whoopsies...you found some baby bunnies. now what?

i'm going to tell you what every other website has probably told you to do already: let them be. more than likely their mom is still attending to them. the mother will leave the babies during the day, and come back at night to feed them, so she is probably still around.

what you can do to check and make sure though, is to take some string, and make an X over where you found the babies. cover them back up with grass, or whatever was over them to begin with, and make the X with some string on top. the next day, if the string is moved, mom came back at night to take care of her babies. if the string is not moved, she might have abandoned them. you could wait one more night to see, but in our case, the bunnies were getting skinny, and we knew we had to act fast.

the 4 babies were found in our garden while my husband was weeding. we were getting ready to start up our garden again after the winter and luckily, he saw these little babies before raking them!

we did the X trick, but by the next day when it hadn't moved, and we checked on the babies to see how they were doing, they were getting really skinny. we knew we had to bring them in and get some food into them!

in the next blog post, i will talk about what i fed them after doing a ton of research:

feeding baby cottontails