So I didn't know this, but I looked it up. Young rabbits disperse from the nest at 15-20 days old. By three weeks of age, they are on their own in the wild and no longer require a mother's care.
That’s exactly how I got my first bunny Hoppy !!! It was a bunny even maybe a week younger in the road !!! I gave it milk for about a week and then it could eat grass and soon it was release back to nature 💕🌸🐰
Baby rabbits are so vulnerable. My cat caught one and tried to eat him, but our dog saved its life. We took him to the vet, got him stitched up and got him some meds, and we decided to rehab him ourselves, because the local rehab was way over capacity. He was fine during that time, just hanging out in a big 50 gallon tote with hay and a small box to hide in. We fed him veggies, gave him fresh water every day, and tried not to handle him too much. Then after a few weeks the stitches came out and he was a lot more active, and after another month we went to release him. But he kept coming back, over and over again, so we tried a couple days later, but he still wouldn't go. He would take a few hops, look around, then run back and sit on my foot. Then we tried a 3rd time, and the same thing, only this time we walked away, but he ran after us. Not sure what to do, we named him Stitches decided to just keep him. That was 3 years ago, and he's still with us.
Most of these videos I've seen people handle wild rabbits they keep holding them up in the position that shows their bellies when they've been told time and again that they're not supposed to do that because it puts them in so much distress. You have a first person I've seen that handled the bunny with so much care. Thank you very much😊
I’m guessing it did almost get run over and it was probably panicking pretty bad. Rabbits are prey animals their instincts are 99% flight and maybe 1% fight. A common occurrence even with domesticated rabbits is they get frightened and die of heart attacks. The fact that it wasn’t gone immediately is a strong indicator that it was out of it. The fact that it was grooming itself though is a good sign that it was comfortable with you.
@@sincerely-b The OP seems to think that fight or flight are the only two instincts, but for smaller prey animals, like you’ve been noticing, freeze is a response that is way more utilized. A baby would have no way of outrunning a bigger predator, therefore hiding by freezing up is mostly the only choice.
@@b.g.3400 Unless you’re talking about how there was only the one girl (in which case, my bad), just appreciate the joke for what it is and keep your religious shit to yourself
Their mom was probably not far off, they leave their young to gather food, any animal this young is better off with their own mother. Only pick up baby animals if you can be sure they’re abandoned (been in the same spot for 12+ hrs with no sign of mom, extremely dehydrated/starving or injured). Human interference should be an absolute last resort. This bunny looks likes it’s being well cared for and her placing it away from the road is the best thing she could’ve done.
@@sarahg2665 you’re right, but considering it didn’t run or protest much when picked up, it’s likely something was wrong. I’d have taken it in this situation.
@@hybridanimus6412It was actually sleeping. Not in a state of shock either. Unfortunately it does appear to have bad danger instincts though, so will be a snack soon enough.
So I was waiting for hours and someone finally helped me….or so I thought! She teased me with pets, a snuggle and put me back to die. This world is messed up
It wouldn't be wise to take it back. The mother would come back for it eventually. All this woman did was pet it and cuddle with it because it's cute, then hid it in some bushes to be safe.
My intrusive thoughts would never let me get Outta that place after placing the bunny near the road, there'll be so many 'what ifs' and i would have just brought it home lol
Yes that was the plan…unfortunately it’s ilegal to keep a wild rabbit. Also my family did not want me being the wild one because they carry many diseases. They were so against it smh
@zivajames2494 She didn’t saved it it’s going to die bc the human smell is now on it and the mother will abuse it.. it’s practically going to die bc of her
Unfortunately prey birds usually injure or kill them with their claws when picking them up. Sometimes not though. I have so many right in my backyard & hate watching them. One dropped a dead rat on my deck a couple of days ago so they don't like me either. Disgusting!
Wild bunnies are extremely hard to take care of tho, it's not like domestic ones. They can't even pee without help if I remember right and can die really easily. Even domestic ones, lot of people take them without knowing this and unfortunately kill them.
@@Ilivedbih hmmm🤔 maybe wild bunnies ARE difficult to care for. I've had bunnies since the age of 4, i love them so much, my recent one is going to be four years old, i give her supplements & everything else needed for her to last as much as she can 🥰.
