By Madeleine Marr
Read this article in English at Miami Herald.
From afar, it looked like a flower.
Misty Rice-Baniewicz did not think anything about the yellow object near the face of a small rabbit who saw near his home in Parkland earlier this month.But when he examined the little animal more closely, he realized that it was something sinister.
A metal dart protruding from the face of the field rabbit, a native of the Florida.
On her Facebook page, the animal lover first explains how she found the damaged animal, and sought the help of the residents of the area to try to capture with a network to the bunny and take it to a veterinarian.
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After catching him, the dart was taken out without major problems at the South Florida Sur of Surl.The adorable convalescent rabbit is not only receiving attention from the residents of the neighborhood, but also from the Local Police, who wants to look for the one who perpetrated the abuse.
Rice-Baniewicz reported that the Broward County Police detective (BSO), Robert Rutkowski, is investigating the dart who crossed the face of the rabbit as a case of animal cruelty.
If someone has information about any suspect or finds other injured animals, they can call the detective to Robert_Rutkowski@sheriff.Org, with the case number of 17-2109-00055.
"We are going to try to make any other innocent animal suffer like this poor rabbit," Rice-Baniewicz wrote, who then added that this case is not an isolated incident.The Broward County woman said the neighbors told her that recently another rabbit was reached by a dart in a leg, in the same neighborhood, and did not survive.
Translation by Jorge Posada
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#TuNoticiaLocalThis story was originally posted on September 21, 2021 7:00 am.
