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Can you get ginger wildies....? UD p27 still there

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I saw a bunny today, 6-8 weeks old roughly, whilst on my run, it was near an area where I regularly see wildies, but it was ginger, and by itself, about a metre away from me on the side of a road, I walked towards it and it ran off away from the road into a hedge, but I'm really worried for it, what if it's not a wildie...? :(
 
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Hm, I would be thinking maybe a domestic x wildie? I would go back and double check that it isn't a domestic rabbit. Ginger is not generally a colour that would pop up without a domestic influence.
 
Never seen or heard of a ginger wildie....

I'd see if you can trap it if you can. Maybe a rescue could help? Especially as it is by a road...
 
Vegan_Bunny said:
Hm, I would be thinking maybe a domestic x wildie? I would go back and double check that it isn't a domestic rabbit. Ginger is not generally a colour that would pop up without a domestic influence.
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nessar said:
Never seen or heard of a ginger wildie....

I'd see if you can trap it if you can. Maybe a rescue could help? Especially as it is by a road...
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I might try to go back, the only problem is I don't have a car, and it's 2 miles away, so a long walk plus if I did catch it walking back 2 miles with a wriggly baby bunny is going to be a challenge!! Would a rescue actually help for a queried domestic rabbit that might be wildie or wildie-cross? I do think it was domestic, just because a wildie wouldn't have been a metre away from me?! Grr if I had a car I'd be straight back, even though it may have run off into the forest area by now.... :(
 
nessar said:
Did a search and this thread came up... rather irrelevant but in it Sky-O states that wildie crosses always look like wildies.
http://forums.rabbitrehome.org.uk/showthread.php?304254-Wild-rabbit-x-Domestic-rabbit

So I'm gonna say that this little bun is most likely pure domestic.

If you go, take a box with something soft in it, to bring the bun back in.
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Ok, I'll have to go back, but not going to be able to get there for a while :/ if anyone else is in the Coventry area and happens to be going past the University of Warwick, I saw it on the round-a-bout on Gibbet Hill Road, the round-a-bout with a car park exit on one side and the road up to the cricket club on the other side. I'll try get a google maps picture just in case anyone happens to be near-by
 
Could you get someone to go with you?? You'll be more likely to catch it and could help prevent it running into the road :(
 
On the way there now, it's about a 30min walk, I'm not very hopeful but I might as well try, I'll let you know how it goes
 
No squished bunny on the road, that's good at least, but no sign of him anywhere else :( I'm not sure really how to go about looking tbh.... Any suggestions?
 
Just spoke to some local removal men and they says that a couple of fields over there's a whole field full of wild ginger rabbits :/ don't know what to think..... Can't see or hear it anywhere :/
 
Do their coats get lighter in the summer? If it is a wild rabbit then maybe you just startled it when you were running, then when you stopped to look it ran away
 
I just did a google search and found some other people who have seen ginger wild rabbits. The site I found was a 'country sports' forum so hunters and ferreters. There was a photograph of a wild rabbit but I wouldn't l like to share it here. It was ginger though and looked like a wildie.
 
Jenova said:
I just did a google search and found some other people who have seen ginger wild rabbits. The site I found was a 'country sports' forum so hunters and ferreters. There was a photograph of a wild rabbit but I wouldn't l like to share it here. It was ginger though and looked like a wildie.
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That's a bit reassuring, the guy I spoke to was adamant he'd seen properly ginger rabbits in a local field so it probably was from there and had got lost, I hope it makes it way back! Maybe that's where it had gone to! I've come back home now as he/she was nowhere to be seen :( could've still been there though as there was lots of overgrown bushes
 
theres black ones and odd one with lop ears near a friend of mines. all wild- all presumably descended from some domestic that got loose.
 
Could it be ginger domestics been released and bred so there's lots of them now? We have a 'colony' of black wild rabbits at the beach here.
 
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