Last night one of the cage door latches didnt get hooked right, at least that's what we are hoping! We do have a neighbor who is kind of off.. sees and hears things. I hope he didnt unlatch it? But it is possible to have not latched it right because it was dark. We had the bunnies inside for a few hours playing with them. (Lots are getting homes)
Woke up at 6am to find all the bunnies (but 1) and a mama got out. Took us an hour to round them up.
We found all but one until about a half hour ago. It was found in my dads yard next to my father's paving equipment. It was bleeding from a hole on its neck the size of a bb maybe a little bigger? And also bleeding from its nose. Dont know how long its been dead but rigamortis was set in.
What would kill a rabbit then leave it there? I was thinking maybe it fought with a wild rabbit then had a heart attack? Or a domestic cat bit it then it had a heart attack? I highly doubt it could evade a fisher and then lay there basically in the open and not be found? A fisher wouls put more than 1 hole in it too i would assume? We know it was only 1 hole because we sprayed it with the hose to see what happened.
My wife seems to think fisher cat, but even if we interrupted it, wouldn't an animal drag it off? I cant think of anything it could have impaled itself on.
We feel horrible!!!! We plan on replacing those latches today. Like i said i hope even tho we feel bad that it was our error vs the neighbor. I would think if it was done on purpose all the doors would have been opened. Tho locks might have to be an option in the future.
-- Tue Sep 13, 2016 8:34 am --
This is the latch im talking about. At night its hard to see in the back yard if we dont have a flash light. I took this pic with the latch like this to show what im talking about.
-- Tue Sep 13, 2016 8:38 am --
These are the ones we plan on getting to replace those spring eyelet latches. Even at night, its fool proof.
I honestly feel like crying. Bad enough some end up as food but they arent petrified or in pain when they go.. so mad at ourselves.. we both were out there when we put them back, so we both missed it.. <br /><br /> -- Tue Sep 13, 2016 8:49 am -- <br /><br /> One of my fathers workers just thought of something. My father has a wood pile near where it was found. Some of that wood does have nails in it?
So hard to know what happened? I just know it was 1 hole, on the side but towards the top of its neck and it was bleeding from there and a little from the nose
Either way we are going to us the rabbit in a have a heart trap, if it was something we dont want it coming back to attack the cages
Woke up at 6am to find all the bunnies (but 1) and a mama got out. Took us an hour to round them up.
We found all but one until about a half hour ago. It was found in my dads yard next to my father's paving equipment. It was bleeding from a hole on its neck the size of a bb maybe a little bigger? And also bleeding from its nose. Dont know how long its been dead but rigamortis was set in.
What would kill a rabbit then leave it there? I was thinking maybe it fought with a wild rabbit then had a heart attack? Or a domestic cat bit it then it had a heart attack? I highly doubt it could evade a fisher and then lay there basically in the open and not be found? A fisher wouls put more than 1 hole in it too i would assume? We know it was only 1 hole because we sprayed it with the hose to see what happened.
My wife seems to think fisher cat, but even if we interrupted it, wouldn't an animal drag it off? I cant think of anything it could have impaled itself on.
We feel horrible!!!! We plan on replacing those latches today. Like i said i hope even tho we feel bad that it was our error vs the neighbor. I would think if it was done on purpose all the doors would have been opened. Tho locks might have to be an option in the future.
-- Tue Sep 13, 2016 8:34 am --
This is the latch im talking about. At night its hard to see in the back yard if we dont have a flash light. I took this pic with the latch like this to show what im talking about.
-- Tue Sep 13, 2016 8:38 am --
These are the ones we plan on getting to replace those spring eyelet latches. Even at night, its fool proof.
I honestly feel like crying. Bad enough some end up as food but they arent petrified or in pain when they go.. so mad at ourselves.. we both were out there when we put them back, so we both missed it.. <br /><br /> -- Tue Sep 13, 2016 8:49 am -- <br /><br /> One of my fathers workers just thought of something. My father has a wood pile near where it was found. Some of that wood does have nails in it?
So hard to know what happened? I just know it was 1 hole, on the side but towards the top of its neck and it was bleeding from there and a little from the nose
Either way we are going to us the rabbit in a have a heart trap, if it was something we dont want it coming back to attack the cages