AliceBunny
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**I want to share this story to remind people to always be careful and alert, I was incredibly lucky but this could have easily turned into a nightmare.**
I recently went through a very scary experience with my bunny Alice. Alice is an indoor rabbit that spends most of her time free roaming in our house when she isn't sleeping in her pen. We have large yard that is completely surrounded with a wood fence but a few days ago someone didn't shut the back door completely. One of our dogs was outside and managed to push the door open to come in without us noticing for about half an hour. When someone noticed the door was open we shut it and I didn't think much of it. Several minutes later I realized that I hadn't seen Alice in a while and after a quick sweep through some of her favorite indoor hiding places we realized that she had gone out the open door.
I ran outside and checked everywhere in our yard that a rabbit could possibly be hiding but it was too late. In just a few minutes she had managed to find the smallest gap at the bottom of our fence and she was gone. I spent that entire day searching for her in my neighborhood. We knocked on the doors of all our neighbors asking them if we could search under their porches and sheds but I never found her. We called all of the shelters in town asking them to contact us if someone happened to find her but we never heard back.
After the first couple of days I sort of gave up hope and was so so sad. Four days after she ran away I woke up to a text from a friend who remembered that I had lost a rabbit recently and texted me because her neighbor had just found one. This friend lived almost 4 miles away from me but she texted me a photo of a very dirty rabbit in a cardboard box and I recognized Alice immediately.
A few hours later she was back home with me, covered in mud and urine and soaking wet. She obviously hadn't eaten any hay for the 4 days she was missing and wasn't pooping when I got her home. Now it's been about 48 hours and after eating tons of hay and pellets she is back to her normal pooping rabbit self. I am so incredibly happy and lucky to have her back home with me and I never thought that MY rabbit would be one of the ones to go missing! So be careful people!
I recently went through a very scary experience with my bunny Alice. Alice is an indoor rabbit that spends most of her time free roaming in our house when she isn't sleeping in her pen. We have large yard that is completely surrounded with a wood fence but a few days ago someone didn't shut the back door completely. One of our dogs was outside and managed to push the door open to come in without us noticing for about half an hour. When someone noticed the door was open we shut it and I didn't think much of it. Several minutes later I realized that I hadn't seen Alice in a while and after a quick sweep through some of her favorite indoor hiding places we realized that she had gone out the open door.
I ran outside and checked everywhere in our yard that a rabbit could possibly be hiding but it was too late. In just a few minutes she had managed to find the smallest gap at the bottom of our fence and she was gone. I spent that entire day searching for her in my neighborhood. We knocked on the doors of all our neighbors asking them if we could search under their porches and sheds but I never found her. We called all of the shelters in town asking them to contact us if someone happened to find her but we never heard back.
After the first couple of days I sort of gave up hope and was so so sad. Four days after she ran away I woke up to a text from a friend who remembered that I had lost a rabbit recently and texted me because her neighbor had just found one. This friend lived almost 4 miles away from me but she texted me a photo of a very dirty rabbit in a cardboard box and I recognized Alice immediately.
A few hours later she was back home with me, covered in mud and urine and soaking wet. She obviously hadn't eaten any hay for the 4 days she was missing and wasn't pooping when I got her home. Now it's been about 48 hours and after eating tons of hay and pellets she is back to her normal pooping rabbit self. I am so incredibly happy and lucky to have her back home with me and I never thought that MY rabbit would be one of the ones to go missing! So be careful people!
