Hey, does anyone care?
It only
takes one bite from a tiny, insignificant mosquito
to 
end the life of a family's pet bunny!
Of course mosquitoes do not have a premeditated scheme to indiscriminatly
spread our government’s weapon of choice – the silently fatal virus called Myxomatosis.
Inestimable thousands of harmless pet rabbits have suffered and died for
no justifiable reason whatsoever. The cruel tragedy was deliberately introduced and legally endorsed as from 1950 –
a grand total of sixty two years ago! A very long time by anyone's standard!
See
source: http://www.csiro.au/science/Myxomatosis-History.html
Interestingly mentions: "It was the world's first successful biological control program
of a mammalian pest . . ." – though why not also boast to 'successfully' assassinate adorable pet
bunnies, which if they take the time to notice actually come in wonderfully, amazing array of breeds,
colours and personalities!
Sadly, pet rabbits will continue
to be ‘biologically controlled’ unless authorities are made aware of their misinformed, careless blunder!
Pet rabbits and their devastated owners desperately need you
to voice your care and concern. To date, they’ve never had a choice in the matter and whatever they’ve endured just seems
to be casually ignored or falls on deaf ears.
Watch this UK video and ask yourself why have we had to put up without
a vaccine for
such a long time? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5SB6ORKSVg
As an animal lover, please show your support by joining the new Myxomatosis Hotline website: http://www.myxomatosis.com.au/
This helpful, innovative
site contains a map of recently reported myxo outbreaks across Australia. It is easy to register and you can add a memorial
to bunnies you’ve lost to myxo. Or otherwise could just let everyone know about how much you love your rabbits and how
important they are to your family.
* The government is monitoring
the Myxomatosis website to find out how many people are interested in having a vaccine available for Australian pet rabbits.
You can also sign online petition appealing for a Myxomatosis
vaccine:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/make-myxomatosis-vaccine-legal.html
Please
help these worthy campaigns by sharing this info with your friends and family as well as adding the above links to your
websites.
Flyscreens help protect your bunnies from Myxo!
Our family business Alucom offers a special price for local Canberrans (much cheaper than Bunnings)
or in some cases free of charge. Find out how and where at the bottom of
About me page.
Now available an outstanding book for responsible
owners!
The Wonderful World of Pet Rabbits is our first
and only, proudly Australian, fully comprehensive rabbit care book!
If you love your bunnies, want to understand more about their behaviour and do right by them with housing, feeding,
breeding, health issues and so on – this much needed resource at hand is ideal for everyone.
Find out what a number of readers think about it by opening My Book page.
I don't intend to reprint hard copies again so I'd suggest
you'd best grab a copy while limited editions are still available! As an alternative option however, I
plan to convert and seperate chapters into a number of e-books. Take for instance people could choose to purchase
whichever topical subjects they specifically need or are interested in the most. In the meantime it's going
to take a some effort and a lot of my time to produce all of the e-books . . . K
Did you know excerpts
from my book are now published in an American book 'Rabbit nutrition and Nutritional Healing'?
During 2001 the author Lucile Moore contacted me to include my heading sections; 'Rabbit
Dropings - proof of the pudding', 'The Fat Rabbit' and 'The Wonderful World of Weeds'.
In the introduction Lucile said, "I wish to welcome a new contributor to my works: Christine Carter, author
of The Wonderful World of Pet Rabbits (which I highly recommend both to those who are contemplating getting a pet rabbit and
those who already have one). When I first read her book on pet rabbit care I was struck by Christine's common sense approach
to rabbit diet and asked if she would be willing to allow me to share it with those who may not be familiar with her work.
Thank you, Christine for so generously donating several pieces for this book".
Lucile fulfilled her
objectives perfectly in saying, "In the following chapters we will explore the mysteries of
rabbit diet-how the rabbit digestive system functions, what nutrients rabbits require, how much of those nutrients they need,
and what foods contain them. We will also look at what problems may arise if rabbits have deficiencies of those nutrients
and how they can be corrected. It is my hope that after perusing this book readers will be able to make more informed decisions
regarding the feeding of their rabbits".
Lucile is also the author of A House Rabbit Primer
and When your Rabbit Needs Special Care and her books are available through Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/ 
to Pet Rabbit World! 