I was thinking the same thing lol. I have a bunch of rabbits in my yard. My kids named him bread, he's brown and white, then he meet a lady her name is toast, light brown, then a little while down the road they had babies, piece of toast, crumb, and burnt toast lmfao. I hope there still on my property come spring.
@@Darbocky 'literally petrified' It's a play on words. I have no clue how a bunny's body language works, I just knew that he was completely still, and that's what I said
Nope, that's just how rabbits are, they freeze upon seeing danger, its a thing babies do alot, and adults will do it 50% of the time, wild rabbits do it more than domestic ones due to domestic ones (while still worrying) are more lax, also their bright coats arent good camo vs wild ones
@@sesserose25 yes I'm very well aware And i can, I already did lmao, its just communicating on the internet, as long as it's legible and doesnt give anyone a headache its fine I do put periods when doing school stuff, its just less effort here to press comma
@@gneepgnarp but its a baby bunny on its own, if its mother isn't around with him there IS no eventually, baby bunnies already die alot even with their mother
@@mjrussell414 That may be true, but there isn't something right with that bunny, it wasn't moving at all and looked almost too calm, she could at least find out what was wrong or take him to the vet
@@ihatemeww to grant it freedom If you do your reaserch, the rabbit example in the video was a juvinile and was able to leave its nest, meaning it doesn't need the assist of its mother if she brought it home it wouldve definetly interferred with the development of a naturally wild animal The same can Be said for other examples Letting go of something you love can be applied to certain contexts but not all
It's good that u didn't bring that cutie to ur home. Once when i was in my school ,i found a wounded pigeon .so i decided to take care of it . (I was famous in my class for handling and taking care of the injured or lost animals in our school,😂 either it is a squirrel,bat,pigeon. Also students would call me to handle them). So I took that pigeon, hide it in the topmost floor of our school as it was no more in use. I came back home and told this to my mother and said that i would bri g that pigeon to home and take care of him. But she denied it saying that u might separate it from it's family.take care of it . From then i took pigeon's food with me everyday, fed it, help it to fly again 😃
Most wild baby buns hide and don't move. I have a lot around my house. Have to move baby buns to a box each time I mow the lawn. Always make sure to put them right back where you found them or close by. Once they reach a few weeks to a month they will start to run away.
That’s what I’m saying, she should’ve took it with her instead of leaving it back out in the wild where there’s a high chance of the bunny getting eaten by a coyote or something
@@Richard-uz9yr it's nature, wild life, if it gets eaten that's sad but it's the cycle, she doesn't have to take it either and she safely put it off the road, idk what y'all want
I see baby birds all the time. I ride a bike (silently) and I know where the nests and roosts and dens are in my area. You too can be a wildlife rescuer ❤❤❤
I once found a very sick pigeon, maybe just old, i brought him in some place and left a little warm thing, water and bread, next day i come back he was dead, i was somewhere 9-10 years old and that was quite shocking at this age for me
@@dustsans9859 awww at least pidgey was warm and safe when he died. I just found a tiny nestling miner bird. 2 others dead on the ground. I stopped to take them off the road and heard a peep, and this lil guy was on the other side of the tree. I brought him home as the weather is ugly and floods are predicted tomorrow. On my way to get baby food for him now. My springtime baby bird rescue has begun anew for the year! Fingers crossed this one makes it, but my Parrot is going to be very jealous!
@@MQBTSarmyandStay5212 I had two bunnies, Easterbunny (a boy) and Honeybunny, (a girl). Both, have past on to bunny heaven, but not before we had a few good years being best buds. ; ) : )
He was incredibly calm when on her lap. The wild is so brutal...it still wanted the love and care of a mother but was already on its own, found the human warmth and affection comforting.
@@TheFunnyDictator like how those evil villains will have a satisfied face of victory and be slowly petting their cat while talking to the main protagonist
* petting him you actually expose him to disease and to smell... Their defense as a baby is to not have smell... When you touched him, you automatically made him vulnerable to predators... Rehabers usually never handle rabbit without glove as to not give Them illnesses... Baby rabbits have a fragile immune system .. So what I mean is There is 50 % chance you Killed him... And to whoever Might think of raising a Wild rabbit as pet , know that babies immune system are so fragile that they won't survive 7 ou of 10 Times even in the best hands ... They need their Mother ceacotrophe to survive . When you find a baby alone its not abandonned. The Mother is away to not out predators on their tracks and Will come back at dawn and at dusk to feed him and then leave ... This is how they protect their young as a vurnerable prey.. To deter you from touching a baby Wild rabbit that Might look alone but isnt actually and just make His life shorter..
