# We Have Baby Bunnies~ Redux~ New & Improved With Pix **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 21, 2009, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-baby-bunnies-redux-new-improved-with-pix/503711 "2009-07-21T02:34:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-baby-bunnies-redux-new-improved-with-pix/503711/1 "2009-07-21T02:34:29Z")
Much to my chagrin, we have a … litter? … of new baby bunnies in the yard. Yes, they are adorable. They don’t even have their little eyes open yet. We could see 3 without disturbing the nest. Unfortunately, we found them when we heard one squeaking from the mouth of one of our dogs. We have two shih tzus and two yorkies. One of the shih tzus had the baby in his mouth but it was probably one of the yorkies that found them. The shih tzu dropped it on command and it didn’t appear to be hurt so we returned it to the nest where he burrowed in. Now the dogs are relentless. Mama Bunny moved them as soon as we got the dogs back inside but she only moved them to the next shrub over. For now, all pottying is monitored and no little dogs will be allowed to disturb them but I KNOW the little bastids will grow up to eat my landscaping and flowers. \ ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-baby-bunnies-redux-new-improved-with-pix/503711/2 "2009-07-21T03:25:17Z")
We had **[bunnies](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=262964)** a few years ago. It was fun to watch them grow, but it was sad when they all left. They were just itty-bitty little things - I thought there were only three at first, but it turned out to be five, in a little hole in the middle of the yard. We watched the dog carefully whenever she went out - like you said, no unsupervised potty time. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-baby-bunnies-redux-new-improved-with-pix/503711/3 "2009-07-21T04:02:14Z")
Good advice in that thread, **BiblioCat**. I don’t have a problem with (and have actually encouraged) the dogs to chase the grown up bunnies. We just couldn’t leave the defenseless little buggers to the dogs. I’m hoping Mama moves them to the neighbors with no dogs tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-baby-bunnies-redux-new-improved-with-pix/503711/4 "2009-07-21T05:38:46Z")
Why are there no pictures here? ~checks all corners of the thread~ ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-baby-bunnies-redux-new-improved-with-pix/503711/5 "2009-07-21T07:01:12Z")
Takes deeep breath… SQEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE pictures pictures must see pictures pretty pretty please with sugar on top ahem… carry on ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-baby-bunnies-redux-new-improved-with-pix/503711/6 "2009-07-21T10:45:43Z")
Rabbit stew is delicious. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-baby-bunnies-redux-new-improved-with-pix/503711/7 "2009-07-21T11:10:43Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > They were just itty-bitty little things - I thought there were only three at first, but it turned out to be five, in a little hole in the middle of the yard. Why do rabbits do that? We have this spot in the middle of the yard that rabbits keep trying to make into a burrow for their new litters, and we have to keep chasing them off from there and into the brush. If not, we’d surely have a lawnmowing incident at some point. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-baby-bunnies-redux-new-improved-with-pix/503711/8 "2009-07-21T12:00:59Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Why do rabbits do that? We have this spot in the middle of the yard that rabbits keep trying to make into a burrow for their new litters, and we have to keep chasing them off from there and into the brush. If not, we’d surely have a lawnmowing incident at some point. Because rabbits are not smart creatures. Thank God. If they were as smart as raccoons and reproduced at that rate, they’d be supervillians. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-baby-bunnies-redux-new-improved-with-pix/503711/9 "2009-07-21T12:07:20Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Why do rabbits do that? We have this spot in the middle of the yard that rabbits keep trying to make into a burrow for their new litters, and we have to keep chasing them off from there and into the brush. If not, we’d surely have a lawnmowing incident at some point. I’d love to know. That was the only time I saw a burrow out in the middle of the yard; usually they were under the shrubs along the sides. I was amazed that a rabbit would decide to ‘hide’ her babies right in the middle of the yard, especially one that smelled of dog. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-baby-bunnies-redux-new-improved-with-pix/503711/10 "2009-07-21T13:40:01Z")
I’ve mentioned here often before - I’m a soft-hearted animal lover and a vegetarian, but from what those little jerks do to my garden, I’d gladly make them into hassenpfeffer. Except that they make that horrible scream if injured. I think that little evolutionary path keeps them safe from people like me. ---
**Author:** ![Vihaga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Vihaga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vihaga)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-baby-bunnies-redux-new-improved-with-pix/503711/11 "2009-07-21T14:21:36Z")
Now I’m worried that the bunnies that I’ve been seeing hanging around my lettuce have babies somewhere nearby, just waiting to get big enough to also invade my garden. I release the hounds on the big ones (I call them off before they get dangerously close!), but I don’t know if I could do that to baby bunnies… ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-baby-bunnies-redux-new-improved-with-pix/503711/12 "2009-07-21T14:29:30Z")
