When Basil the French lop-eared rabbit first arrived at the Paws Here animal rescue centre, he was one of the most badly-neglected animals staff had seen.
He was handed in by a woman who said she could no longer cope with him and had spent his early years shut in a cold, dark hutch in her garden.
His feet were raw from standing on urine-soaked ground too long, his eyes couldn’t cope with natural sunlight and his lungs had been affected by the ammonia in the air in his hutch – which led to chronic pneumonia.
But after two years of nurturing, Basil, thought to be around five years old, will be awarded a gong for best rescue story at the annual Burgess Wetnose Animal Rescue Awards in London.
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