoarding can become
> progressively worse without treatment.
>
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