The first time I just carried the scared rabbit around to the back of the house and let it hop under the back deck. It's about the only place around the house that both the dogs and cat can't get into.
The second time, Son found it and decided he'd like to keep it and see if he could raise it as a pet.
We know nothing about raising rabbits. So we asked a good friend who has a domestic rabbit for advice. We did all we knew to do, but the poor little thing died a few days later. I guess the trauma was too much. He needed his mother. At least he knew in the last hours that he was loved and not in the mouth of a dog.
We had a little sample of keeping rabbits, and we liked it. They're sweet animals. We may get more one day.
you cannot keep wild rabbits, they can’t survive the stress. Their hearts race until they die. Doesn’t matter what age either. They only way to help an injured one is maybe a wildlife rescue.
ReplyDeleteThanks Amy! It's hard to know what to do sometimes.
DeleteI’m constantly rescuing baby rabbits from our dogs. They’ll find a nest of them sometimes and eat them like potatoe chips. It makes me so sad. And, I often come across them while mowing and have to be careful not to mow them over. I found a domesticated rabbit in the city years ago, picked her up, took her home, and the next day she had 8 babies. It was so fun raising those bunnies. One was a runt, about half the size of the others and not thriving. I had to feed it with a dropper and make sure it got to nurse for a while by taking the other babies out of the nest while the runt nursed,then put the other babies back because they just pushed it out of the way. It did live and I was so glad.
ReplyDeleteI'm slowly toughening up. But it's still sad. We found half a baby rabbit yesterday.
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