To have rescued this rabbit?

[TechnoKitten]

Driving home at 23:45 (NZ timezone) and I had to swerve as I'm approaching my driveway to miss a rabbit in the road. (I know it's late, I'm on call and there was an emergency CS).

I pulled over, rabbit seemed very well fed / good condition and has a collar around it's neck but no contact details. So I brought it home and have stuck it in a spare chicken coop for overnight (with water, carrot & lots of grass).

DH is tolerantly amused but says he would have left the rabbit where it was. It nearly got squashed twice while I was looking around (and trying to see if any houses had lights on or concerned owners bunny-hunting).

Would anyone else have left it there?

Kara and Zukie - it wasn't a particularly nice sofa (otherwise I might have taken it home )

I suspect its ugliness was the reason it was at the side of the road pretending to be a cow.

Op you did the right thing :) and zuki, I don't always think of 'cuddleiness' when I think rabbit if you get my drift

Aww YANBU at all, if you'd lost your beloved rabbit and it'd got onto the road what would you want to happen? I'd want someone to take it to safety and report it found at the vets/ animal shelters etc. This is precisely what you're doing. If it were my rabbit I'd be grateful for your care, probably grateful enough to send round a box of chocolates and a thank you card too.

Not entirely relevant, but at an abandoned farm near my house, there is an entire colony of feral rabbits. They've been there for years - black rabbits with white bits on their backs.

They are not at ALL tame. They run like hell if you approach them. I think, years ago, someone must have left a breeding pair up there. They're all mingled in with 'normal' coloured wild rabbits now, but they've been running about up there for 15 years to my knowledge, and probably much longer.

LOL KurriKurri, I gatecrashed Air Traffic control once for a sheep in it's side in a field beside the runway on the principle that they'd be bound to know the name/number of any farmer owning land beside the runway. They looked absolutely terrified when I walked in and got them to promise they'd phone said farmer right away. Only afterwards did it occur to me why hahaha... (Security has probably gone up a hundred fold now).

I made my OH stop the car late at night for an injured dog at the side of the road. Turned out to be a black bin bag!

Update! Said rabbit does indeed belong to my colleague. They have 2 of them (well, 1 currently) but apparently they are free ranging / roaming rabbits and it's quite common for them to be out & about at night - he says they've always found their way home so far. He did suggest I just set it free but am worried that part of it's journey here was by car so am taking it to opposite his front door to set free.

It's a beautiful rabbit, not sure I'd be happy letting it roam so freely!

Are there no predators in NZ then? Or roads? Or horrible horrible people who would pop a catchable bunny in the pot without a second thought, collar or not? Can't say I approve of his take on responsible rabbit-keeping

Good job my dad didn't find it.
It would be in the slow cooker by now.

Grimma, that's exactly what I thought! I imagined a hunky handyman there for a minute!

To let a rabbit roam free may sound like a kindness but is in fact cruel - this animal is domesticated and needs to be treated as such. It clearly has no concept of road sense.

I would quietly adopt it.