*This post is graphic. It's real. It's our crazy wild animal life.*
We are in bunny hell.
Last night I ended up getting up and finding the enclosure to our cat door so that I could let Stella out of the bedroom but she couldn't get out of the house.
Today was a gorgeous day and in the late afternoon I set out to mow the front yard (FYI: Andy is severely allergic to grass and many trees and is currently ill because of this). I was a wreck about the baby bunnies. Andy once told me a story of a time when he was a young boy and mowed over a bunny hole and all the bunnies died. It was traumatic for him and knowing that we had/have babies in our yard was rattling my brain. I slowly mowed the perimeter of the yard and then moved on to the strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street. I was looking for bunnies and thinking about stopping and getting Andy to come out and check the yard when ... I ran over one of the babies. All I saw was a baby hop up after I went over it. I immediately stopped and reached for the baby and it hopped so I called for Andy. He came out and checked it and told me I had (in his words) "chopped off it's ears and tail!" I was freaking out asking Andy why they hide low in the grass and would he have done the same, etc. Andy moved the baby over to the mulch where Lilly began to play with it and I walked over to the old bunny hole in the yard and started feeling around to make sure this wouldn't happen again when ... "EEK" I stepped on another baby (they scream a high pitched scream) with my foot!!! I quickly lifted my foot and the bunny hopped off toward our house.
It was at this time that Andy said he should mow because he has "spidey senses" and I do not. The mower was nowhere near the bunnies. I had left it near the driveway. I went to sit on the porch with Lilly and process what was going on when Andy started up the mower. He pushed it one foot when I saw a baby bunny fly up into the air. I ran inside screaming with Lilly behind me. She said, "They dead Mommy?" and I said, "No Lilly they're all alive!" and she said, "Yes Mommy they all awive alwight!" After a few minutes of trying to gather myself I stepped onto the porch and Andy looked at me and told me it was decapitated. I kid you not.
In five minutes time I had mowed over one baby bunny, stepped on another, and Andy had mowed over and killed a third.
I ended up watching Andy carefully mow the rest of the yard. At one point I felt like we should check the grass carefully and asked him to turn off the mower. We walked the rest of the yard and again, "EEK!" I stepped on one that was in the line of the mower. We moved it to the mulch and then we knew they were all accounted for and Andy finished mowing.
Here is the one that I hit with the mower. Notice the ear :-(
Here is the other one that I stepped (lightly) on.
Can you believe this? I cannot. Horrible.
Happy Ending: Andy and Lilly went out to get dinner tonight and when they came home they saw the mother bunny nursing one of the babies in our yard!! Andy said he saw the white of the belly and the feet kicking. He placed the second bunny nearby so the mom would nurse that one as well.
We are in bunny hell.
Last night I ended up getting up and finding the enclosure to our cat door so that I could let Stella out of the bedroom but she couldn't get out of the house.
Today was a gorgeous day and in the late afternoon I set out to mow the front yard (FYI: Andy is severely allergic to grass and many trees and is currently ill because of this). I was a wreck about the baby bunnies. Andy once told me a story of a time when he was a young boy and mowed over a bunny hole and all the bunnies died. It was traumatic for him and knowing that we had/have babies in our yard was rattling my brain. I slowly mowed the perimeter of the yard and then moved on to the strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street. I was looking for bunnies and thinking about stopping and getting Andy to come out and check the yard when ... I ran over one of the babies. All I saw was a baby hop up after I went over it. I immediately stopped and reached for the baby and it hopped so I called for Andy. He came out and checked it and told me I had (in his words) "chopped off it's ears and tail!" I was freaking out asking Andy why they hide low in the grass and would he have done the same, etc. Andy moved the baby over to the mulch where Lilly began to play with it and I walked over to the old bunny hole in the yard and started feeling around to make sure this wouldn't happen again when ... "EEK" I stepped on another baby (they scream a high pitched scream) with my foot!!! I quickly lifted my foot and the bunny hopped off toward our house.
It was at this time that Andy said he should mow because he has "spidey senses" and I do not. The mower was nowhere near the bunnies. I had left it near the driveway. I went to sit on the porch with Lilly and process what was going on when Andy started up the mower. He pushed it one foot when I saw a baby bunny fly up into the air. I ran inside screaming with Lilly behind me. She said, "They dead Mommy?" and I said, "No Lilly they're all alive!" and she said, "Yes Mommy they all awive alwight!" After a few minutes of trying to gather myself I stepped onto the porch and Andy looked at me and told me it was decapitated. I kid you not.
In five minutes time I had mowed over one baby bunny, stepped on another, and Andy had mowed over and killed a third.
I ended up watching Andy carefully mow the rest of the yard. At one point I felt like we should check the grass carefully and asked him to turn off the mower. We walked the rest of the yard and again, "EEK!" I stepped on one that was in the line of the mower. We moved it to the mulch and then we knew they were all accounted for and Andy finished mowing.
Here is the one that I hit with the mower. Notice the ear :-(
Here is the other one that I stepped (lightly) on.
Can you believe this? I cannot. Horrible. Happy Ending: Andy and Lilly went out to get dinner tonight and when they came home they saw the mother bunny nursing one of the babies in our yard!! Andy said he saw the white of the belly and the feet kicking. He placed the second bunny nearby so the mom would nurse that one as well.
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