Kipcha
Well-Known Member
So in the middle of the city, there is a big cemetary right next to a busy road (One of the busiest in the city with three lanes of traffic on both sides) that a lot of people dump their rabbits off at. Not so surprisingly, the population has "mysteriously" gotten larger right after Easter, we're seeing more rabbits there then even. We have stopped by there occasionally to see if anybunny was possibly friendly enough that we could catch before, but we never were able to even get close to one before.
So we're driving home and see these rabbits and a baby appears right by the road. We decide to pull off and see if we could get it, since it seemed to be young enough to have been an easter baby, which might mean it was recently left there and easy to catch. My Dad and I went off to try and get it, but unfortuanatly it got under someones deck and we could to get it.
We came back and Mom was talking about a cute black rabbit that came over and actually nose bonked her hand, but he got chased off by a brown rabbit that came at him from down the street. They got entangled in the road and were running towards busy traffic so Mom tried herding them towards a safer place. By the time Dad and I got back the brown rabbit had run off and the black rabbit was now grazing on a lawn with a brown doe (We're assuming she was a doe, she looked very feminine and had a decent dewlap).
Originally we were going to try and catch the doe then, she looked awful with missing hair and an open wound, but she wouldn't let us near her. Made me wish we really had something else to try and trap her, but this was literally an impulse 'stop and try' moment.
Little black guy was still hanging around though and he led us on a bit of a merry chase, nose bonking our hands before spraying (We're wondering if that's why he was dumped because he sprayed a lot!) and bouncing off, seemed to be quite amused by it all. After about fifteen minutes he settled down to graze a bit. I had my one shot and quickly got him by the shoulders.
Needless to say, he wasn't so amused anymore.
He struggled until I managed to get a football hold on him and we got him in the car as quick as we could. He was undertstandably confused and stressed, but seemed to settle down surprisingly fast, to the point where he actually flopped on the seat between us and seemed to relax a bit.
We had to do some cleaning when we got him home, I was petting him and my hand came away filthy with dirt and motor oil mixed up. He looks quite good now.
He didn't want to poop the first day we had him and we were really concerned because he was eating, drinking and acting perfectly normal, he chowed down on anything that we put in front of him and he was peeing, but there was no poop, until I witnessed him pooping and then eating it as soon as it came out! Not cecotropes, but actual poop. And it was quite a pile he ate. Has anyone seen anything like that? Is he feeling threatened and trying to hid his presence?
Anyways, we're getting his neuter scheduled and hopefully little Macleod (Named after the street we got him on) can get adopted out into his forever home!
Some more pics of him now, he's so beautiful and so sweet!
So we're driving home and see these rabbits and a baby appears right by the road. We decide to pull off and see if we could get it, since it seemed to be young enough to have been an easter baby, which might mean it was recently left there and easy to catch. My Dad and I went off to try and get it, but unfortuanatly it got under someones deck and we could to get it.
We came back and Mom was talking about a cute black rabbit that came over and actually nose bonked her hand, but he got chased off by a brown rabbit that came at him from down the street. They got entangled in the road and were running towards busy traffic so Mom tried herding them towards a safer place. By the time Dad and I got back the brown rabbit had run off and the black rabbit was now grazing on a lawn with a brown doe (We're assuming she was a doe, she looked very feminine and had a decent dewlap).
Originally we were going to try and catch the doe then, she looked awful with missing hair and an open wound, but she wouldn't let us near her. Made me wish we really had something else to try and trap her, but this was literally an impulse 'stop and try' moment.
Little black guy was still hanging around though and he led us on a bit of a merry chase, nose bonking our hands before spraying (We're wondering if that's why he was dumped because he sprayed a lot!) and bouncing off, seemed to be quite amused by it all. After about fifteen minutes he settled down to graze a bit. I had my one shot and quickly got him by the shoulders.
Needless to say, he wasn't so amused anymore.
He struggled until I managed to get a football hold on him and we got him in the car as quick as we could. He was undertstandably confused and stressed, but seemed to settle down surprisingly fast, to the point where he actually flopped on the seat between us and seemed to relax a bit.
We had to do some cleaning when we got him home, I was petting him and my hand came away filthy with dirt and motor oil mixed up. He looks quite good now.
He didn't want to poop the first day we had him and we were really concerned because he was eating, drinking and acting perfectly normal, he chowed down on anything that we put in front of him and he was peeing, but there was no poop, until I witnessed him pooping and then eating it as soon as it came out! Not cecotropes, but actual poop. And it was quite a pile he ate. Has anyone seen anything like that? Is he feeling threatened and trying to hid his presence?
Anyways, we're getting his neuter scheduled and hopefully little Macleod (Named after the street we got him on) can get adopted out into his forever home!
Some more pics of him now, he's so beautiful and so sweet!
I doubt many starve to death though, it seems like the traffic and our fairly high coyote population probably take care of them before that. Hopefully we don't need to resort to a wire bottom, but if he doesn't stop we'll have to do something for sure...
