04-24-2018, 11:59 PM
It's very sad for the shelter and the rabbits there. Plus it means destroying so much and then I suppose, re-building.
Knowing how virulent this virus is, and that it can be spread by other animals, including humans, I am rather shocked at New Zealand's approach! Not only is a mass rabbit cull deliberately releasing this virus inadvisable as we can't know how it will affect the food chain, or even perhaps evantually humans -but it is an act of intense cruelty.
It is all very well for the New Zealand authorities saying "make sure all your pet rabbits are vaccinated". But they cannot know how this virus might mutate, or affect other creatures!
Anyway I am glad to hear there is now a vaccine in B.C.
And it was very kind of the shelter to donate those vaccines to the financially less-fortunate. I hope all will work out well for them there.
Knowing how virulent this virus is, and that it can be spread by other animals, including humans, I am rather shocked at New Zealand's approach! Not only is a mass rabbit cull deliberately releasing this virus inadvisable as we can't know how it will affect the food chain, or even perhaps evantually humans -but it is an act of intense cruelty.
It is all very well for the New Zealand authorities saying "make sure all your pet rabbits are vaccinated". But they cannot know how this virus might mutate, or affect other creatures!
Anyway I am glad to hear there is now a vaccine in B.C.
And it was very kind of the shelter to donate those vaccines to the financially less-fortunate. I hope all will work out well for them there.
