RABBITS belonging to two Hampshire breeders accused of causing suffering to animals were in a “perfectly healthy” condition, a court heard.
Southampton Magistrates’ Court heard that RSPCA and environmental health officers seized 73 of Dawn and Pete Bundy’s 126 show rabbits on October 1 after finding them in small hutches soaked with rabbit droppings and urine.
For the defence, vet William Cartmell said there was nothing to suggest that the animals were suffering.
He said: “I inspected a number of the Bundys’ rabbits and they were magnificent animals.
“They were perfectly healthy.”
Officers spent hours removing 73 specialist dwarf lop, German lop, silver fox and satin rabbits – worth about £3,000 – from the back yard of the house on the advice of vet Kimberly Evans.
The couple, of Maplin Road, Millbrook, Southampton, deny contravening two sections of the Animal Welfare Act.
Proceeding.
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