I’m a horrible dog owner and often times just let the dogs out to run in our backyard instead of taking them for a walk. It’s too difficult for just me to walk both of them by myself and we have a pretty big backyard that they can run full speed all over. Yesterday I let them out and they kept nosing around this one area by the “garden”, nothing is actually growing there except for weeds because the dogs would just destroy it. So today I let them out and they immediately went to the same spot again, I went over to look and I saw a pile of leaves / grass actually moving. I freaked out for a second thinking it was a snake, not that I’m particularly afraid of snakes but I just didn’t feel like dealing with one in my backyard. So I get the dogs away from the garden and I see something start to crawl out from under the grass, it was a baby bunny! I managed to get the dogs in and upon further inspection I noticed that the mother actually built a nest (covered by her fur, grass and leaves) and there seems to be several baby bunnies in it!
I did a quick Google search and found out that its common for rabbits to build their nests right in the open and that its okay to look at them (they aren’t like birds that if disturbed the mother won’t come back). So for right now I’m just going to keep an eye on them. I know for sure there’s a mother rabbit that as of the other night was perfectly fine and there is no need for me to intervene. Another cool fact is that the mother rabbit only comes back to the nest at dawn and dusk only nursing for a few minutes at a time. I might try to keep an eye out for her tonight to see what she does.
In other news, this means I’m going to have to actually start walking the dogs.