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| Baby Wild Rabbit Story |
| The young bunnies playing in the garden. They used to run around the living room , hopping and jumping, such happy little buns, we called them Rocky, Sandy,Weedy, and shelly, as they were found on the beach |
| Baby bunnies sleeping in a shoe box, you can see, they are very small with their eyes closed |
| Everyday I said it will soon be time for the young bunnies to be set free, and I would wait another day |
| My son with one of the bunnies, they had been living free for a week. my son is now grown up. |
| two weeks after setting free, on the beach where they were found, you have to walk over a rail track to get to this beach, very few people visited, so an ideal safe place for buns. |
| Feeding and looking after these very young buns was no easy task, and a friend who knew a bit about rabbits said, "dont bother, they will all die", and I did think at the time he might be right. In the wild these bunnies would have been fed just once a day with their mother, but i used to feed them three times a day, because they did nt seem to drink enough, I just was' nt like their mum, and being so small, it was hard to get the milk down them, i remember trying to make a very small teat with a balloon , and later using a bottle and teat for baby kittens,they need very rich milk, i used tinned carnation here in the uk, I kept them wrapped up in cotten wool and part of a wooly jumper in a shoe box. because there was four of them, they kept each other warm, but if there was only one bun, i would have to have some sort of heating, for young animals ,i have used an old table lamp with a ten watt bulb in, if you put your hand on it, its warm, and it wont burn. I once had some young quail, and they used to sleep on the ten watt bulb |
| I get a lot of people who find young rabbits, and need help , as they dont know how to feed or look after them, if you have a wildlife centre near who will look after small animals, that would be the best place to take them, they are not easy to look after, and like the friend who once told me the babywild rabbits would never live, in most cases , he is more than likely right |
| The young lady on the right who is a family friend was with us the day we found the buns, and she oftain brought her school friends over to help feed these four baby rabbits. |
| These baby wild rabbits were found in a collapsed sandune, they were cold and dead, and if I had'nt noticed a slight movement in one of them, they would have all died, we started rubbing and warming the rabbits, and after ten minutes three were back with the living, but I had been working with the last one for half an hour with no sign of life, and as my young son was playing up, saying he had nt got a rabbit, I gave it to him, and after he had run around with it for a while, he said mine s moving now, and i was laughing until my friend said, I think he s right , it is moving, I had a look , and sure enough , one little foot moved, so my son had to give his bun up!. We took these very young bunnies home wrapped in a jumper, they still had their eyes closed. i gave them some cows milk, it was hard feeding them as most would fall out .. I put them in a shoe box wrapped in cotten wool and part of an old jumper to keep them warm for the night, and I did nt expect to find them alive in the morning, but they were all fine, except for some dust that was all over the cotten wool, I had a few day s of this dust, before I found it was their little tiny bunny poops!. but they were looking very thin, so went down to the library to read up on baby buns, found they needed very rich milk, so bought them tinned carnation milk, and they soon started to put on weight, and as time went on, they started hopping around the living room, and when it was feeding time they would all hop on my knee , and line up in a row, and wait as each one was fed, they were beautiful. |
| I hav'nt finished this story of these wild bunnies which happened over twenty years ago, but you can read and enjoy what I have already done. Pauline |
| A lady who had a farm near the beach, got to know these bunnies, and used to bring them treats down to the beach everyday, and we used to go and see them everyother night with some food, and then everyweek, and one by one they moved on, and had families of their own. |