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baby bunny :c
By: dawnfire111 Date: May 11, 2015, 10:33 pm
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so today my stupid cat brought a live baby bunny in. at first i
was excited, but after looking up some stuff on the internet
about them, i'm really worried for him. we tried feeding him a
formula i found of evaporated milk, egg yolk, water, and sugar,
but he didn't eat much of it. we know nothing about caring for a
bunny or releasing him back to the wild, so if you guys have any
tips, please let me know. i love bunnies so much, you don't even
know, but i have the feeling he's not going to make it and i'm
really sad rn okay. ;-;
[s]btw i love my cat okay but he isn't the brightest crayon in
the box like srsly[/s]
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Re: baby bunny :c
By: black rose Date: May 11, 2015, 11:14 pm
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This Is A Common Story That Clients Tell Me:
"I was mowing the grass and accidentally went over a cottontail
rabbit nest. Some of the babies are still alive".
Or: "My cat just arrived home with a baby bunny and presented it
to me as a present".
Or: "my kids just brought a little rabbit home. What should I
do?"
Or: "I just found a nest of baby bunnies and their mother seems
to have abandoned them"
If it is over six and a half inches long from tail to nose,
re-release it where it was found - the mother is still near by.
Is It Hard To Successfully Raise A Wild Cottontail Orphan?
Baby cottontail rabbits are the most difficult of all furry
wildlife orphans to successfully raise or rehabilitate.
Wild bunnies have the same basic needs and medical problems that
domestic rabbits do. However, the conditions in which they
survive and thrive is much narrower than that of domestic
rabbits. Like all wild prey animals cottontail rabbits are very
easy to fatally overstress. They mature much faster than
domestic rabbits and when the go down hill, they do so very fast
and rarely give you time to correct the problem that caused it.
Successfully raising these bunnies is a major commitment in time
and dedication. You can’t rush it, you can’t work it into your
schedule around other commitments - like kids and work hours.
Some people seem to naturally have this nurturing talent while
others who love wildlife just as much do not. Some people are
just too giving and over-feed these babies. Those people can do
more by just offering support to others that are more successful
at it.
People who raise orphan cottontail rabbits loose them in three
ways:
The earliest, die from trauma and harsh exposure before they
were brought to rehabilitation centers. Baby bunnies do not have
reserves to fall back on when they are deprived of food, warmth
and shelter for more than a day. House cat-captured bunnies ,in
particular, often die from infections and stress.
The second group of babies die due to lack of their mother’s
protective antibodies passed on to them through natural rabbit
milk.
The third and most common cause of death is failure to establish
normal rabbit flora (bacteria) in their intestinal tract at the
time they are weaning.
Of course, a lot of other things can go wrong. I have seen
improper temperature, poorly concocted diets, over feeding, bad
sanitation and stressful environment all do in baby cottontails.
What Is The Best Way To Hand-rear Baby Cottontails
There are as many variations in raising infant cottontails as
there are people doing it and everyone naturally thinks their
way is the best. Just like the roads in your City, there are
often several fine ways to get to your destination. There are
also some roads that are bumpy, dead ends or quite dangerous.
This pertains particularly to milk formulas and feeding
schedules. I can tell you the ones that I know work well. But
that doesn’t mean there are not others.
Bunnies are very attune to the personalities of their
caregivers. They like calm, pleasant, nurturing people.
How Much Human Contact Should This Bunny Have?
That depends on where and how soon you plan to release it.
There are two conflicting processes working here. The first is
that baby bunnies are calmer, easier to feed and less stressed
when they are comfortable with the touch and presence of the
person who feeds and cares for them. Initially bunnies may seem
tame and accepting of handling when they are actually terrified
and frozen with fear. The older the baby is when it is found,
the more likely this reaction. If the baby you found is capable
of feeding itself entirely on plants, minimize your contact with
it. That way, it will be more likely to survive when you do
release it.
If it is younger, with repeated handling and caressing it will
calm down, relax and thrive. But it's trusting nature will be a
disability to its survival when you are no longer there to
protect it. I know of no easy solution for this. Bunnies that no
longer have normal fear responses need to be released in
locations where they are protected from humans, pets and
predators if they are to survive. There is an element of this
problem in all bunnies that is hand raised, but it will be worse
in those that have the most human contact. However, some bunny
rehabilitators have found that those with the most human contact
thrive the best. An alternative is to release trusting bunnies
in stages, moving them to larger and larger pens and visiting
them less and less, until their natural spookiness returns.
Harmony is important. Just as the temperament of the caregiver
is important, so are things like sunshine, bright colors,
calming background music, a gentle voice and the presence of a
few other bunnies of similar age.
