I agree. It does look like a domestic bunny to me - though I don’t have experience with wild bunnies either. It’s also possible that it’s a wild-domestic mix, as those are fairly common (there are three in my local rescue now). Either way, it might be a good idea to call your local rabbit rescue to check it out (or maybe just send a picture and see what they think).
Ah I didn’t know that! That’s really interesting xIn the UK you can get wild/domestic mixes because your wild rabbits are the same species, and are where domestic rabbits originate. But here in the US our wild rabbits are a completely different species, so can't have viable offspring with one another.
I know, I was very surprised to hear a rescue say that! Thankfully the person caught the rabbit on their own and is taking care of him/her. My local one doesn't take owner surrenders (but will advertise on their facebook for them) but they do make every attempt to catch and foster domestic rabbits dumped outside.@bunny34422 , Like leave your chihuahua dog outdoors where coyotes lurk and let a predator kill your backyard-sniffing pet when he goes outside. ... The amount of abandoned rabbits appearing in FB groups is disturbing, gut wrenching. I happened to skim our area Craigslist postings yesterday and left with a very sad feeling.
Rescues typically ARE overwhelmed - and reputable rescues need fosterers. However no decent rescue, imo, would simply say let nature take its course. There are all kinds of "not-my-problem" people out there. // My rescue friend recently took in 6 guinea pigs, numerous hamsters, and 2 rabbits (all unwanteds or the humans claimed they could no longer care for them) - and she has special needs' rabbits already.
August 2, 2014. House Rabbit Society manager called me to help ID this bun in a person's backyard. He/she was observed on a city owner's property with decent amount of protected places. HRS manager knew of my prior experience with cottontails and the property was a short distance away. House Rabbit Society later wrote about leucism in a newsletter.
We had some wild crosses in my area ages ago. After the 2011 Feb earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand the liquefaction was so bad in some areas that people had to evacuate and some pet rabbits escaped and got left behind, then after all the houses were demolished and the "Red Zone" was made (a large area of land that you aren't allowed to rebuild houses on so now it's just got trees and grass and is rabbit heaven apart from the fact that the council is trying to kill them all off) the pet rabbits bred with the wild ones and you sometimes saw half lop buns and different colours. Now, ten years later you might see a black agouti one or slightly different looking ones but it seems all the "pet" looking ones have died off. I suppose they didn't survive as well and the rabbit colours have slowly returned to the normal colour. I wish I could have rescued all the lost pet bunnies but at that time I was only 5-6 years old.In the UK you can get wild/domestic mixes because your wild rabbits are the same species, and are where domestic rabbits originate. But here in the US our wild rabbits are a completely different species, so can't have viable offspring with one another.
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