One of our neighbor’s once kept free-range rabbits. She fed them and gave them a house, but they just sort of wandered around.
One day, I found one huddled under my car just before I left for work. I had no trouble picking it up, and it didn’t seem right so I took it to a vet who diagnosed a compaction, cleared her out, and we took her home with us a couple days later. We adopted her and kept her indoors after that; she wasn’t young (the neighbor didn’t care; she wasn’t eating them or anything, she just like rabbits).
I have a couple of points here:
Vet said rabbits aren’t very robust, and it was likely she’d have just died by the next day if we hadn’t brought her in
Her being mostly domesticated helped me get ahold of her, probably contributing to her surviving that episode.
I don’t know if there’s a moral. Except maybe that sometimes if they let you get close it’s because they’re too sick to flee.
One of our neighbor’s once kept free-range rabbits. She fed them and gave them a house, but they just sort of wandered around.
One day, I found one huddled under my car just before I left for work. I had no trouble picking it up, and it didn’t seem right so I took it to a vet who diagnosed a compaction, cleared her out, and we took her home with us a couple days later. We adopted her and kept her indoors after that; she wasn’t young (the neighbor didn’t care; she wasn’t eating them or anything, she just like rabbits).
I have a couple of points here:
I don’t know if there’s a moral. Except maybe that sometimes if they let you get close it’s because they’re too sick to flee.