This rabbit was locked in a cage for 7 years…until now

Covered in feces, fur, urine, and mold, this small metal prison had been home to this rabbit for the last seven years of its life. Stripped of proper care, this rabbit has had to endure the harsh reality of owner neglect. Each day was a cycle of hunger and extreme loneliness. Longing for a sign that its life mattered, it asked itself, what did I do wrong? Why don't my owners love me? Interests in its well-being dwindled to nothing, and because of that, this rabbit suffered silently. It sat in its urine-stained cage covered with feces. Its stomach ached from hunger where it resorted to chewing the plastic off its own litter box. It sat motionless as boredom became its everyday life. It waited and waited and waited for a rescue that seemed more impossible with each passing day, until today. I was taking my parents to an open house because they're moving. We walked in, it was in a townhouse, we walked in and as soon as we got in the kitchen the realtor started like talking and then my mom immediately bends down and she's like oh look how cute and I'm like so I go over there and the realtor's like oh yeah they have a little bunny and I was like oh amazing and then I saw like the status of the cage and my heart literally sunk into my stomach. It was like an immediate realization of I need to get this rabbit out of here. Soiled litter, its litter box is nibbled on, clearly it's either in distress or hungry. Its water bottle is on the side but it's like over a, what even is it? So it's it's the cage with the ledge. A ledge that's tilted. Is considered like more fun, yeah second level, so they can jump on top of it. The water bottle is so low to the ground that like the rabbit would have to literally like really bend down to get water. So I'm like okay this isn't my house but like I almost wanted to open the fridge and look for veggies or something just because it seemed like I just needed to fix something. There wasn't even a single toy, like nothing for it to. No it's just its litter box it was eating. We left the open house and I started to cry and my mom was like what's wrong? I was like the rabbit, like did you see the rabbit? She goes I know it's awful. I was like no this won't do and then I got out of the car, I walked back in, I pulled the realtor aside and I was like do you know these owners? And he was like yeah I do. I was like please give them my number, this is like horrific. I said like I work with rabbits and animals, this is so horrific. He goes oh is it really? I said yeah it is. It's really really really bad. It's got poop everywhere. I said I know you could care less, I said I know you're like selling house and I'm worried about a rabbit but you have to just please give them my phone number because I want to help out. He goes oh my god I'm an animal lover, I will. I knew that wasn't gonna happen. I got in the car after that and I immediately started searching for the owner's address and long story short, I'll just skip to it, I paid like ten dollars for white pages or whatever. To find his information. After three-ish hours after texting multiple numbers, I got a number and he texted me back. He said oh hi I'm the current owner, yes um I'm happy to answer any questions thinking that I was interested in the house. I said happened to notice your rabbit and so then yeah we had a whole communication and luckily he said he'd think about it. It's his daughter's, the daughter would think about it, get back to me. I also just think it really goes to show because like when he said like the daughter will sleep on it, it really goes to show that they don't understand the urgency. Like there's nothing to sleep on, it's literally an emergency but they don't see it as that. That just goes to show how much needs people need to like learn about them. Yeah so I'm under the impression that it's her pet yeah it's not the parent's pet but I can't imagine the a 14 year old is taking care of yeah financially this rabbit. So thank god for Ava and her investigation work because if it wasn't for her diligence and like trying to get this person's number. I was looking at videos from the tour to see if I could like pause the frame and see if like there was a name on the wall from a photo. I was like I'm gonna drive back and knock on the door. It's an hour. Mind you it's an hour. We drove here an hour to get here but she was committed to doing this and so would I have been. Like I would have done anything possible to try and help this rabbit. It is kind of crazy how the universe works out like this because Ava joined me on my first rabbit rescue and the fact that she literally drove an hour to view like a random house with her parents and there just so happened to be in the middle of the dining room. A rabbit there is mind-blowing like the fact that that even happened and was led to to you is just crazy to think about. He's blind. He's blind? He's got a cataract. He's got. You sure? Yeah he's got the blue haze. I mean he is old but there's there's some kind of eye issue. I can go home and get ointment. I just really want to show you guys what he's been living in for what it's been it's been the last seven years. Seven years. I did not think it was going to be seven years. Yeah I just wanted to give you guys an overview because we do have a long drive home and just show you just how bad this living situation is for this poor rabbit. This is definitely the worst like situation I've