Baby Bunny Help please...

oldehome

oldehome

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I know this is far off newf topics, but we have a baby cottontail that we just rescued from our cat's mouth. It appears unharmed, but is so young without his eyes open...so cute! I have done google searches to get info and cat's milk seems to be an alternative. They say survival is unlikely so young but we have to try. To the vet in the a.m. for formula if the baby has no damage and survives.
Any experience or help here??? He is so tiny, so I don't know if he will survive but miracles happen! I don't know of any sanctuaries near here.
Please let me know as I just can't do nothing. We looked but can't find any nest to return the wee one :(
THANKS KINDLY!
Judy
 
lacey9875

lacey9875

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Keep him warm, I think. And good luck, one got up under the siding on my house last spring, all I could see was his little bunny-hieny sticking out. I went to get a crow bar to start prying siding off, and he had ( THANK GOD) wiggled out.
 
dannyra

dannyra

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Good luck. They are very tough to save. We had 3 cats find a nest a couple years ago. All in all we got 6 of them saved from the cats but none made it through the night. To much stress I believe.
 
BigJimsmagik

BigJimsmagik

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Cats have a bacteria in their mouths that will Kill pretty quickly if it punctured skin.
If you can't take it to the emergency vet, keep it warm and away from any drafts. where it is dark and quiet.
Sending Good thoughts his way.
 
Sound Bay Newfs

Sound Bay Newfs

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You should be able to get goat's milk canned or fresh. They sell it here in the grocery stores. You might be able to bottle feed him with the goat's milk and a small baby bottle.
 
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wrknnwf

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I had some success with an entire litter of (eyes closed) bunnies once when I was in grade school. Goats milk served tepid in a doll bottle every 4 hours round the clock. When their eyes opened, we had little jaunts in the yard every day.

Be careful though, they cannot digest a bunch of greens when they are young. Nibbling grass is fine, just don't give them a lot of scraps from your produce. My mother managed to kill 5 of the six bunnies by tossing a ton of carrot tops in their box. They were several weeks old by then. The vet said that's what killed them. Gorging, I guess.

Anyway, "Snippet" was the only survivor and I (tearfully) released him back into the wild at my mother's insistence. I'm sure he went on to create thousands of babies over the years. I loved you Snippet and I haven't forgotten all these 50 years later.

As a side bar, we had a poodle that loved the baby bunnies and liked to take them out of their box and hold them in his mouth or set them on his paws to wash. The bunnies weren't exactly crazy about it though and would scream to high heaven, alerting the whole family to their dilemma! At the time, I didn't think it was cute, but now I realize he meant them no harm.
 
lapage24

lapage24

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I've been looking into getting a few rabbits and some of the things I read about bottle feeding the babies included adding karo syrup and an egg yolk to the goat's milk. I guess they need tons of calories.
 
pabusinesswoman

pabusinesswoman

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Yep... we used kitten formula to feed the ones we saved.

We have had a few different instances that we have tried to save them. The worst was when I was mowing fields. The fields were so deep that it was over the front of the big tractor.... 2-3 feet deep. So, it was hard to see where one was going.

The blades hit what we thought was just the the ears of a whole nest of them. I felt so bad, they stayed in the nest and were screaming. We took in the litter and cleaned them up. The one... actually was down into the brain and only made it a few hrs. The other had some head trama also. There wasn't much more we could do. The remaining two survied out of 4 and were released back into the wild.

You should be able to call your state environmental agency (or Canadian equivalent) for folks that are employed by the government to take care of it. They may have someone closer than you think. We have one the next road over and I did not even know it. If not, they may be able to make other suggestions.

Good luck! They are so cute when they are that age. Please keep us posted.
 
oldehome

oldehome

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Hi and thanks everyone for the hopes and help for this tiny bunny. He's 's so small..only about 3 inches or not even...but he did make it thru' the night and he's been fed and stimulated to poop. I am winging this from info from my vet, what I've read and from my heart. I understand that survival rate at this size is not great but we're going for a win here.
So here's to the wee bunny...:hugs:
 
R Taft

R Taft

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Good luck..........I have raised baby Kangaroos on goats milk mixed with egg, it seems to work well on herbivors
 
Kelridge

Kelridge

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R Taft said:
Good luck..........I have raised baby Kangaroos on goats milk mixed with egg, it seems to work well on herbivors
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Just to read that is sooooo cool! baby kangaroos...I cannot even imagine how CUTE that is!


:sunflower: And Yes, I agree - if ANYONE can do all they can for that baby bunny - its YOU Judy! No question! keep us posted!
 
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