Baby rabbit on the road

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Driving to the forest to walk the mutts and i saw a baby rabbit crawling across the road, so had to stop and pick it up. Poor thing has a big gash on the shoulder and a mark on the bum, and was clearly lifted by a buzzard. I got out and walked to it and it turned and ran towards me   brought it home and have put it in a cat carrier in a santa hat with some food and water, if its even old enough to have that. Called the wildlife centre but its closed now!

Don't think it will survive but keep fingers crossed for the little mite.

Weight before feeding was 132 an 136 after. Not happy about this! Can't add more feeds or he will bloat might need to try and encourage him to drink milk from the bowl when he fancies.

I do think a vet trip is a good idea. 136g is quite a heavy weight for a young rabbit. At roughly 120g, rabbits are ready to go out on their own and find their own food. Could be that the little guy has worms, which might be adding on those extra grams.

Bunny in with vet who seems really nice. Didn't ask too many qu lol

Going to try and clip the hair back and see what's really there cause my own clippers aren't small enough. Soon as the vet picked up it did a huuuuuuuge pee lol but it's very calm and nose is twitching.

Glad the vet's okay with him! Hopefully will be able to tell you whether or not the little guy is a little guy or a little girl!

Oh it may interest you to know it's the sexy as all hell vet lol

Ask for his home number, in case you need to phone for an emergency!

Have found another injury that I couldn't get to. Was a pocket of puss that's now dried and he said he honestly doesn't know how it's survived. Wanted to keep it in but they have no milk and don't know the routine etc so I have to come back every day to get the wounds flushed and antibs. This will be costly >_<;;

That's a relief for you that the vet was ok with him
The vet being surprised that he's survived shows what a good job you've been doing with him and I agree with Eleanor, get his number

Hayley wrote:Oh it may interest you to know it's the sexy as all hell vet lol

Definitely ask for his home number!  

Hayley wrote:This will be costly >_<;;

Won't they treat it free as it's wild?

Cost me £26, so not too bad. Sold a pair of sunglasses for that so its basically free :p

If i came out and said "its wild so do it free" they would have put him down without a doubt. The injuries are very bad and they wouldn't stress a wild rabbit that way. But he is so tame now, he just sat in the vets hand preening and cleaning and licking. I think the vet was quite taken lol

It may be wrong of me to be keeping him alive if he is wild, but he has fought so hard i think he deserves a chance.

Hayley wrote:Have found another injury that I couldn't get to. Was a pocket of puss that's now dried and he said he honestly doesn't know how it's survived. Wanted to keep it in but they have no milk and don't know the routine etc so I have to come back every day to get the wounds flushed and antibs. This will be costly >_<;;

Poor little thing! At least you know he's a little fighter!

Caroline wrote:That's a relief for you that the vet was ok with him
The vet being surprised that he's survived shows what a good job you've been doing with him and I agree with Eleanor, get his number

Agreed! You've done a fantastic job!

Hayley wrote:Cost me £26, so not too bad. Sold a pair of sunglasses for that so its basically free :p

If i came out and said "its wild so do it free" they would have put him down without a doubt. The injuries are very bad and they wouldn't stress a wild rabbit that way. But he is so tame now, he just sat in the vets hand preening and cleaning and licking. I think the vet was quite taken lol

Probably for the best then, if it means they'll treat him! Could be worse! Did you manage to find out the gender for sure?

No, didn't bother. I think it may be a girl but it is just Bunny until it is all healed and doing well lol until then it really doesn't matter cause i don't want to know cause if i know i will pick a name.

Sounds like a good idea!

Awww well done for helping the baby!!! I hand reared a litter of 5 wild bunnies once that got dug up accidentally. It was a very tiring time having to do night feeds too, and wiping their little bottoms with warm moist cotton wool to make them go to the loo! It's a lot of hard work, but definitely worth the effort! Well done! xxx

Hayley, you are doing a brilliant job with Bunny, and I'm sure your vet recognises this.

Getting a little peed off at a so called expert (on another forum). Nothing i do is right, the formula isn't the right one, the food isn't the best food, i should not be putting healing cream on, they told me it would need anti-b. End of the day this is a wild bunny i'm taking care of out of the goodness of my heart, i have other animals i have to care for and i got the stuff i could at the time!   

Tell them to stop being an inconsiderate pig. Like you said, you've rescued a wild rabbit - this wasn't planned. When something like this happens, you make do with what you've got.

But maybe saving this little rabbit's life just isn't enough! You have to perform miracles as well, Hayley!

Well obvioulsy!

Think some people just like to tell others they are wrong to make themselves feel better.

Sadly, yes! Some people let knowledge go to their head (excuse the pun) and think themselves better than others.

Hayley - a week on and Bunny is still in this world. What's more, he/she is thriving, happy, gaining weight (?), and the wounds are healing. Correct?

Plus you have the help of your dishy vet.

If all of the above is true, then you are doing a great job. What would your "expert" have you do?

Will get the vet to teach me how to flush out the wounds so i can do it more often. I'm just worried about bun getting stressed from getting wet but he seemed to handle getting dried with the hair dryer okay. Wonder how long injuries like that take to heal up

omg i thought i had had it for three days! thats insane!

Exactly what Lynda said!

Well, he's wild, so the wet shouldn't bother him too much! I daresay he'll heal quite quickly as well!

Time flies!

Bunny ate some pear



And here he is in the feeding box. Gonna try putting him in there inbetween milking times. Hes currently munching away on something, possibly cow parsley!