Bright Eyes
Well-Known Member
I just had the most heartbreaking experience involving a weasel and three baby rabbits.
My mum called me outside because we heard a mother bunny chirping to her babies, and we wanted to have a look.
The mother rabbit saw us when we came outside, and she ran, but didn't run too far.
We could only see one of the babies, it was lying there frozen, and hiding, though my mum had said she saw three originally.
That's when I noticed that there was a weasel trying to get to the baby in the grass. It was super fast, and not afraid of me at all. My mother and I tried scaring the weasel away, by clapping our hands and stomping. It seemed to work... the weasel ran into some other bushes.
That's when we heard the screaming, the weasel had found another one of the babies in the bushes! I know that I should not have intervened in nature, but I couldn't watch the weasel dragging the baby through the bushes, I grabbed it right out of the weasels mouth!
It was bleeding a lot, and in shock, I didn't know what to do, I wrapped it in my sweater and held it to try and stop the bleeding.
My mother scooped up the other baby (the first one we had seen hiding in the grass), because she didn't want to weasel to get to it.
We brought the two into the house and started to panic, we didn't know what to do to save them from the predator.
That's when I heard screaming from outside...the weasel got the last baby.
It was so heartbreaking, I never want to hear that sound again.
At this point we decided the weasel had its dinner, so we put the two babies together, where we had found the first one.
Now I'm just really upset because I am wondering if I hadn't intervened if maybe the babies could have been saved by the mother? I feel like trying to stop nature made the situation much worse, and I am also just traumatized by having to watch that rabbit baby squirm in pain.
I feel so sad and guilty and just AWFUL
help
My mum called me outside because we heard a mother bunny chirping to her babies, and we wanted to have a look.
The mother rabbit saw us when we came outside, and she ran, but didn't run too far.
We could only see one of the babies, it was lying there frozen, and hiding, though my mum had said she saw three originally.
That's when I noticed that there was a weasel trying to get to the baby in the grass. It was super fast, and not afraid of me at all. My mother and I tried scaring the weasel away, by clapping our hands and stomping. It seemed to work... the weasel ran into some other bushes.
That's when we heard the screaming, the weasel had found another one of the babies in the bushes! I know that I should not have intervened in nature, but I couldn't watch the weasel dragging the baby through the bushes, I grabbed it right out of the weasels mouth!
It was bleeding a lot, and in shock, I didn't know what to do, I wrapped it in my sweater and held it to try and stop the bleeding.
My mother scooped up the other baby (the first one we had seen hiding in the grass), because she didn't want to weasel to get to it.
We brought the two into the house and started to panic, we didn't know what to do to save them from the predator.
That's when I heard screaming from outside...the weasel got the last baby.
It was so heartbreaking, I never want to hear that sound again.
At this point we decided the weasel had its dinner, so we put the two babies together, where we had found the first one.
Now I'm just really upset because I am wondering if I hadn't intervened if maybe the babies could have been saved by the mother? I feel like trying to stop nature made the situation much worse, and I am also just traumatized by having to watch that rabbit baby squirm in pain.
I feel so sad and guilty and just AWFUL
help 
