Neighbours Rabbit Dilemma

What's happened to the OP? Do you think the rabid rabbits got her??

I keep bunnies. My neighbours might well think my bun has no water because they don't touch their bottle and prefer to drink from bowls! So mine have bowls dotted around their home/the garden that they drink from. I would fill the water bottle though if I could establish that the neighbours definitely weren't in!

I have a rabbit and he has water in his bottle, in a bowl in his hutch and a bowl in his run. Sometimes the water bottle is empty and I don’t fill it right away because he’s got more. Might just be the case.

@genericbrunette is not coming back. She went round with some water and it was all an elaborate ploy by the rabbits. They have put her in the hutch and are now hanging out at OP’s house watching Netflix.

Totally this

Which will be full of detritus and excrement - I change my dog’s water bowl at least twice daily to keep it pleasant- a bowl for an animal that kicks will get foul quickly.

Please give them water. Who cares if it pisses the neighbour off.

So vile

That's vile.

Rabbits suffer terribly from neglect.
They get fly strike if not cleaned out daily, where flies lay eggs on the faeces and then maggots burrow into the unfortunate rabbit.
They get lonely
They get terrified of foxes and thump all night disturbing neighbours
They hate to be mishandled bu children, and can kick hard and scratch.

Poor Bunnies- They deserve so much better.

An adult often makes a better keeper than a child, and bunnies need space and appropriate companionship ( spayed) neutered.

OP noticed on Wednesday that the bottle had been empty for 48 hours so Monday/Sunday ?

If these poor things have had no water and likely no food - they'll have gone through what they had available and eaten their bedding too - then realistically they aren't going to survive .

If the NDN are away they probably had someone lined up to feed/water but for whatever reason this hasn't happened .

We don't know if the OP has let herself in to give them food/water , hopefully she has .

They get gut stasis without a constant trickle feed ( and that leads to organ shutdown)

You sound really kind. Your neighbours have probably gone away for the weekend. Please give them water and possibly they will need hay or whatever they eat too.

Update??

GO GIVE THE RABBITS WATER THEY CANT SURVIVE MUCH LONGER WITHOUT IT !!!!!!!!!!! I used to breed rabbits and anyone saying they may have a water bowl is loopy they fill it with hay and sawdust within an hour rendering it completely un drinkable.
Currently have rats and they always chewed the plastic round the spout so water just went all over and leaked out I now use glass bottles with metal round the rim

If there was no demand for pets then they wouldn't exist .

But they do and hopefully as people research and become aware of their needs they can give them a better life .
DD and I had eight guinea pigs over a period of eight years . That is a spit in the ocean compared to the number needing homes . But it made the world of difference to those little animals . All were from rescue .

Do you ask "Why do we keep cows/sheep/pigs on farms " ?

Noooooh - why do people keep any animal in a cage - it ain't fittin

So they don't get mauled by foxes

Rabbits were kept in hutches in Victorian times as they were food . So easier to starve and contain them before slaughter ( you want the intestines empty if you plan to eat it )

My guineas had a shed /playhouse outside and huge rabbit runs ( not those useless little circular fences with no roof) which were like Fort Knox

Indoors for winter , they had C&C / large cage depending on which group was in them.

Mainly for their own safety they are extremely vunerable to everything
If I had a £ for everyone who said Well in Peru they don't have ...... I'd be a millionaire . Mine came from Essex or Kent . Nohere near their rangey Peruvian cousins . .

But I;m sure your friend could've looked that up online ?

@Createausername1970

Your rabbit had the choice to ignore her water though !
I always made sure my guinea pigs had clean fresh water , I bought several to find one that didn't leak and settled on smallish glass ones that I cleverly rigged up holders for so replacing them was just a case of remove , clean, refill , replace without thise fiddly hooks .
The swine ignored them . Unless it was night time and they liked being noisy .

Hopefully these rabbits have been given water and food otherwise it's nearly a week

Why do people keep animals in cages - asking for a friend

This is going to sound a bit mad, but my rabbit rarely drank when she was housed ouside. I fed lots of greens and veggies every day and I did provide water, but she rarely drank it.

She came to live inside when she was about 9 and did drink a bit more. But she was getting on for 14 when she died, so lack of water wasn't too much of an issue.

But if are concerned then please don't ignore it.

Can you still see the rabbits @genericbrunette

Have the owners been back yet ?

Bunny water bottles are notorious for empying their contents or at least ours were! Would knock the door and if no answer, I would refill the water bottles. And yes, put a nice, non accusationsal note through their door because they may have rushed out. Sometines these things happen and it is not intentional at all. (We “forgot” to give our dogs breakfast the other day because we both assumed the other had done it - they eventually got it late morning!)

Does the rabbit have a water bowl? Ours has both a bottle and..... A Sand castle bucket lol. He prefers the bucket so that's changed daily but the bottle every other day or something just in case he decides to use it lol.