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The Dog |
Shortly before
My Vet came
home from work, I stepped
outside to check the mail. I had already let the
dog out, so when I looked to the right and saw a
giant hole in the front
yard, I immediately knew the culprit.
Annoyed, doesn't begin to describe my initial reaction. On Saturday I spent a good bit of
$$ and a fair amount of
time, spreading lime, fertilizer, and grass seed in various areas of the yard. Including a small area right where this new hole is,
grrrrrrr. When I stopped to look closer at the hole to assess the
repairs I would need to make, a
movement caught my eye.
Oh Oh what did he do now?
Upon closer inspection I found 5
baby rabbits, huddled and
shivering in the cool evening air.
Not sure what the
right thing to do was, I took the
dog in for a
bath, and sent a
text to My Vet.
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Newly 'insulated' rabbit hole |
Like
most men, I would not use the words warm and fuzzy to describe My Vet.
Yet, there he was digging through the closet, garage, and yard to
find bedding material to keep them warm for the night in a way that hopefully
their mom would find them and take over.
This morning after checking that they were
still there and
alive, he left for work. Vowing to pick up some
straw while at a horse appointment this morning. These are the types of little things that make
all wives love their husbands just a
lit bit more. Right?
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Makeshift fence |
The babies' alive, I now need to solve the
problem of an imminent
predator, The Dog! A couple of weeks ago this would have proved more challenging. Luckily on
Saturday, while I was busy trying to grow grass instead of weeds,
My Vet was busy
replacing the
fencing by the
garden. This left me with some items I could use to create a
makeshift fence. Now the dog has the run of the back yard, and the babies are in the front.
Please
ignore the huge patches of
dirt in the photo. That is one of the many
areas I seeded on Saturday. I now know
why I had a repair
patch in the location of the
new hole though.
Yeah!! (sarcasm is really hard to do in print.)
***UPDATE*** The straw kept them warm and alive for another night. And it looked like mom had bedded down with them for the night. Then after work the next day, the bunnies were gone. We are believing that mom moved them, not that they were victims of another predator.
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