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What to do with a baby rabbit?

Posted on 5/25/23 at 10:56 pm
Posted by BoogaBear
Member since Jul 2013
5540 posts
Posted on 5/25/23 at 10:56 pm
So I have a dog, his name is Boudreaux, he is better than any human I know.

Knowing his personality, he found a baby rabbit in the woods and was worried about it. So Bou did what Bou does and rescued him and brought him home in his mouth

So we have this tiny rabbit who is scared shitless, and Boudreaux who is so concerned he won't stop whining. He just wants to lay by the rabbit.

This thing is tiny, I think we should at least feed it, give it water, let it get old enough to let go but I'm not sure what a baby rabbit will eat? Bottle with regular milk? Syringe? Lettuce?

The rabbit


The tender hearted golden doodle, Boudreaux
Posted by keakar
Member since Jan 2017
29883 posts
Posted on 5/25/23 at 10:59 pm to
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What to do with a baby rabbit?


call WLF and they will pick it up and bring it to a rehabber that will raise it until it can be released back in the wild

it will die otherwise, they need special care not just milk out your fridge
Posted by Walt OReilly
Poplarville, MS
Member since Oct 2005
124255 posts
Posted on 5/25/23 at 11:03 pm to
Make a roux
Posted by Animal
Member since Dec 2017
4217 posts
Posted on 5/26/23 at 6:35 am to
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Make a roux


I clicked on this just to see how long it would take.

Second response. Not bad, but I am somehow still disappointed.
Posted by X123F45
Member since Apr 2015
27348 posts
Posted on 5/26/23 at 6:38 am to
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What to do with a baby rabbit?


Make a baby spaghetti
Posted by Sus-Scrofa
Member since Feb 2013
8122 posts
Posted on 5/26/23 at 6:56 am to
If a rabbit’s foot is lucky, a whole rabbit on your keychain has to be ten times as lucky.
Posted by WarCamEagle88
NC
Member since Feb 2018
186 posts
Posted on 5/26/23 at 8:16 am to
We had a dog that would bring home baby rabbits every spring. Depending on how young they were, we’d either give them a bottle of milk, or give them fresh clover flowers to eat. Some died, many lived to adulthood. Get one of those hampster cage water bottles too.

Giving it to the authorities may just get it killed for all you know. Might not be worth the gas for them to drive it to a rehab facility.
Posted by Richard Grayson
Bestbank
Member since Sep 2022
2149 posts
Posted on 5/26/23 at 8:16 am to
Tanden3.0 lets geaux
Posted by White Bear
Yonnygo
Member since Jul 2014
13794 posts
Posted on 5/26/23 at 8:19 am to
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What to do with a baby rabbit?
Hug him, and squeeze him, and call him George.
Posted by Grifola
Member since Aug 2017
137 posts
Posted on 5/26/23 at 8:19 am to
Boudreaux sounds freakin awesome, and you know what to do with the rabbit.
Posted by weadjust
Member since Aug 2012
15081 posts
Posted on 5/26/23 at 9:03 am to
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I'm not sure what a baby rabbit will eat?


Posted by Tigah D
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2008
1407 posts
Posted on 5/26/23 at 9:20 am to
Finest sauce piquant I ever had was rabbit; can only imagine a tender lil baby bunny being even better.

Either way, props to you and your hound for being compassionate.
Posted by TigerDeacon
West Monroe, LA
Member since Sep 2003
29268 posts
Posted on 5/26/23 at 9:47 am to
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call WLF and they will pick it up and bring it to a rehabber that will raise it until it can be released back in the wild


You think they have the money to worry about a single baby rabbit?
Posted by BRich
Old Metairie
Member since Aug 2017
2204 posts
Posted on 5/26/23 at 9:59 am to
Just be careful when and where you let it go...
LINK
Posted by caro81
Member since Jul 2017
4860 posts
Posted on 5/26/23 at 10:05 am to
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call WLF and they will pick it up and bring it to a rehabber that will raise it until it can be released back in the wild


baby rabbits are hard to raise. get it to a rehab person asap. you can probably google wild life rehab for your area and contact em directly. will be faster than calling WLF who frankly may not care.
This post was edited on 5/26/23 at 10:09 am
Posted by SOLA
There
Member since Mar 2014
3311 posts
Posted on 5/26/23 at 10:53 am to
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baby rabbits are hard to raise. get it to a rehab person asap. you can probably google wild life rehab for your area and contact em directly. will be faster than calling WLF who frankly may not care.

Yes, rabbits are like the only animal that can stress themselves to death.
Posted by 9rocket
Member since Sep 2020
1200 posts
Posted on 5/26/23 at 11:18 am to
I would include sheep, young lambs especially.
Posted by SOLA
There
Member since Mar 2014
3311 posts
Posted on 5/26/23 at 12:41 pm to
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I would include sheep, young lambs especially.


Yikes
Posted by White Bear
Yonnygo
Member since Jul 2014
13794 posts
Posted on 5/26/23 at 12:52 pm to
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I would include sheep, young lambs especially.
Aggie board.
Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora, Georgia
Member since Sep 2012
63860 posts
Posted on 5/26/23 at 1:01 pm to
Thread here from April-

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Spoiler alert.... it's gonna die.
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