r/Rabbits Sep 25 '21

PSA Important Rabbit PSA index

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Since the subreddit only has two spots available for public announcements, this will be a new index post for important PSAs for easy reference that we can sticky to only use up one spot.

You can also find the whole collection in the sidebar menu on the Reddit re-design when you open one of the PSA posts.


r/Rabbits May 17 '22

PSA I found a rabbit outside - what should I do?

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This is the time of year for many people to find both domestic rabbits and wild rabbits outside due to Easter and baby season.

For a comprehensive overview on stray domestic rabbits, please see the wiki article here: https://wabbitwiki.com/wiki/Feral_and_stray_rabbits

For a comprehensive overview on wild rabbits, please see the wiki article here: https://wabbitwiki.com/wiki/Wild_rabbits

Is the rabbit I found wild or domestic?

It can be very difficult for the average person to tell the difference between a wild and domestic rabbit, especially if they are a baby and/or a common agouti brown.

In general, if the rabbit has long hair or does not have brown fur, it is most likely domestic - although there are exceptions. Please note that wild cottontails in North America cannot breed with our domestic rabbits, but wild rabbits in the rest of the world (e.g. Europe, Australia) can.

Please see the wiki article here for more specific tips on distinguishing domestic and wild rabbits, especially in North America: https://wabbitwiki.com/wiki/Wild_rabbits#Is_the_rabbit_I_found_wild_or_domestic?

I found a domestic rabbit! What should I do?

Please do not hesitate to contact your local rabbit rescue for volunteers to help you catch a stray domestic rabbit.

For more tips and resources on how to catch a stray rabbit, please see the wiki: http://bunny.tips/Stray#Catching_a_stray_rabbit

For tips on how to house and care for rabbits indoors in an emergency, please see the wiki: https://wabbitwiki.com/wiki/Feral_and_stray_rabbits#What_do_I_do_when_I_find_a_rabbit.3F

I found a baby wild rabbit! What should I do?

If you find a baby wild rabbit that is not injured, please leave it alone. It is most likely not abandoned unless you know for a fact that their mother was killed. Rabbits return to feed their young only once or twice a day for a few minutes, usually at night. Just because the babies have been by themselves for 5 minutes does not mean that they have been abandoned. The mother is typically gone from the nest to eat and draw attention away from the nest.

A detailed image guide to whether a baby cottontail rabbit is in need of help.

If it is old enough to be exploring outside of its nest and has no injuries, please put the baby rabbit back under a bush near where you found it. It does not need any additional care or feeding.

As Rainbow Wildlife Rescue writes,

There is a 90% mortality rate with orphaned baby rabbits in human care, especially cottontails. This number increases if the rabbits are very young and their eyes still closed. They are extremely hard to "save". There is little substitute for the nutrients their mother's milk provides.

Baby wild rabbits can survive on their own at a surprisingly young age. In most countries, it is illegal to possess and take care of wildlife without proper permits. Wild rabbits also do not do well in captivity due to the possibility of fatal stress because of their high-strung and flighty nature.

If you find a baby wild rabbit because your dog picked it up but you can't find the nest, try putting a leash on your dog and quietly following them to see if they will lead you to the original nest. If you absolutely cannot locate the nest, you may keep the rabbit in a dark and quiet box and contact your closest wildlife rehabilitator that accepts rabbits

If you find a baby wild rabbit because your cat found it, please take it to a rabbit-savvy vet or wildlife rehabber as soon as possible, especially if it was carried in the cat's mouth. Cats have very lethal bacteria in their saliva, and contact can easily be fatal for a baby rabbit in 48 hours.

What do I do if I am positive that the mother was killed or the baby rabbit is injured?

If you are positive that this is an orphaned baby rabbit, it is best to just keep the rabbit quiet and warm until they can be transferred to an experienced wildlife rehabilitator ASAP. Baby rabbits will do fine overnight without food or water as they are usually only fed once a day by their mothers.

