Concerns over rabbits leap out of control

I recently read the article regarding the question of the rabbits kept in Ponderay as part of a 4H project.

As a rabbit fancier of 25 years and having made not one single bean of profit, despite having bred and raised over a thousand rabbits in that time, I just wonder at the bureaucracy and silly red tape involved here.

Thank heaven we in England do not have to put up with such idiotic local laws which only serve to engender frustration and annoyance in the population who are, after all, the ones who vote at the relevant time and put the men in gray suits in power. The raising, husbandry and care of rabbits teach responsibility loyalty and love to a growing child — furthermore the hobby itself spreads to the family and outward and assists in the social and mental development of young minds.

I speak for the thousands of British rabbit fanciers when I say that the entire matter appears to have been blown out of all proportion considering the family involved, the number of rabbits kept and the overall totally nil profit which can be fully expected even should stud fees and sale of the occasional rabbits help to boost the cost of housing and feeding the animals, not to mention the hours spent in caring for them. A thankless task financially but nevertheless a rewarding and fulfilling hobby.

Just what is the point of your 4H projects if students are to be curtailed in this fashion? What is the point?

JUDI BOOTH

Liverpool, England