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mommatracy
True Blue Farmgirl
490 Posts
Tracy
My. Olive
NC
USA
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 Posted - Aug 22 2007 : 1:45:25 PM
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| My cat,Cashmere, has twice brought a poor baby bunny out of the woods and tormented it in my back yard! Our neighborhood is over-run with rabbits. They are everywhere . I only let my two cats out for an hr. or two each day and now I have to keep them in at least until the little wee bunnies get some size and fight in them! I don't know what to do. I have chased her down both times like something wild and got her to turn the bunny loose. I don;t know if she would kill them but she sure torments them. I just wonder how many she has carried away from their moms and disabled them. She used to bring dead baby mice, birds, or small snakes to my back door and I thought that was bad but Lord I feel sorry for the bunnies. Once she was on our upper deck at the beach and a bird kept flying down and teasing her. One day I had the sliding door open, the bird flew in low to taunt the cat and in a nano second Cashmere had the bird in her mouth and was running through our house with me screaming beind her. Feathers were flying everywhere. She ended up under my bed with the bird. I got a broom and ran her from under the bed. She dropped the now dead bird and I had to clean up a real mess. My DH and MIL were laughing hysterical at the whole show! It's funny now but boy did that tear me up. |
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Love-in-a-Mist
True Blue Farmgirl
367 Posts
Shannon
Independence
Oregon
USA
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Aug 22 2007 : 7:58:05 PM
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Hi Tracy-
My dog, Elie, brought me two baby bunnies this Spring. I made him drop one, and he turned around and went to the nest and grabbed another! All the while I'm trying to get dinner on for guests from Atlanta!! He's a soft mouthed retreiver though, so he didn't hurt them. I just put them in a bird cage until they got their strength back, fed them goats milk with an eye dropper and let them go when they were ready, and BOY were they ready!!!
"She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian. |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Posted - Aug 23 2007 : 11:19:58 AM
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Oh, those poor baby bunnies! I know it is hard to see something so cute and cuddly at the mercy of a predator. *hugs*
Alee
The amazing one handed typist! One hand for typing, one hand to hold Nora!
http://home.test-afl.tulix.com/aleeandnora/ |
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mommatracy
True Blue Farmgirl
490 Posts
Tracy
My. Olive
NC
USA
490 Posts |
Posted - Aug 23 2007 : 1:19:23 PM
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| Thank you ladies for responding. I spoke too soon. When I got home yesterday evening I found a dismembered baby bunny laying next to my front porch steps in the shrubbery bed. It made me sick. That poor little thing! Cashmere,(the bunny murderer) got out yesterday afternoon when I had a chair delivered to my house. She ran out before I could stop her. I feed her very well so there was no reason for her to kill and mangle the bunny. She would not come back in the house until daybreak this morning. She is so turned on to the hunt now and doesn't want to come in as she did before. I am going to try my very best to keep her in for a good long while so that those baby bunnies can get some size to them and maybe stand a better chance of escape. |
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Traumatized baby rabbit!