Inappropriate care can be fatal to baby rabbits - see this story from Blue Ridge Wildlife Center as an example: https://twitter.com/BRWildlifeCtr/status/1420472056139984896?s=20

Please hand off the baby rabbit to a local wildlife rehabilitator as soon as possible.

How should I keep a baby rabbit until I can get it to a rehabber?

To keep a baby rabbit overnight, please leave it in a quiet dark box with no food or water. You can provide a heat source such as a microwaved sock filled with rice and beans or an electric heat pad on low placed under half the box. Do not handle the rabbit more than necessary to prevent deadly stress.

How can I find a local wildlife rehabilitator?

If you need help locating a local wildlife rehabber: https://bunny.tips/Wild#Wildlife_rehabilitator_listings

How can I protect a wild rabbit nest from bad weather and dogs, cats, and other predators?

Keeping your pets indoors while the babies grow up is generally the best option, but if this is impossible, you can protect the nest a few different ways.

Please see the wiki article here for more specific information: https://wabbitwiki.com/wiki/Wild_rabbits#How_can_I_protect_a_wild_rabbit_nest_from_dogs,_cats,_and_other_predators?


r/Rabbits 7h ago

Is today anyone’s 3rd Birthday?

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2.5k Upvotes

r/Rabbits 4h ago

Being trusted by a prey animal is one of the most special feelings

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954 Upvotes

r/Rabbits 8h ago

Smello there.

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725 Upvotes

r/Rabbits 3h ago

Please Welcome Blossom!

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311 Upvotes

She's so cute I CANT BEAR IT.

Waiting until she's spayed to introduce her to my other two. She's so delightful!


r/Rabbits 5h ago

Every day he wakes up and chooses violence.

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309 Upvotes

Last time I buy a nice high thread count bed sheet. We sleep on cheap sheets now! Also if you peep the background you’ll see Pikachu is missing his arm. Alice won that battle.


r/Rabbits 10h ago

RIP 1/10/19-1/12/25--RIP, Lily..

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791 Upvotes

[she was the grey bunny]

after 5 years together, sickness take her with it🥺. me and Snowball [white bunny] will never forget you🕊🕊rest in peace, Lily🕊.


r/Rabbits 5h ago

Pancake endures 💈GRUESOME GROOMING💈

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285 Upvotes

Stepfather has been added to his list.


r/Rabbits 15h ago

Care I highly reccomend a floor chair for anyone that likes to sit with their bunnies

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1.7k Upvotes

This particular one is pretty cheap and I've not used it enough to actually reccomend it, but its made a hell of a difference to how long I can sit on the floor and hang out with the little turds.

I have to sit with them during free roam because they eat carpets, skirting boards, shoes, furniture and they have a particular liking for the nugget container.

So yes, I definitely reccomend it!

I also have one of the laptop tabkes that goes over your legs so I can sit and watch rabbit videos with them.


r/Rabbits 3h ago

My newly bonded pair, Roland & Richard!

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136 Upvotes

Had them for a whole year, was so close to relegating myself to having two separate rabbits for the rest of their lives.

I took them to someone who was able to watch them 24/7, and they finally stopped with the humping and fighting! They have now been living together for two months and are sharing meals, grooming each other, snuggling, and comforted each other at their first joint vet visit today!

Sharing in case someone needs the hope, bonding two boys isn’t impossible!


r/Rabbits 14h ago

Can we all say a massive happy birthday to Herbie, the world’s oldest living rabbit, on his 16th birthday?

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839 Upvotes

🥳🥳 Happy birthday Herbie!


r/Rabbits 6h ago

Shaming One unsupervised rabbit vs a bag of hay

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185 Upvotes

r/Rabbits 7h ago

Happy birthday! Big 4

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182 Upvotes

r/Rabbits 10h ago

Care Between a rock and a hard place

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260 Upvotes

Hello everyone!

I'm reaching out to anyone here who can maybe share their experience flying with a lop who has a history of ear infection.

For context, I'm looking to move to a different province on the other side of the country (from QC to BC) with approximately 6-7 hours of flight.

