Jason let me go home from work the other day a little early so I could till my garden and get ready to plant. As I was tilling, I hit a soft spot and I looked down and saw and grey thing fling through my tiller, and then I saw another one. It was two baby bunnies that were probably around 3 weeks old. I stopped what I was doing, turned off the tiller and looked at what I did. one of the bunnies that went through the tiller had broken legs and possible broken ribs, the other one had a huge gash in its fur. I dug down further from where I was tilling and I found 2 more rabbits. 1 of the two rabbits ran off and Zoe chewed on him and then let him go. My neighbor got me a box and I put the rabbits in the box and I tried to think of what to do. I couldn't put them back in their home, I just destroyed it with the tiller, I couldn't leave them in the yard for that matter either, or they would become chew toys for Zoe.
I took the bunnies in the house and I called the vet. The Vet told me for the injured ones (3 of them) to put them in a bag or a box and put them in the freezer and let them die. He said they would just go to sleep. WHAT?!?!? talk about cruel! He also said that the mama bunny would never come back if their old den had been dug in by Zoe or if it smelt like dog at all. My only choice if I wanted these bunnies to live was to bottle feed them. injured and all. Even though the vet said the one that wasn't injured would only have a 10% chance of survival.
Later that night after I bought the formula and bottles I saw my neighbor Tanya across the street and she came over and talked to me. She told me she tried to save bunnies last year but it didn't work and they died. She wanted to come in and see them. After she saw them I told her of the problems I had with having bunnies (dog and cat wanted to eat them mainly) and she gladly took them off of my hands.
After just 2 or 3 nights the bunny with the broken legs and ribs died. But the others were healing and thriving. Its been a week now and all the bunnies are doing great and could be released back into the wild. I am thinking they might be turned into pets though. They are so cute I couldn't release them either!
Here is a picture of the bunnies now. Aren't they cute!?!?! They are still about the size of a fist even though they look much bigger here. Turns out that vet didn't know what he was talking about at all! 10% chance my butt. We didn't even need to kill off the wounded.
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That was an adventure!
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