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Wife's coworker saved this baby cottontail from a cat. (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago by Geodad@lemm.ee to c/aww@lemmy.world

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[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

carrots are packed with sugar and not a good food source for rabbits, please tell them to get the rabbit to a vet or rescue center quickly.

[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just a note that cats carry all sorts of nasty diseases, and even if they don't manage to kill their prey immediately they usually die of infection shortly after.

[+] Geodad@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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[–] ChaosCoati@midwest.social 11 points 3 months ago

Per the Minnesota Wildlife Rehab Center, if she’s certain the cat never got it:

if it's a bunny that is larger than a tennis ball, and its ears are upright, it's old enough to be on its own

Best option is to release it back where she found it and keep an eye on it if she’s worried about the cat again.

Also if she has some greens like arugula, clover, basil, cilantro, or any lettuce except iceberg available those will sit better in the bunny’s tummy than carrots which have too much sugar.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm new to rehabbing this season, but when they showed us the baby rabbit room on our tour, they said the door is only opened twice and day and you're not supposed to talk in there because babies rabbits are very susceptible to dying from stress.

This rabbit looks bigger than most of the ones in there, but if they want it to have the best chances of living and not getting too tame and unable to survive in the wild, it should go to a rehab ASAP.

[+] Geodad@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I deleted my reply after I saw that comment, but since you replied, I undeleted it.

Even adult animals shouldn't just be released wherever. We had someone last weekend want to bring in a fox, but they didn't really want it to get released back to their property since they have chickens. They told the person it's not like you can just toss an animal wherever. They have families, some species don't do well alone, and if you drop them someplace different than where they're from it's not like they magically know where food, water, or shelter are to be found. How well would any of us do dropped in a random place we've never been with none of our stuff?

Rehabbers don't charge you if you bring them an animal. You can even text them a pic and they can say bring it in or they'll come get it or just put it back where you found it. If we came upon a human in distress we wouldn't try to treat them or diagnose them on our own (hopefully!) so why do so many want to do that to a random animal?

It's good you at least tried to talk some sense into them! Animals are fragile in some ways, but still amazingly strong and adaptable at the same time. Good luck, little bun!

[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If she was really sure it wasn't injured then it seems like it should just be released. Wild animals rarely make good pets.

[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago

Bun!