A wild rabbit has moved into my garden… WWYD?

[ReeseWitherfork]

About a month ago a wild rabbit moved into my garden. She’s a happy little thing, comes out in the mornings and evenings as soon as the kids have come inside. Hides behind the shed during the day. The RSPCA website said to leave alone. My vet friend said there was no harm putting the odd lettuce leaf down. Now the weather is super hot, and there are thunderstorms on the horizon, does anyone have any insight into things I should be doing? I’m torn between wanting to leave her to it with having some compassion for a lost rabbit and helping her out with some water. I’ve grown quite attached! There was a fox sat on the lawn the other day and my husband even started panicking about her.

We had wild bunnies in the garden in our old house, including babies. DD used to love watching them when she was a toddler. I really miss seeing them!

Good luck with your bunny, OP. I hope she isn't too lonely.

Aww that looks like Bella, my lovely silver fox rabbit, sadly gone now.

@LunaNorth Argyll is extremely vain glad to pose. He's been a bit upset lately as we've had mink move in and stalk our ducks and lambs and one fancied him through the window for a while which terrified him. Now he's calmed down and taken to campaigning for the choice of what we watch on tv at night (his current preference seems to be Vikings and Pirates) and sneaking up and jumping on DH from above any time he falls asleep on the sofa. He also makes Dd1 walk miles in search of one specific type of willow because the one in the garden is obviously not tasty enough. He likes to snooze on the windowsill at the back of the sofa during the day and watch has gathered up a bigger fan base now of delivery drivers and lorry men who deliver next door so I put a wee name card on his bed and DH was baffled for ages by random drivers asking after Argyll until he caught on how they knew.

Good luck with your bunny OP (I feel I should make a passing reference to your situation )

But wow, Argyll! @Objectionhearsayspeculation you should do an AMA about life with Argyll. It will break Mumsnet and go straight into classics, whilst giving us all our joy for life back.

My parents had a lone rabbit move in to the garden. Or so they thought. Of course, they multiplied rapidly & burrowed under the shed to such an extent that the shed partly collapsed. The shed collapse happened at pretty much the same time as a neighbour finally accepted that she had lost her battle of chickens v fox and so, as the fox had lost the steady stream of new chickens which must have made up its main diet, the fox had to look for another food supply and moved onto the rabbits. There are now no rabbits. There are still areas of the shed which you try to avoid in case you go through the floor. Any rabbits which are now seen in the garden are shot and given to a neighbour (not the former chicken owning one) for stew.
Most conversations with my parents involve not only a list of ailments which various people I have never met are suffering from but also a list of which animals have been eaten etc. One of the cygnets was presumed eaten two weeks ago but miraculously re-appeared a few days later.

If you see the fox again maybe run out in the garden and scare it off

God we have so many of them, dozens, I just let them be, they scarper off if they see you and are effectively nocturnal.

What a lovely thread - apart from the recipe offers!!