Smart Bunnies

Rabbits are not rodents. They are lagomorphs. Other lagomorphs include hares and pikas.

A well cared for house rabbit that has been spayed or neutered early in life has a life expectancy of 8 to 12 years of age. Rabbits living at the property located just outside 2105 Santa Rosa (RE: The guest house)- don’t fair so well

The gestation period of a rabbit is about 31 days; a rabbit can have up to 13 litters a year with every litter being between 2-6 kits. A group of rabbits is called a herd. My dogs help to thin that herd….

Harsh...

A few weeks back we had three adorable little "kits" and now there is one.

Although I can only confirm the death of one, I suspect the other missing bunny suffered the same fate, and I did interrupt the dog chewing a ball of fur which may have been a little bunny leg or hand.

A few months ago we had a several bunnies that disappeared one by one, again I'm not able to confirm more than one death (as a dog brought the little bunny corpse to me while I was laying in bed...which will get you up quickly as there is not only disgust involved in handling the limp body of a little tiny bunny, but the sadness of seeing something so amazingly cute lifeless

Here's the thing, I have no idea how the bunnies are being killed. I suspected a cat we have whom I have always thought to be sinister, I can't pinpoint the actual killer. The fact is there could be several murders, they may even be working in pairs or teams.

The remaining bunny is absolutely adorable, the girls like to visit him/her, and so I have been trying to avoid finding a little severed bunny head under the swing set - as I really can't afford that therapy - and the girls might find it- but I haven't known how to give the little guys more protection.

We have a St. Francis statue in the yard, and although I really don't believe in saints per se, it seemed worth a try. I put the chipped plaster statue in the enclosure with the bunnies and to date- to the best of my knowledge, there has been no bunny death.

So this got me to thinking. Maybe this last bunny is smarter that the other bunnies- an intellectual survival of the fittest.

Since I can't catch the bunnies and they are clearly breeding, this above intelligent bunny will breed and in about 13 generations I could have some really smart bunnies.