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What Should I Do With This Homeless Unwanted Rabbit?
Timely Moral Advice Needed
The sheriff came and escorted the father of my child out of his apartment. The eviction was long coming. My ex lost his job due to drinking a year and a half ago. He’s been mentally deteriorating since. I wrote a story about him seeing ghosts here.
Two years ago when he still had a job and a grasp on reality, he got a rabbit from a farmer. He named him Beauregard. The plan was to build a wooden enclosure for the bunny. My son was going to help. We went to Rona and got plywood. After that we were going to get another bunny so Beauregard doesn’t get lonely. Bunnies are social animals. The enclosure never got built.
Beauregard had free rein of the one bedroom apartment and balcony.
The sheriff changed the lock on the apartment and turned the unit over to the landlord. Beauregard was still inside.
I read on a legal forum that if pets get left, the sheriff calls the Humane Society. But what if the sheriff doesn’t see a pet? What if the pet is hiding? What if the apartment is such a disaster due to a mentally ill person living there that there is no way to distinguish a pet bowl from human bowls? I guess the pet gets left like Beauregard.
