A pair of wild vicious beasts that attacked me while I was trying to cut the grass. They're a little to young to be on their own and a mother rabbit won't always take back a baby that doesn't smell right so it looks like we'll be raising them for 2 or 3 weeks.

Those do look adorable GMS; just don't let your weasels (or rats either) eat these babies. lol

awe.... my 2 sons found a nest o 3 abandoned babies last year.we raised them for 2 weeks and set them free.
I sure hope the neighbors cat didn't get them. *sigh*
Hate that sound babies make when predators get them...sends chills down my spine.mamamamamamama
It does indeed sound like that too...or... maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Aww they are so cute!

Pentagonal Bunnies

Sorry couldn't help myself. Since I'm still in 2.6.11 world (not 2.7.3), I used a Select rotational Script-fu for this result (and not the recent plugin that only works for 2.7x GIMP). Sorry for the sorry extraction (not good that them; lol).

Bunny Globe

And then they breed. lol

The rats wouldn't bother them, the ferrets would eat them and smile while they did.

My wife likes the pentagonal bunnies. I'll do just fine with the two we have. Unlike most animals rabbits can die just from shock and tend to be really delicate. Even full grown wild ones can die if they get too scared. We've given each a dropper or two full of soy baby formula, which is what we use to put weight on baby rats. If they get sick we'll give then a tiny bit of batril and if they get too jumpy (rabbit... jumpy... get it?) we'll give them a tiny bit if Valium. If they survive the first 3 or 4 days they should be fine. Good thing we're unofficial vets.

Yup we fed the ones we had baby formula with reg iron content.We used an eyedropper also.

On the one hand I'm happy to see the wild critters rescued, but on the other hand, mama isn't there to teach them how to take care of themselves and when they are released back into the wild, I wonder how proficient they are at hiding from enemies, taking care of themselves, etc.

I think in the long run, I'm really against domesticating wild animals.

We have a lot of coons here and there's absolutely nothing cuter than a baby one. A "tamed" one might someday turn around and rip off your arm.

Raccoons are very appealing and cute and they are very dangerous.

Maybe so for coons O, but rabbits just have that cute factor; even wild ones. Maybe it was all those bugs bunny cartoons I saw as a kid, but I always liked rabbits (but did eat rabbit meat once and have to admit it was not bad; tasted sort of like slightly sour chicken as I recall). lol

mY mother used to cook rabbits often when we were kids...eweeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! nasty stuff.

Rabbits aren't the best parents of the animal world, so she wouldn't teach them much. Like rats, they learn what they can and can't eat because the mother's milk contains some of what she ate and it's transmitted to them. We've raised them before and haven't had trouble that I know of with them learning what to avoid, which for a rabbit ir pretty much everything. I'm not big on making pets of wild critters either but it was that or let them die. Coons do make pretty good pets I you get them young. I traded a small color TV that i fixed once for a 6 week old one. He was fine other than being clumsy around the house. He tried to climb up a table cloth and broke my ex wife's $70 depression glass bowl. I found that like cats and ferrets, if you teach them to play rough they will be rough, if you teach them to be gentle they usually will. I've had coons, skunks, groundhogs, all sorts of what you might call wild, and some do well, others don't. I come from a log line of country folks, almost 200 year worth and have been around wild things all my life and have had experience with a lot of animals. Mostly I agree with you and don't think some are good pets. Having said that I always wanted a lynx or timber wolf. But then I never claimed to be normal.

Yes, I grew up on rabbit, squirrel, groundhog, deer, frog, goose, quail, crow, (yes, really), and Canada goose. I never liked any of it and now that I'm an old guy and I can eat what I want, I only eat what comes from the grocery store.

I only eat what I want to eat and not what anyone tells me to eat!! LOL
Us pensioners can do that because I think we have earned it!

I think house raised bunnies do fine when released back to the wild because I think most of their skills are inherited, not learned.

, yes, that was my point but you said it better. In UK I think I would be a pensioner, if i understand the term right. I learned it from dr Who. I don't like wild food, my wife does and my mother in law will eat the most disgusting things, but i won't eat anything if i don't like it.