ever dealt with with a rabbit coming from a family and being so incredibly unaware of just how bad like the kind of care they were giving this animal. It's it's disgusting. I'm just I'm like getting choked up even thinking about it. It's awful. This is literally disgusting. I just want to show you guys look how long his nails are. Oh my god. Um so we suspect that he is potentially blind just because he does have like blue like blue haze in his pupils and also when I like kind of shove my hand in his face really fast there's no reaction. He'll be taken to the vet obviously to figure out what exactly is wrong with him and what's going on in his just general health condition but the nails have been trimmed thankfully because they were literally so long it's just it was disgusting I can't believe. This is the worst this is like it almost makes me feel worse than the first rescue that we did because it's like at least they had room yeah to run around. No this is why I was panicking is because of this cage. It's it there's just absolutely no and you know it was in distress. All right guys so we just sexed him and turns out that he's not a him it's a girl. They were confident. They were so confident. Sorry about my dogs in the background um they're outside right now but yeah this is a girl. I cannot believe that seven years of having this rabbit they had no idea of the sex. They're gonna be in for a rude awakening. Oh baby. It's gonna be so cute. Oh this is nice just seeing her like move a little bit. Oh honey what are you doing baby? Missy you want to move around huh? It's definitely gonna take some time for her to adjust. Baby girl what this is all yours this is your home now. Oh my god the neck poking out. Oh what's that? I know you can explore. She's probably so used to not having any room at all. Are those pellets? And she seems more alert okay. She's so precious. Oh hi. Hi missy. Look you got soft surfaces on your feet. I know you do. Literally want Oh because that has a lot of water in it and stuff. Oh she's really evil. I've never had a rabbit. Oh oh shit I'm scared. Baby it's okay. And then she's she'll start scratching. Yeah and then when you try to pick her up she squeals. Relax. No. I know I'm very sorry to be upsetting you. Yes good girl. Unfortunately Ava's dog was just getting a little bit too excited with the rabbit and seeing it and we did not want to stress her out anymore so she's coming back to my place. She's gonna live in the pig room. She's actually going to have Molly, my recent or my last rescue rabbit, as a neighbor. Maybe that'll actually do her well with having a friend, having some kind of communication with someone else, seeing another rabbit act not as aggressive as you guys could see from those other videos. She's very territorial but honestly that's to be expected given where she had been living for the last seven years like what do you expect? Like this is pretty common. So she has changed overnight. I cannot believe how like social she is now. She runs up to the cage when I walk into here and ask for pets. It's literally like the cutest thing ever but also so rewarding to see. She was pretty aggressive the first like two days that we got her but just seeing how amazing she has opened up to me in the time that she's been here with me at my house has been so great to witness. Truthfully I just think it was a lot for her to handle with just you know moving around, being a new environment for the first time in her whole entire life of seven years. It was a lot to just honestly handle so now she is just doing what a normal rabbit should do which is wanting pets. Yeah she's doing awesome. Her eyes are still a little not like gunky but they're just a little crusty if you guys can see right in the corner. She actually has a vet visit scheduled in the next week so I will be getting that checked out. She also feels very skinny like I can feel her shoulder blades right here they're poking out so it's just unfortunate the fact that she wasn't able to you know keep on a lot of weight, gain weight but obviously with the proper nutrition with pellets. I'm gonna actually give her extra pellets, hay, treats, all that kind of stuff, veggies. She should be packing on weight and not being as small as she is. I kind of have a feeling that she might be a dwarf Holland Lopp because of her size. She just looks very very small naturally and I feel like she'll always stay this size but I really do need her just to put on some more weight because again I can feel her bones but I think for the most part she probably will stay this tiny but yeah she is very very sweet as you guys can tell which I'm really happy to see and to also witness. Hi Missy! She's so cute you guys. She will most definitely stay here with me for quite some time because I still need to get her back on track health-wise. I still need to take her to the vet. She has to get spayed. She has to get vaccinated. We have to go through the entire process for this sweet girl right here but I do not mind whatsoever because it's a pleasure having her here. I came in here in the morning and the veggies that I provided with her last night were still not touched so I just think she's honestly not used to veggies but I feel like in time she'll understand how delicious they are and probably start eating them so we'll give her a little bit more time to adjust and I feel like she'll start acting like a normal rabbit but let's say goodnight to everyone. Goodnight everyone!