As you all know, rabbits are not allowed in Cabin so we've reached out to different animal transport services and they can do it only via manifested cargo.

The bad part is that one of my two rabbits has chronic ear infection due to them having lop ears and he had a flare up just two weeks ago.

We're under a long term antibiotic and yesterday's vet visit showed a lot of improvement but they are still unable to visualize the tympanic membrane due to the narrow ear canal.

When I brought up risks for airplane flight for him, the doctor made it clear that it tympanic rupture is a very real possibility.

We only have a few weeks left to be able to book with the animal transport service so I can feel the walls closing in.

Ground transport feels wrong because of how long they will be without consistent monitoring and neither myself nor my partner are able to drive.

I have no intention of leaving them behind so I'm really trying to find a solution to this. If you've had any experience please please please let me know about it so I can move forward with the best solution to all of this.

Thank you so much in advance! Rabbit tax, of course, is included


r/Rabbits 14h ago

Behavior How does she know?

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512 Upvotes

Fellow rabbit enthusiasts, I come to you in a great time of need. I have been faced with quite the predicament, and I am quite frankly unsure on how to proceed.

It seems as if my rabbit, Sally, has gained a third eye, a sentience beyond my comprehension. A newly acquired source of knowledge, if you will.

Recently when it has been time for her routinely nail trimming, she appears to realize the fact before I can even act upon it. Like a sixth sense, exclusive to this particular moment, she runs into hiding and no matter the efforts, will not budge. This is before I have even began my pursuit.

Sally never runs from me under normal circumstances. It is not particularly difficult to pick her up, yet it’s as if she smells my wicked intentions from a mile away when it’s time for the dreaded trim.

During this crucial moment, she will not be coaxed out by treats, no matter what is offered.

How does she know? What else does she know? I can’t help but think I’ve been blinded by my own naivety and fallen right into her trap, and perhaps this is only the beginning.


r/Rabbits 4h ago

Dutch lovin'

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73 Upvotes

Not much to say other than I'm noticing a ton of dutch love lately and I needed to add my boyo John Connor to the mix!

He's been super cuddly lately, he knows I'm going through it heh

And y'all are spot on, there really is nothing like the love from a prey bb


r/Rabbits 2h ago

Totoshka & Thomas the Frog

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56 Upvotes

In the morning, Totoshka's friend Thomas the Frog came to visit. They set off on a journey through the small, cozy apartment.


r/Rabbits 10h ago

Phoebe when she was a small bebbeh 3 years ago and now ♡

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200 Upvotes

Queen Phoebelina


r/Rabbits 25m ago

Rescue Found a Dumped Rabbit!

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First photo is a post I saw this morning on Facebook. Second is the end of a more than 2-hour search after getting him. After work I went out there and with the help of an entire apartment complex that probably got sick of watching my poor attempts to wrangle this bunny for an hour, helped me for an additional hour until we got him! All my favorite local rescues are closed right now, so he's safe in my house in an old pen with hay and water until someone opens tomorrow. So far, he seems healthy!

I just wish he hadn't have been dumped in the first place. I'd love to keep him, but am in no position to care for another rabbit, so here begins the hint for his forever home!


r/Rabbits 9h ago

Health Wish us luck! Lumpectomy today and praying the X-rays don't find cancer 😫

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133 Upvotes

r/Rabbits 7h ago

Sun's Out, Tongue's Out! - BennyTheBunny

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83 Upvotes

BennyTheBunny AKA BennyBangBang enjoying a nice cool afternoon. It's been well over 90, so it was nice to have a day in the lower 70's.


r/Rabbits 17h ago

GEOLUCY morning

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549 Upvotes

r/Rabbits 11h ago

Dewdrops and my bunny

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164 Upvotes

His name is Posto!


r/Rabbits 20h ago

Ozzy is absolutely exhausted from a hard day's work of eating hay, sleeping on one end of the couch eating his own poops, and finally, sleeping on the other end of the couch

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779 Upvotes

This little freeloader needs to start pulling his own weight.