I thought she was gonna take her away from her mother (keep the baby to herself) but OML it was SO wholesome when you just made it a nest and let it go...like gurl FR you've won millions of hearts outta there
@@AMTSA1 nah, there's a lot of rabbits where I live, they're frightened of people, and this spring there were babies and those were more cautious than the rest
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I know I was like wtf. I don’t know if we are on the same page but I thought the bunny needed help and then this millennial idiot uses it to say a cheesy quote to sound deep. Uhhhhhh what? Like bro it’s not about you. The comment said the bunny at that age could live without its mom but I hope it’s still ok. Dumbass with a phone.
WILD ANIMALS STAY IN THE WILD TO STAY WILD! Just saying. I know how you feel. I've been in the same position, but you have no choice but to let them go. 🥺🙂
@@dmhq-administration are you sure this is a wild bunny? It looks domesticated to me. What if someone left the bunny there. They can't survive in the wild.
YOU ARE A BEAUTIFUL PERSON GOD BLESS YOU. I USE TO HAVE 2 BUNNIES I LOVED THEM VERY MUCH . I LEARNED A LOT ABOUT BUNS THANK YOU FOR TAKING CARE OF HIM .😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
When you realize humans live to be 80-100 years old and bunny’s are often turned into coyote or fox sh1t somewhere between infancy and their average life span of 2-4 years. If you gotta get everything in that you’re gonna do in life b4 turning in to fox crap… I’d be hopping on my own at 15 days too.
Naw, the bunny was suicidal because it lost it's momma and siblings in a burrow fire. So, baby was trying to get hit by a car. Fire consumed the whole bunny family except for this little guy right here. Why you think his name is Lucky? Then this hoe up on the video made him think she was gonna love him and be there for him and she just abandoned him by a tree. Real lucky.
@@yusufakhtar2209 ACTUALLY… some animals like snails, prefer to be in captivity. But yes I’m sure that bunny was frozen in fear and water to be left left alone
Little bunny's leave the nest and go learn how to forage for food. They are small but they have natural instincts and will be absolutely fine. I do love seeing the babies tho!
this is the only correct comment and should be pinned because the other comment suggestions are actually gonna hurt the wild. all baby rabbits leave the nest early and jesus takes the wheel from there
But it wasn't moving and didn't run from her. That isn't normal and most vets can take on rabbits without you needing to be there to take it back. I have done this with rabbits and birds and all have been helped and only one passed away but that was a premature bird who was forced out of the nest too early and was too weak to eat.
@@highrunner3902 but all will run from you if healthy. If they don't something isn't right with that individual and you shouldn't leave it outside to be eaten by something else. There are 2 reasons you bring an animal into a vet in this situation, 1) to possibly help the animal and 2) to make sure it doesn't pass on viruses to the animal that will eat it.
@@zoinksxscooby it was most likely scared. Baby bunnies think they have camouflage for some reason. If she got too close or touched it you woulda seen it freaking out and calling for mom lol
@@Blessed_11.11 Good call. Same thing happened to me after I caught one. I looked it up and they almost always die in captivity, either from stress or not getting the mom's antibiotic milk. I was practically sprinting to put him back in the backyard after reading that.
I'm curious as to what happened to that bunny !! Did it die after being left in the woods all alone . I doubt the mother came back to get it. Poor little thing 🙁 did you go back the next day to see if it was still alive?? Maybe it got separated from it's Momma I couldn't have left if there I think I would have tried to feed it and find out what it needs to survive Not sure maybe bunny pellets I had bunnies that's what I fed them but then they had their mother with them. I hope that little darling survived and Momma came back !
The mom probably wasn't there anyway, but that's okay if it has full fur it can survive on its own for a few months in the wild, in which it will then probably die to disease or one of its many predators.
@@djailsonfelipe84 the woman ensured that the mother will never come back because she spread her scent all over it. doing this could get it eaten by the mother or just simply abandoned.
