Very glad for a happy ending for the cute little guy. Thanks for the update.
my cousin works for a major so cal bread bakery on the delivery side that supplies a hell of a lot of restaurants and civic institutions in central and so cal and for some reason no matter what warehouse/depot they move to there are always several cases of people dumping animals behind or near it
in fact, that’s how we found 3 of our 6 cats we’ve had over the years … the condition they were found in was downright evil …
At one point, my husband was working at a thrift store. One morning, he arrived (before the store was open) and discovered someone had “donated” a box of kittens.
By the end of the day, every kitten had a home, with an employee or with someone who’d come to drop off their own donations. No, we didn’t get one (the cat we had at the time strongly disliked other cats).
Judging by the amount of honking and hopping going on at my feet now, someone is happy to hear that.
Unfortunately, we are just a few short weeks from rabbit dumping season.
I support this pit wholeheartedly, and will take this opportunity to rant about my neighbors. This family decided some years ago they were farmers. Emphasis because these people now believe their 10 acres is feeding America and endlessly post poor-pitiful-unappreciated-farmer tripe. To date they’ve gone through a large number of chickens, goats, llamas, pigs, sheep, cows, and rabbits. When I say ‘gone through’, it is not a figure of speech – it’s hard to believe just how many animals have died in their care over the years. They are profoundly ignorant and not interested in changing, as in learning how to properly care for their animals and then making the effort to do so. Their response to a dead animal is ‘it was a learning experience’ and then they go buy a new one. No evidence they’ve learned anything since the death rate never drops. While they can always find money for another cute young critter, I recently found out they castrate their own cats & dogs. No anesthesia, no sterile anything, just slice the testicles off & then brag about their animal husbandry skills when the animal lives. I pointed out this was torture, and watched that go right over their heads. Anyway, the reason this posting triggered me, is they started raising rabbits a couple years ago. When I asked how they culled rabbits they don’t sell, or are defective, etc there was much mumbling which tells me they’re just turning them loose. This is a rural area with lots of rabbit predators so it’s effective, but so shitty in so many ways. Thanks for the opportunity to vent. I hate these people.
More likely, at this level of ignorance, they leave the kits and bucks in the same pen. The bucks will kill and eat the kits if not separated.
Rabbits can be fierce.
Yeah, I’ve heard that, fiver six times.
Oh, that’s priceless.
And now I’ll have to go re-read Watership Down. Wonderful story, who knew rabbits were so interesting?
I still have nightmares about the Sixers former mascot
Well, same city, but different sport…I’m sure Gritty has made up for it. 
Gritty has large googly eyes, a big smile & lots of orange fur; that’s a far cry from some over-muscled rabbit with no visible eyes (mirrored shades)
Gritty wears a hockey uniform; not sure why that evil rabbit wore gloves as no one on the hardwood does.
F that thing!
While I love Watership Down, as Ursula K. Le Guin pointed out in her essay collection Cheek by Jowl, the author himself didn’t have a very clear idea of how interesting rabbits are. Or else he just ignored many interesting aspects of their lives to make his characters conform better to 1978 expectations about gender roles in heroic quest tales.
I mean, we all know that rabbits don’t in fact talk or invent boats or totalitarian police states, or recruit injured seagulls to reconnoiter territory for them and so forth. But Richard Adams gets a lot wrong about rabbits even when he’s ostensibly narrating more naturalistic descriptions of rabbit behavior, or even quoting directly (and selectively) from naturalists about rabbit behavior.
The PBS program Nature had a very good episode a couple of years ago about rabbits and hares.
“Ees vinished Mr. Voomvard, yah?”
“Yah,” responded Hazel.