Threats of Violence from the House Rabbit Society!

​Normally, my policy is to NOT sell any pets or to the general public what-so-ever. However this breeding season I seemed to have been lucky with an over abundance of litters and offspring, so I thought what the heck I will give it a whirl. I had posted an ad on Facebook offering not only pets for $15 each (without papers) but also rabbits for the use of RAW feeding for pets and snake food at a per pound price.

Given that we were blessed with large litters this breeding season, I thought "what the heck, lets share the wealth." Bad idea!


(Because of the fact my website is VERY public I have blocked out the last names of those involved, other than my own)


As all rabbit breeders should know culling is a very important practice. Terminal culling is necessary to remove unwanted traits in stock that could be detrimental to the breed. By terminal culling, you are preventing anyone ever breeding that animal and putting those traits out there, therefore giving others the wrong impression of what that breed should look like. An option I have considered, but found very difficult, was offering the sale or give away as pets, but the new owner would have to make an appointment for spay/neuter and can only pick up the animal from the vet after the procedure has been done. However, in our area, that did not work out. So I opted to stop all pet sales all together. I am not opposed to terminal culling and do so often. However, unless the animal is ill, I am a firm believer in not wasting. Healthy cull animals are raised just like my best show potential babies, and ultimately culled humanely and quickly and placed in our freezer.


I had found it interesting that two sent messages at what seems to be the same time. I had provided one with a lengthy response, and the other with a short response. Both seemed to have viewed and seen my responded within minutes of each other. Sara was the only one whom responded to my response to her. I find it amusing that she made a large point to correct my grammatical error of using "your" instead of "you're or you are", when in her response, not only did it not make sense for the most part, her grammatical errors where more than plenty as well as several mis-spellings.


I had originally blocked all three who had sent me the nasty IM's on FB, however, it was discovered by several fellow rabbit breeders that Sara went as far as taking a screenshot of my ad and posting it in the House Rabbit Society Group on FB. Upon doing this, the members of the group went crazy. Besides their normal, "oh how mean!" comments you would expect from a group like this, a group of people that in a nutshell are pretty much like PETA. A comment was made on the post about burning down my house! (At the time that I took the screen shot, many have already "liked the statement to burn down my house)

​Additionally, there were other threats such as being shot, and feeding me to the Florida gators should I ever decide to visit the state. As well as an empty, pointless threat of "it's not the gators I would have to worry about."

The whole thread in this group carried on about how cruel I am to my rabbits by offering pets and meat in the same ad. As well as the cruelty of having my rabbits live in cages with wire bottoms (Please see my other Blog post: Housing Rabbits: Solid Bottom Vs. Wire Bottom Cages.) They continued by commenting that I should be turned in to Animal Control or the Humane Society for cruelty, and even asked if anyone was in my area that can come up to my home and save my poor rabbits from my cruel intentions.

And to Franki, I truely am not desperate for cash.  After all if they dont find homes, its okay.  We will eat them!

My FB profile link was added to this thread so that all can stalk me and see what I am all about. Unless you are friends with my, my FB profile is pretty much private. I would post public photos of my rabbits for those who Follow me to see. After this, everything is now private unless you are on my friends list. And, in order to be on my friends list, I have to know you.


One guy, had gone as far as posting how I have numerous "companies" and several other fake profile accounts and followed with posting a link to one. Please give me a moment to clarify these so called numerous companies and profile accounts:


Since I have been on Facebook, I have only had ONE personal profile account. At one time I did have an account for Glacier Mini Lops, as well as an account for my dogs (under two names as I changed names: Krazydanes Harlequinz & Immortal Great Danes). Finding it difficult to upkeep these accounts, I changed them over to a fan or like page. These accounts have since been deleted to the best of my knowledge. I ran the fan pages of Glacier Mini Lops and Immortal Great Danes for at least a couple years. Today, these pages are no longer. I deleted them because I still did most of my posting and sharing on my own personal page, all the other important things were basically posted on my website. Other than those pages, I had at one time a page for my shop, again this page is no more as it was difficult to maintain. I have also had a few other, no longer in existence for one reason or another, trying something new. But it all boiled down to having numerous FB pages too up to upkeep, so I kept my own personal page, and that is it. Now to reference the link this person posted in the HRS FB group, that is/was my daughter's page, for her rabbitry.


In my home, there are four of us that raise and show rabbits. Each of us have our own breed(s) and ARBA Registered Rabbitry names. Kassie who raises Mini Rex, uses Bunnicula. At one time she did have cavies, but does not any longer. My twin girls raise Polish and use Polish World Rabbitry. Polish World Rabbitry does have a FB page, run by my girls, but also monitored by me. So here they are, the HRS group, posting on this thread, about how fake I am, and they dont even have the correct information. These so called pages and companies I have belong to my daughters. Thankfully, no hateful messages were sent to my children.

​I was also accused of breeding my rabbits for the purpose of making a profit. As all true to heart rabbit breeders who breed for show quality standard rabbits know, there is no money making in this hobby. And that is what it is, a hobby. Not a business. (Please see my other blog post: Breeding Rabbits, the difference between a Hobby & a Business)


As a final attempt, I sent a message to one of the admins of this group explaining how this thread has gotten way out of control. This message has gone unanswered.


In closing I would like to offer a warning to all: Be careful of what you post online and who your friends are. Be extremely careful when it comes to groups such as the House Rabbit Society, PETA and the like. Know your state, city, county and Federal laws. Be careful of who you invite to your barn, and your home. Know that everything you say online and publicly throughout the internet can be held against you in a court of law should it ever go to that. You can also be held accountable to libel (written slander). Also, know your state laws for "cyber-bullying" of minors, should you ever come across such a situation. Protect yourself at all times.


The lesson I have learned by this mistake is, I will never offer up pets again to anyone. Never in any groups, or local adverts. Nor will I attempt to outsource and seek additional parties that I do not know for those interested in rabbits intended to feed another animal. All culls will be placed in our own freezer, or only out sourced to those we know on a personal level.