This is Peter, or as Cassidy calls him Petey. A few days ago Sammy (our dog) found a cottontail bunny nest and decided to bring a few bunnies into the house. He killed four of the seven bunnies. Not intentionally we think, when you disturb baby bunnies they go into shock easily and die. Well we thought Petey was dead. My father in law went out to gather the poor bunnies and Petey screamed and if you have never heard a newborn bunny scream they are loud and high pitched squeelers. Scared the poo out of us! But we took the poor little guy in and got him into a box on top of a heating pad.
The next morning Sammy brought another baby bunny to the back door. This one was also alive. So we put him with his brother and then Cassidy and I took them to the Willowbrooke Wildlife Center. We're hoping they made it. Well, little did we know that at three in the morning (after we brought Petey and his brother in) Sammy had managed to bring in another bunny. Sammy had been by our bedroom door all day and I finally asked Sammy what he was doing. Mind you this was after we brought the other bunnies to the center. Well, we moved the shelf and low and behold there was another baby bunny!!!! This one had it's eyes open but was the same size. So we figure Sammy brought this one upstairs and dropped it at 3am and the baby bunny ran and hid under and behind our shelf. So we got him and put him in another box and brought him to the Wildlife Center after lunch. I really wished we could have kept them but it's against the law and I didn't know how to take care of newborn bunnies. We couldn't put them back outside since the nest was destroyed and some of them had been hurt. That was our Tuesday and Wednesday adventures. We're just hoping another bunny doesn't have their babies in the yard and Sammy does not bring them into the house!
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