Peter Rabbit

A few birds later after the opossum incident we stumbled upon Peter Rabbit. He was a baby rabbit that one of our cats had plucked from his nest. I remember going outside and hearing this thing scream. Until this point I didn't know that sound could come out of any animal, let alone one so small. Just as always, I promptly set out to find this poor creature and attempt to "save" it. I don't quite recall whether Peter was lying in the grass or if I had to wrestle a cat for him but somehow he made it into our house.

We had a large cat kennel that we deemed as a makeshift rabbit den. For several days we fed this bunny and he seemed to be doing all right. Then one day he decided he was strong enough to explore and he slipped through the bars of the kennel and out into our house. We're not sure if it was the fall from the kennel (it was sitting up on a TV tray) or whether our cat got him but somehow this poor little bunny damaged his equilibrium. From that point on he could no longer hop or sit up and with in a day or two Peter was no longer with us.