Yes I totally understand the marketing end of it... its just like Brody said people is stupid!! They are too dumb to recognize said marketing and THINK THINGS THROUGH!!!
example: The company I work for has a lot of different products.. All they have to do is nationally market one product on TV for a month and sales go through the roof on said product. Why? its ON TV!!! You get things like I want to try the new (insert name here)! Ahh its been here forever LOL!!

"What I am saying, is the when a rabbit starves to death out in a filthy cage in the corner of a yard, it is most certainly some ones fault, and it is neither the breeder, nor the seller, nor the teacher, nor the county health department... It lays solely in the arms of that person." (quote from avdpas77)

Well said.

Yesterday I thought I was going to buy some rabbits from a pet farm. They had 7 dogs individually tied to various places in the yard, all in bad shape. I walked into a corner of their yard where there was a unit of cages with no shavings, no wire bottom, no food or water. They were sitting in their filth. (I wanted to get out of there) She said "sorry for the mess, tomorrow is 'cage cleaning day'." I said there's a dead bunny in there. She said,"oh, it was fine this morning when I fed them a few vegetables"...she said "just take them and the cage for free. I don't want to have them over winter again."....so I left the cage, and took the bunnies. I didn't want THEM to starve too. I put them in cages separate from my other rabbits, in case they have disease. They ate for more than 45 minutes straight, not caring where they were or what had happened....these meat rabbits may actually get some meat on those protruding bones...if they make it! I hope they don't bloat from overeating. I am going to check on them soon, and hopefully all is well.
People like that drive me nuts! And they call themselves farmers! ha!

Animal abuse of that magnitude needs to be reported. I hope you will do so promptly, if you haven't already. It's great that you rescued the bunnies... but what about the rest of their animals?

Thanks Maggie

PLEASE PLEASE report them - even if you live in a place where little can be done just getting the complaints recorded actually makes a HUGE difference down the road ...

I cannot report them until Monday when the office is open...I hope it does some good. All those 7 dogs, and goats, donkey, various birds, etc. They will probably give him a warning, then he'll have a certain amount of time to clean up his act and fix the problems. I hope he does.
By the way, I checked the bunnies today, and they are looking better. They aren't bloated, no signs of illness, no runny noses (yet), and they are alert...and very gentle and tame. They'll make nice pets. Don't you hate it when you come home with more bunnies and someone says "more??".... I said would you have left them there? I didn't think so, lol.
My niece and I named them Barney, Betty, and Bam-Bam.

Glad "the Rubble family" is doing well. They were lucky you came along.

Even a warning may make a difference. And at least it will be on the books for future reference. Some people just should not have animals.