Summer&Skye
Mama Doe
Last week I walked down my street (rarely do without dogs but was on way to pick car up from garage!) and I saw a little black rabbit sat on someone's front steps. I tried to catch it but it ran off. I knocked on the door of the house but no answer. I posted on a local page on Facebook and a couple of people on the street commented saying they'd seen it too and tried to catch it, it had been out for about a week. It does belong to one of the houses and apparently it goes back at night. Well that seems odd since rabbits are most active at night! I've seen it since when walking dogs both late night and early morning. I've seen it pretty much every time I've walked down street with dogs but obviously it runs away. It's been out in the pouring rain, although it doesn't seem fazed at all! I'm obviously worried that it's going to either get run over (although it does seem to stay away from the road - it's a cul de sac so not a busy road and large grassed area running alongside rd) or it will get caught by a dog/fox/cat?! It doesn't run straight away, I can get quite close even with the dogs and my dog spotted it and tried to chase it the other night, luckily he was on the lead but if he hadn't been I'm not sure the rabbit would have been quick enough! Although my dogs are obviously used to rabbits and I'm not sure they'd harm one really but dogs are dogs at the end of the day! The issue I'm having though is people know who the rabbit belongs to, if I did manage to catch it, I'd have to hand it back to them when they obviously haven't provided a secure enclosure for it, I'm presuming it lives alone or else there'd be two escapees, or surely they'd do more to get it back... I'm also worried about the kind of accommodation it will have, it would seem so mean to take it from this new found freedom for it to get shut into a hutch alone but of course it's not safe and the weather is only going to get worse. I don't really know what to do or whether to do anything? Help!!