As stupid as rabbits are, I figure the ones that decide to set up housekeeping inside a fenced yard reeking of dog occup the shallowest end of the gene pool. I’m not going to restrain my dogs from using my yard. What do you think - if I put the baby bunnies over the fence will mom re-house them? Or is it just a matter of time before something else eats them, in which case I’d be kinder to kill them quickly before evicting them? This spring there were a couple of weeks that rabbits apparently thought our local dog park was a wonderful place to raise their young. Hardly a day went by that I didn’t have the pleasure of prying somewhat worse-for-wear bunnies out of my pups’ mouths. (Those got dispatched quickly.) Hell, I didn’t really care if the dogs supplemented their diets. I just wasn’t all that keen on the prospect of picking up the residua afterwards! ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-baby-bunnies-redux-new-improved-with-pix/503711/13 "2009-07-21T14:29:33Z")
[http://cuteoverload.com/tag/bunnies/](http://cuteoverload.com/tag/bunnies/) Scroll down the first page for pics of baby buns. Notice that there are several pages. Now, will someone please revive madrabbitwoman from her diabetic/cute overload induced coma? ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-baby-bunnies-redux-new-improved-with-pix/503711/14 "2009-07-21T17:20:13Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > If not, we’d surely have a lawnmowing incident at some point. That was how I found my first ever bunny burrow, after Mr. singular ran one over with the mower. And damned if the remaining bunnies weren’t the most squee-inducing creatures I’ve ever held. Oh, and thanks, Lynn. I just wasted a half an hour on that site! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-baby-bunnies-redux-new-improved-with-pix/503711/15 "2009-07-21T18:21:47Z")
Try not to touch them - the mother will abandon any that smell too much like people. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-baby-bunnies-redux-new-improved-with-pix/503711/16 "2009-07-21T18:23:27Z")
Back before the woods behind us got turned into a housing development, we used to get bunnies in our yard. We have dogs and my neighbor has dogs. Ma Bunny was definitely on the shallow end of the bunny gene pool because she blatantly ignored all of the safe wooded areas and areas outside of our fences where she could have easily made a bunny litter. Instead, she made her litter on the side of our yard, inside the fence and well inside of dog territory. We discovered the first one when we went out to see our dog throwing something into the air, which turned out to be a baby bunny (it died). We tried to keep our dog away from the bunnies, but she still managed to get another baby a few days later. The other babies finally made it out of the nest, and went into the neighbor’s yard, where they promptly became food for her dogs. The next year, Ma Bunny built her nest in exactly the same place. This time, we decided to try and save the bunnies. We called up the local vet, who warned us that baby bunnies are notoriously difficult to keep alive. We left them in the nest as long as we could, but when it became apparent that they were just going to end up as dog food again we rescued the bunnies and put them in a small cage. Our vet gave us good advice, but the bunnies lived up to their difficult reputation and died. Dumb bunnies. There’s a reason they reproduce, well, like bunnies. Fortunately, Ma Bunny never made a nest in our yard again. ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-baby-bunnies-redux-new-improved-with-pix/503711/17 "2009-07-21T22:48:46Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Try not to touch them - the mother will abandon any that smell too much like people. I know this isn’t GQ, but do you have cite for this? I’m assuming you’ve simply exapanded on the old “touching a bird’s nest/baby bird will cause the parent bird to abandon the nest because it ‘smells like humans’” myth. [Cite](http://naturescorner.brentjohner.com/blog/common-myths-about-baby-birds/). ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-baby-bunnies-redux-new-improved-with-pix/503711/18 "2009-07-21T22:56:02Z")
When we had bunnies, my kids handled them a few times. Okay, I did, too. I couldn’t resist. They were just so damn cute. Mommy Bunny always came back to them. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-baby-bunnies-redux-new-improved-with-pix/503711/19 "2009-07-21T23:34:46Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > Mommy Bunny always came back to them. Damn hairless monsters. Handling my babies! I’m gonna wash you in lye soap!:mad: ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-baby-bunnies-redux-new-improved-with-pix/503711/20 "2009-07-22T00:48:13Z")
Yesterday I started [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=525252) about our new baby bunnies. I went out this morning and took [pictures](http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y279/Ruby_Rubena/Bunnies/) and I think they’ve doubled in size overnight. Mama Bunny moved them after the first incident with the dogs. We thought that she had moved them out of the yard only to find out that she moved them to the next shrub over. When the dogs found the second nest, she moved them back to the first nest…:rolleyes: At any rate, now that we know they’re still in the yard, the dogs are on leashes until they’re big enough to fend for themselves. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-baby-bunnies-redux-new-improved-with-pix/503711.md?page=2)