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Monday, September 15th, 2008
Little bunny foo foo
So, here is exactly how my day started.
Was almost ready for work when I decided to take 10 minutes to let Emmy and Joey out to potty. I only went down halfway dressed, thinking it would be a quick trip downstairs and then back up again to finish getting ready.
I noticed neither of the dogs were coming back inside very quickly, or at least not half as quick as any other morning. I went to the patio door to look out and noticed Emmy lounging in the grass and Joey eating grass. Actually he was having a hay day nosing his way in the ground. I called for both of them to come in. Emmy looked up at me, Joey didn't stop for one moment and I just knew something was up. I knew it wasn't going to be pretty, yes, he found a nest of baby rabbits. I yelled his name, screamed for him to come in, hollered COOKIE! Anything to get him to take his attention away, even Emmy started to bark at him, giving him her "you are in so much trouble" bark. He turned at looked at me with the nastiest and grossest dead, gutted baby rabbit. OMG, I just about lost it.
Finally, after saying, screaming, COOKIE for about the 4th time and probably woke up half the neighborhood doing it, he dropped it and happily ran inside.
So, now I have the dilemma of what to do every time I or anyone in the family needs to let him outside to relieve himself. We have been leashing him to keep him away from the scene of the crime. I am just sick about all of it. I have heard stories from friends about their dogs or cats having this experience of rodent snacks.
I stopped in at my Vet office today and asked what they thought as far as his health and they just recommended I watch for any vomiting or diarrhea. He has been fine all day so my next thought has been. HOW MANY other times has he done this and I just didn't know????? EWWWW....
Letting him out will never be the same now.
sigh.
Little bunny foo foo
So, here is exactly how my day started.
Was almost ready for work when I decided to take 10 minutes to let Emmy and Joey out to potty. I only went down halfway dressed, thinking it would be a quick trip downstairs and then back up again to finish getting ready.
I noticed neither of the dogs were coming back inside very quickly, or at least not half as quick as any other morning. I went to the patio door to look out and noticed Emmy lounging in the grass and Joey eating grass. Actually he was having a hay day nosing his way in the ground. I called for both of them to come in. Emmy looked up at me, Joey didn't stop for one moment and I just knew something was up. I knew it wasn't going to be pretty, yes, he found a nest of baby rabbits. I yelled his name, screamed for him to come in, hollered COOKIE! Anything to get him to take his attention away, even Emmy started to bark at him, giving him her "you are in so much trouble" bark. He turned at looked at me with the nastiest and grossest dead, gutted baby rabbit. OMG, I just about lost it.
Finally, after saying, screaming, COOKIE for about the 4th time and probably woke up half the neighborhood doing it, he dropped it and happily ran inside.
So, now I have the dilemma of what to do every time I or anyone in the family needs to let him outside to relieve himself. We have been leashing him to keep him away from the scene of the crime. I am just sick about all of it. I have heard stories from friends about their dogs or cats having this experience of rodent snacks.
I stopped in at my Vet office today and asked what they thought as far as his health and they just recommended I watch for any vomiting or diarrhea. He has been fine all day so my next thought has been. HOW MANY other times has he done this and I just didn't know????? EWWWW....
Letting him out will never be the same now.
sigh.
I used to work at a kennel for years and saw many disgusting and smelly things but this was the worse thing I ever dealt with. I was gagging the whole time I cleaned it up--it smelled retched. I was upset with her eating the nasty thing but even more upset with her making me clean up the mess.
Why mama bunnies have their babies in the worse places--who knows?? Hope you get the problem resolved without the above problem and hope the baby bunny problem goes away soon too.
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Good luck with the baby bunnies. I would go out there and check the nest to see if there are more or if the mom has moved them. A friend of mine had a nest right next to their pool and they have two dogs, but did leave them alone. They blend in so easily and DON'T MOVE so it is really hard to spot them.
Yes watch for the vomiting or diarrhea...no fun to clean that up for sure.
I am going to check into that fox urine too! As we have had a groundhog digging his burrow in our yard the past couple of years!! We haven't seen him this summer so maybe he has moved on...I HOPE!