New bunny in the family – almost

[marysue]

A couple of nights ago there was a group of juvenile magpies kicking up a ruckus on the neighbours driveway. Upon closer inspection my hubby realized they were tormenting a nearly newborn baby jackrabbit. He dashed over and shooed the birds away. I was in the basement and missed the action. When I came upstairs my hubby was parked on the couch with the tiny baby bunny in his arms. It was only a week or two old. Its eyes were open but it could barely walk. It seemed to be only shaken up a bit. Talk about cute. It was hardly bigger than a hamster. My hubby being the softie he is wanted to keep it. I told him we needed to find out what to feed it as I suspected it was a nursling and not eating solids yet. I called our vet but they told us just to put it back in the vicinity where we found it as momma would probably return soon. We disagreed as we realized it was starting to pour and we also noticed two neighbourhood kitties on the prowl. My hubby decided to contact another vet in the area. They recommended that we take it to the Animal Emergency center about 20 minutes from our home as they would stabilize it and then send it to the Alberta Wildlife Rehab center where it would be cared for until it was old enough to fend for itself and then released back into the wild. Hubby reluctantly agreed to this but said if the center refused to care for it he was bringing it back home. Thankfully the center took the bun in with the promise that that is exactly what they do. They said that they would keep the bun overnight and send it to the rehab in the morning. It would have been interesting raising it but not in combination with home renos.

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