What do I do with a rabbit?

[ginnybag]

Not an Sony, but need answers! Lady few houses along,has,a pet rabbit.... or more accurately it seems her son does.

It's been escaping on and off and got out again this morning. It's dug out of the back garden, so she said. I knocked on and she chased it back into her garden.

It must have got pretty much straight back out again, because it popped up on Facebook a couple of hours ago.

It's out again now. We've just pulled it from some dead ground across the road and brought it to her, but she's either gone out or not answering.

It's freezing here, it's been raining all day, there are loads of cars and cats, and foxes. I've brought it into the kitchen, lined an old toy box with towels and put some water in a dish.

What do I do next? I've nothing to feed it and nowhere else to put it if it comes to that. DD has been told to leave it alone and it seems to have gone to sleep for now.

out - i meant Pet, damned autocorrect!

So the rabbit belongs to someone but you're going to try to get it rehomed?

Right.

Onion to be honest they either need to keep the rabbit more secured or something but to go out for the day when they know the rabbit has escaped, that's hardly responsible pet owning is it?

No it's not.

I have a rabbit, she's only let out when someone is home but even she got into our neighbours garden once, they are escape artists.

Update: owner has been, new hutch in tow, and very grateful and apologetic. Bunny is called Bobby, apparently.

She explained what had happened and why it was able to get out today, and I did offer to take it to a shelter if she wanted, but definitely not - see new hutch. I'm reasonably happy she's not generally neglecting it, but I will keep an eye out. If I have to collect it again, I'll take it to a shelter, no hesitation

Thank you very much to all the people who posted to help!! NOT so much the suggestions of rabbit stew!!!

Next doors rabbit gets into our garden on a regular basis and doesn't seem to be concerned about getting it back. Me and dd have devised a way of putting it into a small strong tesco bag, attaching the bag to the end of the washing line prop, I get on the step.ladder and lower it over the fence to the ground and it hops out.

We call it our Esio Trott mission!!

You could give it cabbage carrot etc for now

Our bunny loved jelly babies and could hunt one out on a shelf 3 foot off the ground. I had never seen a rabbit climb before that.

That's good, Ginnybag - glad Bobby Bunny is safe. Well done to you for looking after him.

Good news for bobby the bunny. And for the adjacent gardens as the things are absolute wreckers.

For those who do like them best in a slow cooker - the instructions for humane transformation into dinner are on youtube. It is messy if you get it wrong.

Apologies for any perceived insensitivity - it really wasn't clear from the thread title we were talking about a neglected/abandoned pet. Yes, it became clear within the body of the OP but I opened the thread primed to provide a recipe and black humour kicked in. Doesn't mean I'm a callous evil witch unmoved by the plight of an abused animal. I wouldn't dream of killing and eating a pet rabbit any more than I would one of my cats and am glad the poor rabbit has the OP looking out for his welfare.

Too little, too late, you evil bunny boiler {grin]

Sodding curly bracket spoiling my grin face

Whispers well obviously a lesson to read the post and not just the title!

I'm pleased at least that my friends who had pet rabbits were sufficiently shocked and sad that their pets were served up for dinner - both true stories.

If ever you're worried again, Pennine Pen pet rescue in Oldham have rabbits and a Facebook page - not a million miles away.

And for bunny enthusiasts reading this:
'Chocolate contains theobromine, which is toxic to rabbits' and dogs and horses. It has a cumulative effect, so the more it gets, the worse the effects.

Awwwwwww. Glad Bobby the bunny is back with his mummy/daddy.
--Although before I opened your thread. I thought you were talking about something else. Me and my dirty mind.

Superfly You're right, of course, but then you missed the bit in my post which makes what I did even worse, I did read the whole OP before I responded so flippantly.

Again, apologies to all pet rabbit owners for being an insensitive twunk if not quite an evil bunny boiler - Evans .

They like celery (or at least my old neighbour's one did).
Set it up some little jumps on the kitchen floor (in case of accidents) and let it have a bit of fun.

Now I've finished reading the thread.... Glad it's a happy ending

Whispers never mind I do know a lot of people were joking about the food aspect of the bunny... I just don't find it funny personally!

I know most normal people wouldn't do that and I can see how the thread title can have been misread.

As MN HQ says "peace and love!". There should be a peace sign here!