At What Temperature Should I Keep The Baby ?
Buy an aquarium thermometer or chick hatchery thermometer at a
pet supply house or feed store.
The bunny’s environment should be cozily warm, but not hot. The
body temperature of adult cottontails is about 101.5 – 102.5 F.
Babies run a degree or two cooler. If room temperature is kept
at 78-80F, furred bunnies usually remain warm by just snuggling
down in their nest, particularly if there is more than one.
Smaller bunnies and chilled bunnies and bunnies maintained at
colder temperatures need supplemental heat. An ordinary heating
pad, on its lowest setting, placed under 1/3 –1/2 of the primary
box they are in should be sufficient. Too hot an environment is
as damaging as one that is too cold.
Smaller, babies without complete fur really need an incubator to
keep them at proper temperature. These can be improvised using a
low wattage light bulb. But you need to get it to a constant
temperature before the bunnies are put in it.
you know what, lemme just give you the website i found
HTML http://www.2ndchance.inf
o/bunnies.htm
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Re: baby bunny :c
By: dawnfire111 Date: May 18, 2015, 3:21 pm
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thanks for that, it helped a lot!
so the bunny is doing pretty well, i think! she loves clovers
and so far i think that's the only thing she is going to eat.
we're kinda giving her water now because the formula we made got
all goopy and crap.
we're trying to hold her less, at least i am, but she's
comfortable eating the clovers from our hands and she is just
the cutest thing ever asdgjdlsjgl
HTML http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e330/babyelegirl27/86482827-bf60-45d6-8bbd-9ba140cb41a0_zpssoaxewoz.jpg
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Re: baby bunny :c
By: black rose Date: May 18, 2015, 5:13 pm
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no problem!
and oh my gosh she/he is adorable ajhdfgklka
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Re: baby bunny :c
By: dawnfire111 Date: May 19, 2015, 11:12 am
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okay this is gonna get really sad
this morning i got her [s]just been calling her a her okay[/s] a
handful of clovers, and normally she would be clawing at the
front of the cage, but she just sat there. so i kinda just left
the food in there and hoped she'd eat later when we weren't
looking, but she didn't. when we picked her up she couldn't even
hold her head up. what i'm trying to say is, she didn't make it.
we didn't even think she was going to live through the first
night, but when she actually lived longer than we thought, i
thought there was a chance she would live long enough for us to
let her go and i got attached to her.
ugh i feel really sad and sick to my stomach even though we only
had her for a week. i'm sorry if i get depressing or whiny, i
think you guys already know i'm super emotional.
[s]i probably shouldn't have posted a picture that made things
ten times worse[/s]
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Re: baby bunny :c
By: Raven` Date: May 19, 2015, 9:07 pm
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[s]at first i was like
"babY BUNNY YIS"
and i saw the picture and i was happy but then like
the news
i
cries[/s]
Well, if you think about it, Dawny, you might've given her
(decided to use the pronoun you claimed for the bunny. it makes
me feel a hella lot more humane then just calling her "it") a
better / longer life than you would've if you just set her free,
or let her die outright. You did the right thing to try to try
and keep her alive, but, sometimes, its just not meant to be. At
least she won't have to deal with the outside world, right? What
I mean to say is that at least she died on a (assumable) full
stomach, in a warm house, with obviously nice people. That's a
lot better then being set free, only to be brutally killed and
eaten by a neighborhood cat for food (totally not referencing
the book series that this entire website started oFF WITH.)
But, yeah, Dawny. I'm proud of you, if it means anything. You
did your best and I bed the little girl was happy with all of
the clovers.
Also, at least you didn't give her a name! Her passing would be
a hella lot more depressing / saddening if you had.
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Re: baby bunny :c
By: dawnfire111 Date: May 20, 2015, 12:25 pm
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i remember the day after we got her and one of my parents didn't
want us to keep her. that we should just let her go, since we
would do that for any other bird or mouse that our cat brought
in. but we ended up keeping her anyway, and you made me realize
that even though i thought she was suffering, she would've had
it way worse outside, she'd probably very cold and sick because
it rained a lot last week. at least she passed in comfort.
so thanks for that<3 i'm sad, but i'm grateful for the time we
had her. she was really cute, and i'm hoping it makes my parents
think about getting an actual pet bunny [s]that won't literally
die on me[/s], but i doubt it. [s]my dad keeps using the excuse
that the cats are going to gang up on the rabbit and eat it, so
that's why we can't get one. but honestly, the cats didn't
really care when we had the baby bunny. xD[/s]
soMEDAY ;w;
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