This evening we were at the nature preserve taking a walk and notice a black and white bunny in the brush, and didn't think much of it. Then it slowly surfaced that there aren't many black and white floppy ear bunnies in the wild around here. Skip walked over and tried to get the rabbit to come out of the brush, but he wouldn't come. Another lady showed up and tried also. It was now apparent that some apathetic cold-hearted person dropped off a pet rabbit in the woods. Skip and the lady went into the brush and tried several times to catch him. They got within a foot, and could pet the rabbit, but as soon as they tried to pick him up the rabbit bolted. They finally caught the rabbit by throwing the lady's fleece jacket over him then picking up the jacket (while this was going on a wild white tail rabbit ran by). Zoe was having fun watching this as well.
It turns out the lady works for the nations largest no-kill shelter,
Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, and she knows a vet who specialized in rehabilitating rabbits (Wow, talk about running into the right person!). She had 2 dogs in her car, so we took the rabbit to her house. Nikki sat in the back seat holding the rabbit (he peed and pooped on her). We got to the lady's house and she had a cage and some food.
We didn't have a camera with us but he looked like the photo we've included.
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