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Baby Bunny Rescue

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wynne1975

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hi

We've just rescued a baby bunny. It's about 6-8" long and can sit on my flat hand. It can also climb out of the cage which is about 9" high. We're guessing it's 4-5 weeks old but this is an estimate based on the size of our other rabbits when they were 10 weeks old.

We're taking it to the vet tomorrow for a check up and the pet shop suggested feeding it a kitten milk formula, 3 times a day for a few weeks. There's plenty of hay and water in the carry cage we have it in and a small amount of Selective rabbit food.

It's had a couple of feeds of the milk formula and lapped it up. We read on here that straight from the syringe can be dangerous so I was squirting really slowly into the palm of my hand for it to lick up. This seemed to go down much better than from the syringe.

We won't be introducing her to the other rabbits for a good few months yet, if at all.

Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. It's smokey grey coloured with 1 white front paw, so we're open to suggestions on names too :)

many thanks

Craig and Sam
 
It was in a street in Dartmouth, a few miles from where we live. It must have escaped from a garden or something. No-one knew who the owner was so rather than leave it to fend for itself we took it home. It's the sweetest little thing!

Craig and Sam
 
Most people will recommend goats milk instead of kittens as it's easier on the system, but if it's fine on the kitten milk I wouldn't change it now.
 
Yeah, we're in torbay too. we've taken him to the vets. He's around 8 weeks ols and now on a bluberry warren mix of hay and pellet. I tried him on a small piece of apple yesterday, and today he has a orangey/red coloured wee. Could this be the apple? he seems ok in himself, he's eating and playing, although we think he may be drinking quite a lot.
 
Names

Awww 2 sweet, I don't particularly like him but what about jackson, didn't Michael jackson wear 1 white glove?? Or boots, or sox?
 
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