Rabbit Keeper Ordered to Learn Animal Care
An Ojai woman who lived in a minivan with 20 rabbits and kept 70 more in a squalid barn was ordered Monday to perform 160 hours of community service designed to teach her how to properly care for animals.
Ventura County Superior Court Judge James P. Cloninger said he did not believe 60-year-old Norma Keyzers intended to harm the rabbits she kept.
Cloninger spared Keyzers a possible six-month jail sentence for misdemeanor animal neglect and placed her on three years’ probation with various terms that included community service.
Ventura County Humane Society officers arrested Keyzers in June after they found her boarding the 90 sick and injured rabbits.
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