Yesterday Julia came in the house followed by Holly and the neighbor friend, cradling a baby bunny. Can we keep it? No. No wild animal pets here. Especially ones that can't move their legs.
Apparently the baby bunny limped up to them - to the neighbor friend more specifically. Why, then I asked, did they not take the injured baby bunny to her house? They did. But the parents didn't come.
I'm not sure I have anything nice to say about that.
So I called the vet, got a number for an animal rescue, called the rescue - no answer. So I called our neighbor with a pet bunny and a love of nature and asked her advice on her answering machine. Then I sent the girls down the street with the bunny in case they were just outside and away from the phone. She happened to have a cardboard animal carrying box they got from the animal shelter when they adopted some other kind of small animal and let us borrow it along with an old towel and a dropper to try to get water into it.
This morning it was still alive, but not moving much at all. Slight movement of its head was about all it would do. I think the hind legs are paralyzed - although it did pee on Holly this morning which caused a whole new drama as we had to rinse and dry the red shirt she has to wear on Wednesdays to school. Turns out that the neighbor friend also dropped the baby bunny yesterday before they brought it home. Oops. So Oliver has .... taken it to the wild animal rescue?
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