'Found' a rabbit

tk123

My bro spotted a small rabbit in the same place for the last 2 days - he noticed on his way to work yesteday morning and it's still in exactly the same place. It's in a walkway by a river beside a building site. Is there anybody we can call to check it out? The walkway is separated from the road by a wall - on the way home this evening we looked over the wall at it and it looked back so it's still alive... We don't know if we should try and catch it?!

franksm

Phone the DSPCA, they will send an inspector out (hopefully)

(01) 493 5502/4

Capall86

see if it can run away, if it does not move, it may have mixomitosis, go and slap it with a shovel or something to put it out of its misery and put it in a bag, sounds cruel but really its kind, plus won't be wasting the ispca's time

franksm

"slap it with a shovel". Hardly humane nor kind.

Sounds like what happened to my cat when he got run over in October - the guy that did it got out of the car and started kicking my car while he was lying in the gutter crying. Luckily the guy in the car behind that saw this, and shout at this idiot. When Mr. idiot got into his car and tore off, the good guy recovered my cat, got the DSPCA etc and eventually back to me.

There's a story there - that rabbit might belong to someone having escaped or been stolen, and might just be petrified enough not to move.

Hellrazer

Capall86 banned for 2 weeks.Im not having this type of out and out cruelty discussed here.

tk123

They went down last night to try and catch it but it ran away. My bro called somebody who works in a vets and they're going to arrange for a trap to be put down...

franksm

franksm wrote:

"slap it with a shovel". Hardly humane nor kind.

Sounds like what happened to my cat when he got run over in October - the guy that did it got out of the car and started kicking my car while he was lying in the gutter crying. Luckily the guy in the car behind that saw this, and shout at this idiot. When Mr. idiot got into his car and tore off, the good guy recovered my cat, got the DSPCA etc and eventually back to me.

There's a story there - that rabbit might belong to someone having escaped or been stolen, and might just be petrified enough not to move.

Started kicking your cat, you mean? Jesus, that's disgusting. Seriously. Ugh. :mad:

tk: what kind of trap?

franksm

oh yeah, "cat" sorry, not car.
(cars on the brain)

tk123

bluewolf wrote:

Started kicking your cat, you mean? Jesus, that's disgusting. Seriously. Ugh. :mad:

tk: what kind of trap?

I don't know?! Not a snare or anything like that - one so they can catch him and take him to the vets!! I'll keep you all posted!

Shelli

WHere abouts in Dublin did you see this rabbit? Ans what color is it? My friends young rabbit escaped a little while ago and has not been found.

tk123

It was a black rabbit on the Fairview side of Richmond Rd

peterk19

tk123 wrote:

They went down last night to try and catch it but it ran away. My bro called somebody who works in a vets and they're going to arrange for a trap to be put down...

What do they use for Bait to catch a rabbit?