WARNING: CUTENESS AHEAD!!!
- Category: Animals & Pets
- Posted On: 5/8/2006
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New Desert Bunnies
A couple of baby, desert bunnies came into our lives last night at the end of a perfect weekend celebration that my wife and I spent in Sedona, Arizona for our 3rd anniversary. My wife has cared for bunnies in the past and volunteered to take in the two orphans when a couple at a local Blockbuster passed by with the cute pair in a make-shift baby bunny carrier from a donated cardboard movie box.
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Baby Bunny Movies
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People! Leave Nature Alone!
These 2 bunnies belong in the wild with their mother, so why are they with us? Well, the good samaritan couple thought that they would save the two baby bunnies from certain death in a busy parking lot. As caring as this might sound, when I pulled up, I had to stomp on the brakes while an adult bunny bounded in front of my car. Was this bunny, who was running away from the couple, the mother? Perhaps... it's very likely... Will we ever know? No. I walked around the edges of the parking lot to search for signs of watchful parents, bunny homes, and possibly other babies and I found none. Since the babies had already been handled and the only possible parent had hopped off, our concern was that any decision made was in the best interest of the babies futures.
Personally, if I had found the babies without parents nearby, I would have simply watched from a distance and directed any traffic around them until they got to safety, removing any human effects on their lives and letting nature continue normally for better or worse. I'm certainly no rabbit expert to know if mom and dad take off once in a while or not. But, the babies were picked up and placed in a device before my wife and I had even met them. So, we did what we thought best and offered to take the babies and care for them. Fortunately, the other couple saw that we might be better parents and handed them into our care. My wife scurried over to Safeway for supplies and we took them home.
The lesson I hope we all learn is that life for animals is not always the same as it is for humans. Certainly we should attempt to reduce any negative human impact on our environment, but we should not automatically and naïvely assume that babies have been abandoned, especially when we are not recognizing that the desire to help may only be a simple desire to handle the cute cuddlies in the first place.
"Black Dot" Bunny
- Category: Animals & Pets
- Posted On: 5/8/2006
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Comments
- From Maria Grimmelmann located in Anthem, AZ
- On 5/14/2006
We are the proud parents of our bunny who will be 10 years old in October. He belongs to the House Rabbit Society and is house broken.
They have a wonderful website that is provides sage advice on how to care for them : )