I know these sounds like an unusual posting. But a breeder I know had all her baby buns killed by a water rat last week. The kits had fur and where out of the nest. I have had this myself before where I went into the shed one morning to find one of the babies killed. Thinking it might have been the mother I separated mother and babies (as kits where eating solids) for one night. The next morning I went down again to find two more had been killed. Getting more upset I searched the hutch to discover a big hole at the back where the rat had chewed its way in. It looked like the rat had gotten into the rabbit house somehow and chewed its way into the cage. We called a pest pro in to make sure that the rat had gone and he said it could have been a water rat – as they are known to kill small pet animals including rabbits. We knocked down the whole shed so we could rebuild it again making it rat proof.
Have any of you experienced this?
Have any of you experienced this?