When I was like 7, maybe 8, my grandmother and I saw our Cat pouncing at something outside(We live out in the boonies so there was a lot of grass, trees and sometimes wildlife), so she had me go out with her and had me grab our cat while she grabbed the thing He was trying to get and it happened to be a lil Baby Jackrabbit like that. We ended up taking her in since we didn't see any sign of a mother and didn't trust trying to set it loose somewhere since we had our outdoor cat who was our lil Hunter, getting Ground squirrels, rats and Rattlesnakes in our area. But yeah we took the baby rabbit in and ended up keeping her for quite a few weeks where my grandmother bottle fed her with formula she bought, she had her own little rodent cage she stayed in when we weren't watching her but otherwise under my grandmother's supervision, she got to hop around the house freely most of the time and generally always went to cuddle up on my grandmother's feet or house slippers. She always ended up doing this lil butt wiggle and got so excited whenever it was time for her to get fed and she was very healthy. But my grandfather's brother, his wife and their granddaughter who was at least 4 years younger than me came to stay for a day or two with their dog, which they didn't tell us was coming with them and aside from Honey Bunny(yes my grandmother named her that), my grandparents didn't allow many pets in the house. Especially not dogs. Their granddaughter though was a little spoiled brat though. She was just demanding and rotten. Ik she was like maybe 5? But her grandmother let her have her way with everything and when she wanted to pet the rabbit, she literally was hitting her and when I told her to stop she just said "You're supposed to share! It's my rabbit too!" Uh, no its not. But we ended up putting our rabbit into the laundry room where she normally slept in her rodent cage for the night, which I tried to check on her multiple times since the other guys dog was just barking and howling throughout the night and I knew the loud noises would scare her. She ended up getting diarrhea at some point but when I got up the next morning and they were leaving, I didn't see the cage in the laundry room and my grandfather had taken it out and set it on the front porch with a little towel over Honey bunny. She died sometime during the night from what we assume was being overstressed, maybe an injury from the kid, or just a heart attack from the dog. In any case my grandmother tried to set boundaries and rules while they were all there but the kids grandmother was a snob and so was their grandchild and it costed us Honey bunny. If she had survived, My grandparents had talked about possibly releasing her out at my grandfather's old unused gravel plant job site since it was Abandoned and there was plenty of food, other jack rabbits we had seen and hiding places she could get. It would have been relatively safe for her, but otherwise we would of just ended up keeping her if we didn't think she had as good of a chance and just gave her the best life she could try and get at that point. She was the sweetest rabbit I've experienced being around
@Marl actually that myth isn't true that the mother won't accept the child, and rabbits aren't dependent on the mother after three weeks, but she still picked it up wrong though so there is that
@@AnUnimportantNPC i have many wild hears and rabbit plus pets . In the first week or 2 if u touch the mom will tear them apart its the same with guine pigs . Usually they get eatin before u even know they r born its really common . Same at pet store.. if that sounded snappy my bad broken hand hard to msg
@@fw2986flow that wasn’t a wild animal. That was a domesticated bunny, that was let go into the wild. I live in Florida, and that is more common than I’d like down here. I can’t tell you how many bunnies I’ve had to save down here, and each one goes to a wonderful family, to help get them off the streets too. That poor little bunny wouldn’t make it long if she found them down here. 😢
That was the plan but I found out it’s ilegal and that wasn’t stopping me the thing that stopped me from keeping the bunny was because they carry deseases and they wouldn’t survive in captivity 🥲
@@Blessed_11.11 huh? Seen quite a few videos with people keeping bunnies in captivity. They didn't keep them in cages most the time though. Didn't know keeping bunnies were illegal over there. Though I'm pretty sure there's shots can give them, especially when they're young. Though if they are illegal, keeping it and getting those shots would be some work yeah. I still wouldn't had left it alone. It's flight response isn't good. Letting you come right up, don't think it learned there's predators out there. I would've at least taken it to some animal shelter or something. I'm afraid it will just be easy pray to something.
@@reagenlionel Yes unfortunately this one is fragile and cannot survive in captivity…there’s no vaccines for the many deseases they carry. I actually had even made appointment for the bunny that exact day but would have gotten in trouble after doing some research 🙈
