And now he's brought a lovely baby wild rabbit into the house (yea, doggie door) and I'm not sure what to do.
I took it from him, no big wounds visible, and it's spending the night in a box on a soft towel with a little dish of water in the corner. No idea what should be next. Or if it'll die anyway.
If I just release it in the yard, he'll probably hunt it down again. The odd thing is that I genuinely wondered if he's just happy to have found a creature "friend." If he really wanted to kill it, he could have. And raising a rabbit as a pet is appealing (if not rational) to me. I was happy to think this might be the same larger one he'd grabbed earlier, when I discovered the nest of babies. I checked this morning in the perennial bed and saw no more babies. I dunno what mama rabbits do in such a case -- do they spend time moving their babies elsewhere? Or just abandon the nest? I left Pup locked out of that area for several days, and now they're gone....
Any experience here? Last time, when he wounded one, I took it a very long way over the mountain to a wildlife center, but they never responded to my followup query about what happened to it. So I'm a little reluctant to make the same pilgrimage again.
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