Last summer I found a baby wild rabbit in ourback yard and discovered that my cattledog had dug up the nest but notharmed the baby. I called a wild life rehab person near here who toldme to put the nest back together (which I did), keep the dog away(which I did) and put a stick across the top of the nest to see if ithad been disturbed or moved when the mother rabbit came back. The nextmorning I couldn't tell if it had been disturbed by the mother solooked into it and saw 3 baby rabbits all in a row. They were sleeping.I called the rehab person back who told me that the babies (whose eyewere open and had fur) were in the process of leaving the nest at timesand then probably returning to sleep. She told me to keep the dog awayfor several weeks and leave it alone. I thought this was the correctmethod of dealing with wild rabbits and they should only be taken ifthe mother doesn't return or is known to be dead. In somestates I know that it is against the law to try to rehab wild lifeoneself. I don't understand the turn around in thinking in thisthread.