Dorota Trec faces up to a year in jail if she is convicted of animal cruelty, but she is countersuing her accusers after her bunnies were taken away from her.
A woman is accused of keeping 176 rabbits in filthy conditions in Brooklyn, and the woman is countersuing her accused for $2 billion in damages in what is set to be a wild courtroom battle.
Dorota Trec, 35, keeps so many bunnies that she is known as the Rabbit Woman of Gowanus, and she faces up to a year in jail if the courts find her guilty of animal cruelty charges, according to a Telegraph report. Prosecutors say her bunnies were suffering from diseases and had bite wounds from fights.
However, Trec is fighting back — big time. The piano teacher is accusing Natalie Reeves, an animal welfare campaigner, along with others of attempting to smear her and take away her pets, and she is seeking a whopping $2 billion in damages.
Reeves, who is the founder of Big Apple Bunnies, wants “control over the whole rabbit world” in New York, Trec alleges in documents that were filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court.
Trec claims that she often saves bunnies from commercial farms. She has become a local celebrity of sorts, and was featured on a local news website, which referred to “chicken wing-eating” rabbits.
She was arrested last month after the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals confiscated her pets. Trec claims that her accusers were causing her a great amount of distress due to losing her rabbits and being accused of cruelty.
Reeves, however, dismissed the suit as a stunt and used the opportunity to tell the New York Post that people should be responsible giving away rabbits as pets, especially around Easter.
