Thursday, September 11, 2008
Baby bunnies
A few weeks ago Jeremy & I decided to give the baby a nickname until we decide on a real name. We decided on the name "Bunny." Ironically last week I was cutting grass and saw something brownish moving in the grass area next to me. A few minutes before I had mowed over it and decided it wasn't short enough so I went over it again. I jumped off the mower to see what it was. I first thought it was a mouse cause we have seen them close by. To my surprise it was 3 baby bunnies in a hole. I wasn't sure at first if they were in fact bunnies cause their ears were short so I ran in to do a search on the computer for pictures of baby bunnies. Sure enough I saw a picture of the same exact thing I saw in my yard. We have wild rabbits in the area so it only made since. I went back outside to see if any of them were hurt, lucky enough they weren't. I went over that hole (without knowing it) twice. I guess they were asleep and me mowing the grass woke them up causing one of them to instinctively start hopping. They didn't even have their eyes open yet. I called Jeremy and the SPCA. I was told to just cover over the hole and maybe the mother would come get them. When the kids got home I showed them the bunnies, they were so excited.
Later that night I got in contact with a lady from a rabbit rescue and she said the mother probably wouldn't move them but she would come after sun down to feed them. Following her directions I put 2 pieces of dental floss in the shape of an x over the grass covering the hole so in the morning we would know if the mother came to feed them. The next morning Jeremy said it was all moved and they were exposed. We knew from that morning on the mom probably wouldn't cover them back up and with the weather we were getting from the hurricane that was coming they would be cold so we went out to check them a few times a day. We weren't sure what to do with Hurricane Hanna coming so Jeremy had the idea of putting a baby pool over the hole but propped it up so the mom could still get to the babies. Now they have their eyes open and I know we will all be sad when they leave but I am so glad they turned out ok and we have had this chance to have 3 guests to watch grow. Ironically also in March we will have 3 total "bunnies" of our own.
| posted at 12:13 PM
