Grizz got bunnies!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So I’d just finished mowing my front yard. GrizzCub (4 1/2 years old) and I are picking some stray weeds when I notice some stray sheepdog fur in the grass.
Well, I’d just sheared my sheepdog in the garage the other day and evidently a tuft was blown 'round to the front yard where it became entangled in the grass.

I pick it up and see that some remained stuck in the grass.
I bend to pick up the remaining fur and…

IT MOVED!

What could it be? Snakes? nah. Skunk?! Possibly, but since I haven’t been sprayed yet, unlikely. Chipmunks? Probably. I catch them burrowing holes all around my garden.
I grab a LONG stick (hey, it might just BE a skunk, right?) and move the remaining fur aside.

Bunnies!
Three little baby bunnies.

I call my son over and show him the bunnies.
Amazingly, he already knows what’s next. He blathered on in what seemed like a HUGE run-on sentence…
“Gotta cover them back up. Keep them warm. Mama bunny is gonna come back soon I bet. Can’t come back out and look at them again. Gotta leave them alone and don’t touch them. Pretty cool wasn’t it? We got bunnies! Gotta tell the neighbor. He just got a new puppy and don’t want to have the puppy find the bunnies and disturb them. Can’t run the lawnmower here any more. Might hurt the bunnies.”

That’s where my brain screeched to a halt.

Whoa… I had JUST mowed the lawn. I must have made at least two passes over that bunny-hutch. I shudder to think of the horror I would have had to explain to my GrizzCub had one of those bunnies gotten skittish.

Well, anyway, they’re still safe and warm.

We got bunnies!

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Yay! Bunnies are so cute when they just have those little nubbin ears! :slight_smile:
Trivia Fact–Did you know momma bunny only visits the babies for 10 minutes once a day?

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I thought it was for just 20 minutes, once. In 1960.

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Are you going to adopt mommy bunny as well?

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I demand bunny pictures!

If it won’t disturb them, that is.

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Heee-eeey… I’m not ready for THAT kind of a commitment.

Actually, I hope they hop happily away soon. Their burrow is right in my front yard, not twenty feet from the street. One wouldn’t drive down my street unless one lived here and most of the homeowners are elderly, so the traffic moves pretty slowly. But still, it makes me nervous to have bunnies that close to moving car tires.
GrizzCub wanted me to put food out for mommy-bunny. I tried to explain to him that it’s best if they come to rely on us for food. We don’t want them to LIVE right in our front yard because of the traffic. I’m not sure I convinced him though.

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That’s only aqua-bunnies.