I've got reoccurring issues with my neighbors and the animals they keep in their yards...

I've got reoccurring issues with my neighbors and the animals they keep in their yards. I keep finding sick rabbits running around and their dog looks skinny and neglected. They've also got a goat that sits in a metal cage and screams all day. I've never once seen anyone talk to or play with the animals out there and I've called animal control to go over and speak with them. About 6 loose rabbits disappeared overnight when that happened so god knows what they did to them. Am I being a nudge or should I keep reporting them? I've tried to knock on their door and see what's up but they won't answer. Saw this real sick rabbit out there today and it's got me mad about the whole thing again.

Attached: Next door rabbit.jpg (1920x1080, 925K)

Keep reporting them

Just put the animals out their misery if animal control won't do anything also why TF do they have a goat are the Mexican or Muslim?

Good guess, Mexican. I tried to offer to help them take care of the animals they've got back there but they won't answer the door for whatever reason. I emailed a girl at local animal control who helped me out with this before, I'm waiting to hear back. They seem to collect animals they don't really want to take care of.

If you live in a state that has animal abuse laws, report them to the police. They deserve to get their ass kicked. You should also attempt to capture any remaining sick rabbits and bring them to an animal shelter. Good luck trying to catch them, though.

How long has it been since that email?

keep reporting them. do it. keep doing it.

Call animal control and police, based on the text the neighbor might be neglecting and/or harming them as well

I just saw it, maybe 20 minutes or so. She's usually good about calling or emailing in a day or so. She helped me file a police report and they've been to the house in the last month or so. I imagine that means they have some kind of open case on the animals there.

Here's what started it all - I saw this rabbit with horrible ear mites hiding in my yard one day so I caught him and got him treated. Spent about $300 out of pocket but it would have been a lot more if they hadn't helped with the expense at the shelter. I took him in and he lives with me now. This has been going on since last year.

Attached: 8889058163360786529%3Faccount_id%3D1.jpg (2048x1152, 367K)

Have you ever found any dead animals in their yard or your?

Fortunately no. I've seen some sick rabbits and I'm not real pleased with the state of their dog but it's alive and walking around. There were upwards of 10 rabbits living up and down the street that came from that house but they seemed healthy enough just not being housed or fed by the people who brought them here. What worries me is I've tried to catch my rabbit once he was better and those fuckers are fast. I don't know how they made about half a dozen disappear overnight once the cops showed up. If they were out with a pellet gun or something I didn't see it.

So you think they just offed the rest of their rabbits?

Honestly just start stealing them.

I hope not but catching one healthy rabbit is a task, the group was spread out across maybe 10 yards and they disappeared within a day of them being visited by the cops. Maybe they have some secret method of catching them? I figured if they weren't concerned with them to begin with and the cops were breathing down their necks shooting / disposing of them would have been the much quicker way to get out of trouble.

If they are spread out over the neighborhood, it's unlikely that the original owners would be able to catch them. Domesticated rabbits, which those are, do not do well when released into the wild. They get killed or maimed by coyotes, dogs, hawks, etc pretty quickly. You'll need 2 or 3 people to catch them.

They were pretty fortunate in that it's a quiet street with no through traffic or loose animals and lots of grass to chew on. They were doing pretty well as a group and most of them looked healthy but they were starting to breed out of control. I'm hoping they gave them to other people but I'm still not sure how they cornered and caught them so fast, they were able to run up and down the street freely and would never let me anywhere near them.

Free that goat dude, no mammal deserves to be locked in a cage like that. That qualifies as animal abuse because livestock are required to have a minimum amount of space to move.

That's a good point, I made sure to mention they had a goat when she helped me contact animal control and from across the yard I'm gonna guess it's like a 4'x8' fenced pen behind their garage. I hear him / her yelling a lot and see it throwing a bucket around, I want to go give it some attention but I'm sure wandering around in their yard wouldn't go over well.

Foxes, coyotes, hawks, even mountain lions coulda picked them off if they got turned loose. Depending on where you live it's not unusual for free roaming critters to go missing without a trace.

Thankfully the area I'm in doesn't have any predators like that around. I'm right outside Salt Lake in a suburb. The rabbits were there from last Spring / Summer, through the winter and when the police went over they disappeared within maybe 2 days. I'm pretty confident there was human intervention, the cops said they couldn't have rabbits breeding up and down the street and surprisingly the people said that yes, they all came from their house and they would "get them homes". I hope it was nothing sinister but I don't know how they could have rounded up so many animals that had essentially never been handled by humans. I know I pick up my rabbit every day and take him outside and stuff and it's taken months for him to let me approach and touch him without running off. It's all just speculation on my part though, I didn't see what they actually did with them.