Scholarly work on the nonhuman animal shelter population has widely focused on cats and dogs. As a result, little is known about the population dynamics of domestic rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in shelters. The records from 4 companion animal shelters in Massachusetts and Rhode Island were analyzed to describe these dynamics. A majority of the rabbits at the 4 shelters were surrendered by th...

A tumor-like condition has been observed in a wild cottontail rabbit and has been found to be transmissible to both wild and domestic rabbits but not to guinea pigs, white rats, white mice, or chickens. The clinical picture of the experimentally produced condition and the pathological picture of the original and experimentally produced tumors have been described. The tumor has the general appea...

A new, widespread and important disease of rabbits, rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD), is concisely reviewed and discussed. RHD is an acute, infectious condition of adult rabbits and morbidity and mortality, after a relatively short incubation period, can be very high. The disease appears typically as a necrotizing hepatitis with associated haemorrhaging, and death occurs as a result of general...

The shortages of meat during the last world war stimulated the use of the rabbit as a meat animal. A series of studies was carried out by Hutchinson (1947a, 6 ) and Hutchinson & Baker (1949) dealing with the nutrition of domestic rabbits. The possibilities of the rabbit as a meat animal for underdeveloped areas stimulate further study. This paper reports a study of the efficiency of conversion ...

The study focused on the comparison of health cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, rabbits, poultry and ostriches slaughtered in slaughterhouses Czech Republic based occurrence findings detected during a postmortem veterinary inspection period from 2010 to 2019. level was expressed as so-called PA index obtained by ratio number total observations (15) pathoanatomical examination slaughterhouse multiplie...