What On Earth Is Wrong With Americans To Allow This To Take Place, Arent They Supposed To Be Civilised!!?

[RATTER15]

These rabbits must be terrified!!! It makes me sick what some people will do for entertainment, especially involving the young children who will often know no better!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znHZ9NNjeBk

[RATTER15]

I am quite partial to rabbit pie myself actually, I have actually eaten many rabbits over the years and thoroughly enjoy rabbit.

I also eat chicken very often, I also jump up and down on the treatment of chickens, thankfully battery units have now been banned in this country.

[wildwood]

It certainly is not an activity that I would condone, but on the scale of animal cruelty it won't score very high. This is no worse than toddlers falling over and squashing the kittens/puppies they are carrying that their loving parents bought them, not nice but not intentional cruelty.

Grossly obese dogs and intentionally breeding animals with brachycephalic snouts which interferes with breathing is, in my opinion, worse.

[FredPuli43]

True, Wildwood, that is a kind of institutionalised cruelty which the Kennel Club here only made any attempt to stop when there was a BBC documentary exposing it and the BBC then refused to broadcast Cruft's Dog Show and various big sponsors stopped their sponsorship of it.

Fox hunting and hare coursing, and all hunting with dogs, has been abolished here. It is still practised in the US but not to the same extent. What is odd to us is that the docking of dogs' tails (severely restricted in the UK,by a vet, to some dogs of certain breeds which are intended for very restricted purposes e.g some guard dogs on military sites), the cropping of dogs' ears (illegal for over a 100 years here) and the declawing of cats, are still practised in the US.

[pastafreak]

"You have to remind yourself that Americans are foreigners sometimes and that our values don't necessarily make it across the Atlantic with our language."

I'm one of those foreigners-albeit one who has lived in the UK for yonks-and I found that clip exceptionally abhorant. What made it worse was the laughter from both kids and the adults watching. What the hell was so funny about it...would they have continued laughing had any rabbits been trampled?
Maybe not the worst form of cruelty-but upsetting and disturbing nonetheless.

[Connemmara]

just after entering this site which was posted earlier on - reading gness post - I can't look . bye

[RATTER15]

Wildwood, //This is no worse than toddlers falling over and squashing the kittens/puppies they are carrying that their loving parents bought them, not nice but not intentional
cruelty//
Dont be rediculous how can a child accidently falling over 1 dog/ cat be compared to 50 screaming kids scrabbling over a load of rabbits dumped in a field for public entertainment!

 So what some of you are saying is that we shouldn't post or criticise anything where there could be something far worse happening, and we should only comment on the most severe cases ?



What a very strange attitude! And that would make a pretty boring forum.

[wildwood]

^^ What a strange reaction from you, ratter! You are imagining things that I 'am saying'???

No rabbits were hurt in the activity, unlike small kids who get a puppy/kitten for birthday/xmas and carry it around like a ragdoll, often falling over and seriously/fatally hurting their 'pet'.

Just where did I say your post was not important? Eventhough you are racially strereotyping all Americans. Not one of your better posts.

[RATTER15]

wildwood ;-)