Yesterday I got a call from the barn for "help"!! "There are rabbits everywhere". I went running to the barn after I grabbed my camera and sure enough we now know that we have one mama rabbit and two daddy rabbits. The mama rabbit had given birth to seven babies who were scattered all over the place. We gathered them up and put them with the mama in the cat carrier. I tried to feed them to get them started and put the fur that she had pulled in the carrier. I kept putting them under her and I think she's accepted them. The tiniest one died and I buried it in the flower bed. It's hard not to bottle feed them but she needs to accept responsibility for her children. They seem to be doing ok.
I don't know that we have even named the rabbits because we didn't know what they were. Here is the mama rabbit.
You can't see all seven of them [now there are six] but they are there. I hope they make it cause they really are cute. And I plan to share with Jeanne cause she's the one who gave them to me!!
Update on baby rabbits: Jeanne, you're safe. I'm sorry to report that all of the babies have gone to rabbit heaven. I gave them a Catholic funeral after choir practice tonight. The mama is doing fine and back with the two other rabbits. You know what that means! :)
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