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Help . Wild baby bunny under shed

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AnyaMarx · 20/05/2023 01:44

My neighbours bloody cat is a murderer- tonight it brought a baby bunny back - as she dropped the bunny it ran uninjured under the shed .

It's so little - the gap under shed is mere inches .

It hasnt come out and the cat is stalking and laying in wait .

It's impossible to get anything under the shed to get bunny to run out .

I've come to bed and it's haunting me .

The cats still out there . (I like cats but this little murderous bastard needs a bell on )

Is it just going to die under the shed ? It's totally uninjured . Its scared an wont come out for obvious reasons and I could t catch it .

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Luredbyapomegranate · 20/05/2023 02:05

I’d ask the neighbour to take the cat in, then leave it some food to encourage it out. You might have to adopt it though, because you won’t find it’s mum…

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AnyaMarx · 20/05/2023 02:07

I was going to take it to a wildlife shelter- but I just can't get it .

She did keep cat in for ages but her
Lodger let it out again and I couldn't grab the cat either to
Get it back in .

That poor little baby 🥲

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AnyaMarx · 20/05/2023 02:09

There was part of me thinking a quick end by cat was better than slow starvation under a bloody shed .

I could have kicked the bloody cat . I didn't . Obvs .

It's crossing g a busy road to go into fields . I've told her time and time again out a bell on it . One of these days it's gonna get knocked down as this is a busy 60mph road .

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Goodread1 · 20/05/2023 02:19

@AnyaMarx

Yes definitely need to have word with neighbour to tell her to take the cat in,

Youdoyoubabe · 20/05/2023 02:35

Murderous cat! 😂

There was an actual murderous dog today in Manchester I believe.....

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AnyaMarx · 20/05/2023 02:45

Youdoyoubabe · 20/05/2023 02:35

Murderous cat! 😂

There was an actual murderous dog today in Manchester I believe.....

Yep . That's correct. The point of this thread however was to attempt to get the baby rabbit before th cat did

Cats- I love them and had them but they really do kill so many other animals

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AnyaMarx · 20/05/2023 02:46

This cat kills at least 4 small mammals per day .

My two dogs have t ever killed anyone or anything so the red to the dog attack is pointless.

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merrymelodies · 20/05/2023 03:03

Poor little creature! Cats do seem cruel (I remember when my cat savaged a bird - I almost hated her) but I believe it's in their nature.

merrymelodies · 20/05/2023 03:05

Apart from physically restraining this particular cat, OP, I don't think there's much you can do.Sad

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AnyaMarx · 20/05/2023 03:08

Hunting is absolutely in a cats nature - but this particular bunny might have had a chance at f I could have caught it .

It was absolutely tiny . Looked absolutely bewildered. I just wanted to get hold of the little thing.

The cats out again so I really don't think there is anything I can do .

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PlumpkinPete · 20/05/2023 04:52

We recently had a very similar experience so passing this on from the wildlife charity I spoke to at the time.... If it's a rabbit outside of the burrow and its eyes are open and it's got fur then it's old enough to survive without mum. Get the cat back inside and see if you can tempt it out with food. Take it back to the field if you know roughly where it came from and it can probably find its way home

It's quite likely that it's actually a baby hare as they get left in long grass while the mother goes off to forage and comes back and feeds it periodically (they stay away so as not to attract predators). In that case it might be too young to survive solo as it's still on a milk diet.

I googled and I'm pretty sure the one in our garden was a hare. One wildlife rescue told me it was unlikely to survive and would be best euthanised. Another said to put it back roughly where I think it was as its mother might find it- they have quite a range apparently- and let it take its chances. Neither of them would take it in. One didn't have space, the other only took in injured animals, and the baby hare wasn't actually hurt. Like you, it was just in the wrong place.

It's worth calling round and seeing what local rescues can offer, they all seem to have different policies. https://directory.helpwildlife.co.uk/ has a list and also good general advice

In my case, in the end I managed to pull it out from where it was hiding and took it back to the area where we think it came from. I hope it found its way back to mum. It was gone an hour later when I went to check.

Good luck!

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Banoffeepie21 · 20/05/2023 04:56

I don’t understand the love for cats, I know it’s nature but I hate that they do this 😢

powerrangers · 20/05/2023 08:14

If you do catch the rabbit it is worth taking it into a wildlife centre as it would benefit from antibiotics. Cats mouths harbour many bacteria which is what often kills the animal in the end.

Bunnichick · 20/05/2023 08:47

Hope the rabbit is ok!

You can't know for sure it isn't injured as they hide it well but I hope it's ok and that bloody cat fucks off!

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AnyaMarx · 21/05/2023 00:39

I couldn't find it - I'm fearful it may have died under the shed or the cat will have waited for it to reappear.

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