NEW RELEASES
Awwwwwwww
One of the ladies I work with came to work today with a babysitting job. Her neighbor accidentally flooded a rabbit den and two teeny tiny bunnies flushed out. They were brought to my friend since she has domestic bunnies as pets hoping that she would be able to save them. And knowing my friend, she has dived headlong into the job.
She brought them to work with her because they need to be fed several times a day. Of course, they were just the tiniest sweetest little things you’ve ever seen. Only a couple of days old, their eyes aren’t even open yet, but they are fully formed, wee little bunnies with long ears and longer back feet and tiny little bunny tails. I realize that I’m used a lot of synonyms for small so I’m going to show pictures that prove just how small we’re talking about here.
this is my hand - and I have small hands
I helped feed them and held them and loved them and named them Flopsy and Mopsy after the Beatrix Potter story.
and here are the two of them together in my hand
There was some concern that they weren’t eating enough and that they weren’t warm enough and all that stuff. It’s hard to tell – none of us have ever fostered bunnies before.
But then one of the ungrateful little wretches peed all down my shirt. We don’t have to worry anymore that they’re dehydrated.
Did you sent me an answer about my query on agents? Because if you did, I didn’t get it.
Also, I found a baby rabbit in my back yard when I was 8. It was very tiny, and I tried to nurse it back to health. I was not successful.
When I was in high school, my dad accidentally killed a momma cottontail rabbit with a pitchfork, then discovered her four little ones and brought them to me. I was successful in keeping three of them alive, but the fourth one refused to eat and died. Once they were big enough that they didn’t have to be bottle fed, about a month old, I gave them to the Desert Museum. Hal, the guy that used to go around to schools with his badger, and who also had a Sunday TV show in Tucson, mentioned me and showed my bunnies on TV. He mentioned that the DM was grateful that I raised them first, because they don’t have the man-power to nurse babies all day and night. It was almost unheard of to have three wild cottontails survive.
Anyway, I recommend something warm (a water bottle or heating pad on low, with towels or something in between, so it doesn’t get too hot) and something that ticks (such as a wind-up clock, to mimic mama’s heartbeat) be in their box. I’ve used those things to raise a few kittens and other babies animals that didn’t even have their eyes open yet. One baby was a few-days-old javelina!