Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board
Voicelessness and Emotional Survival => Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board => Topic started by: Hopalong on May 31, 2025, 12:38:50 PM
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Poor Pup was really traumatized just now and shook hard for about 30 minutes. I'd forgotten a pan of boiling eggs, which then exploded, blowing the lid across the kitchen and pieces of burned egg everywhere.
Found him in the LR by the front door, shaking like a leaf. I hope it won't have permanent effects.
I'm starting to worry about memory lapses. If I'd set a timer it would've spared us both but I forgot to do that too!
hugs
Hops
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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.
hugs
Hops
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No idea about the bunny Hops, but I would find someplace to release bun-bun outside with a chance of making it. Park? farm field? Somewhere with softish dirt? My spot is too rocky for bunnies to feel at home - but just down the hollar, Hol has the occasional bunny.
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Oh my goodness, Hops. You gotta save that bun!
My niece loves her pet bunnies...she has 2 now. Maybe you, and pup, can make it an outdoor pet, while feeding and nurturing, until/if the mom comes for it?
Not sure, but good luck.
Lighter