5 minute freewrite 2361 prompt contact the rabbit
This is my post for #freewriters 2361 prompt contact the rabbit hosted by @mariannewest
Every morning my husband takes the dogs outside our front gate and lets them explore all the animal scents that came to visit the night before. He did this today and when he brought the dogs back in the gate, a little rabbit about the size of Rudy hopped out of the woods and sat in our driveway, he said it was not afraid of him or the dogs and the dogs just stared at it. I wonder if they thought it was Rudy. This makes me think that if Rudy did get loose, maybe the dogs would not hurt him, by now they might think he is part of the pact. Since it was not afraid my husband tried to contact the rabbit but as he walked closer to it, it hopped back into the woods.
I thought about letting Rudy go in the same spot this little fellow was at, but he knows nothing about being in the wild and my husband said the other little rabbit was not going to last long in the wild because he does not know that people and dogs are danger to him. I can not decide which is the cruelest thing to do with him, keeping him locked up in a cage {this is all he knows} or putting him out in the woods where he knows nothing, they both seem cruel to me. By keeping him in the cage, I give him love, he is safe and gets all the food he needs. In the wild would he be looking for his box house to sleep in and what about his treats that he looks forward to each night and first thing in the morning before he goes back to his house to sleep for the day?
Rudy when I first found him
Rudy April 26, he is sleeping so I didn't want to wake him to get a new picture.
photos are mine
Maybe get another rabbit that can be his friend. I dunno how well domestic and wild rabbits will get along but Rudy is far from a wild rabbit.
I wanted to do that but what I read was they will fight. I wanted to let him go on a farm with tame rabbits but they say the others will not accept a strange rabbit in their warren.
The rabbit is safer in your place than in the wild ma'am.
@fixyetbroken that is what we think, too. It just seems cruel to keep a wild animal in a cage, I took him outside once and put him on the ground in an open bottom cage and he was so scared, until I brought him back to his cage.
If he had been older when I got him and he knew about the wild, it would be a different story, but being in his cage is all he knows.
True. But it's nice that the rabbit becomes your pet too.
He is, I just struggle with him in a cage,
Nice. 😊
thank you @hive-106316
Rudy is absolutely adorable! I think you are doing the right thing by keeping him inside where he is safe and well-fed.
I know you are right but it is still hard to look at him in a cage.