Well tonight our dog brought home a baby rabbit. It was covered in her slobber but after cleaning it up we ended up releasing it back to where our dog found it. The rabbit was ok and seemed calm. We found a hole by a plant so we think it was it's nest. No others there though. My wife actually saw our dog come from that wooded area by our drive. So we decided to let our dog out and watch it, sure enough it went to that area so we knew to look there.
From what I read about wild rabbits, they don't do good being captive, also many die in rehab, from what I read. Only good thing here is it seems to, Hopefully, be old enough to survive on it's own. It was close to 5 inches long, had all it's fur and eyes were wide open and ears stood up, also the wife saw it hop. Reading, the mother leaves the babies in the nest and only comes back at dust and dawn to feed them. Mother kinda stays away from the nest not to bring her scent near since the babies don't have a scent that predators can pick up on plus the babies are real good at staying still and silent from what I read.
The wife and I are hoping this Easter Buddy makes it...we will check in the morning.
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We hope to see you Peter
in the future, if you notice Peter has a small strip of white hair on top of his head so we should be able to identify him from all the other rabbits that like to hang around our area...
