One week and one day after bringing Honeybunny home from the farm at Cathy's Critters, she started behaving strangely. She began to dig in her cage and pull out large clumps of her own fur. We thought something was terribly wrong until we discovered a BIG surprise late Tuesday night on October 25.
Ruthie will tell you all about it:
At 10:00 at night Honeybunny had 6 baby bunnies. My mommy called out to my dad, "Rich, the rabbit had babies!" That's when I jumped out of bed and screamed, "Baby? Really? Babies?" I LOVE baby bunnies!
Ruthie found one of the bunnies on the floor by the cage. I guess it somehow got thrown out between the cage bars. Poor little thing! It seems fine, though. Another one was caught dangling between the grate bars at the bottom of the cage. Rich and I had to gently push it's fat belly between the bars. We were scared that we hurt the little thing, but it seems fine as well.
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| The new momma resting alongside her 6 babies.... |
We quickly looked around and found the unused litter box we had recently purchased and decided it would make a suitable nesting box. We lined the box with newspaper and towels. Honeybunny added her own fur that she had been pulling out all day. The fur that I had taken away from her in fear that she was swallowing it, I quickly retrieved from the trashcan and added to it to complete the nest. We carefully put the babies in and let mommy bunny sniff them and rearrange the bedding. Then, she laid down next to the babies and rested for awhile. Later, she got up and ate and ate and ate and drank tons of water. It was an exciting and tiring night for us all!
