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Wild rabbit

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So i was working at scania trucks today in boston uk digging holes for new sign posts and spotted a rabbit with half of its face that was rotten and full of maggots, it had mixamitosis, puffy eyes and skinny, also abdominal breathing deeply.

I had the chance to put it out of its misery with my spade, but i just couldnt do it, i feel awful about it. What is the best thing to do though?
 
Skypipdot said:
So i was working at scania trucks today in boston uk digging holes for new sign posts and spotted a rabbit with half of its face that was rotten and full of maggots, it had mixamitosis, puffy eyes and skinny, also abdominal breathing deeply.

I had the chance to put it out of its misery with my spade, but i just couldnt do it, i feel awful about it. What is the best thing to do though?
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I would take it to a vet to be euthanised.
 
Honestly, your spade idea is the best if you can stomach it, at least it’s suffering is ended.

I wouldn’t take it anywhere near a vet, myxi is horribly infectious and wild rabbits really don’t deal with stress - it’s far kinder to dispatch at the side of the road, horrible though it is.

We get a fair few round us, often you see them sitting in the middle of the road. Horribly upsetting it’s such a nasty disease :(.
 
Dill&Pepper said:
Honestly, your spade idea is the best if you can stomach it, at least it’s suffering is ended.

I wouldn’t take it anywhere near a vet, myxi is horribly infectious and wild rabbits really don’t deal with stress - it’s far kinder to dispatch at the side of the road, horrible though it is.

We get a fair few round us, often you see them sitting in the middle of the road. Horribly upsetting it’s such a nasty disease :(.
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Yea its so nasty, this was really far gone this rabbit, manmade desease isnt it? I just couldnt stomach it. If it was on its side i would have beheaded it, but it was hunched up sitting on all fours. I just couldnt bring myself to do it
 
my dad reported a fox once, in the same condition. But had been shot by someone wiyh a shotgun and it hadnt killed it, the rspca came out and shot it properly
 
Just read about it, rabbits are slowly becoming resistant to the disease. 35% it sais. Compared to when it started in Australia in the 1950's the survival rate was 0%.
It would never be allowed to make such a disease now surely
 
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