My new little friend.
AgitatedRiot
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My new little friend. I almost sprayed my new friend with weedkiller. Move friend to another part of the yard and he went back to where I was going to spray. Skipping those weeds.
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OMG He is so cute and so lucky
Ooh, a rare, long eared, tailless mini-rat.
Good. That weedkiller isn't good for your yard or you anyway.
Please be careful. That there is a ferocious beast with an insatiable hunger for wires and cables.
I had a pet white rabbit. they can be house trained to use a litter box, but they are constant boop machines so when they get older they just lay in the litter box.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/5sqqZSeu6pcoDHXJ7
Edit: It's supposed to be an organic weedkiller but didn't want to take a chance.
You chose wisely.
Be careful. Cottontails scare easily and they can, quite literally, scare themselves to death. That one looks old enough to be away from mom (wouldn't leave the nest otherwise). My mom is a licensed wildlife rehabber who specializes in squirrels and cottontails...we see these guys all the time.
I had an indoor pet (lop ear) rabbit once and she and my cat would play together. But once she almost committed suicide and burned off her whiskers by biting the electrical wires to the refrigerator!
I have a lot of different friends outside. He'll have the same chance as the rest of my friends. Mr or Mrs. Snake under the front porch. The family of red tail Hawks. Or the family of foxes and coyotes. So I don't really know if my friend will make it,
Beware the Killer Rabbit of Carrbannog!*
Tiny but fierce... adorable too.
Sometimes mother rabbits leave their little ones in a spot they deem safe, it's not a nest per se, but sort of a "safe" area the parent feels comfortable that it can leave the young while they forage once they are old enough to start exploring... like the next step between hiding in the nest and full out exploring without supervision.
Generally they (the baby rabbits) freeze and won't run away from that spot (up to a certain age), but if for some reason they are driven from that area by some animal or loud noises, they usually return there when it's safe, because that's where they expect to meet up with the parent... At least that's the observation with the rabbits around here.
Usually, it's not a good idea to pick them up as you don't want to freak the parent out with human smells (I'm not calling you smelly)... definitely don't put them in your mouth or juggle them for a TikTok or anything (they are adorable when you juggle them, but they definitely will pee if you put them in your mouth)...(or so I've heard), sometimes if they are very stressed, young rabbits will abandon their babies if they smell human on them (I wonder if it's because they are like "fine let the humans feed you unappreciative little #$&§+@!" or if they think the offspring ate a human and they abandoning them out of fear)... if you find spots in the grass/weeds with little cereal bowl sized areas tamped down that's a sign rabbits were there... especially if there is a baby rabbit or two there.
It was definitely a good call to not spray the area with weed killer... also check other areas for those little tamped down spots before you spray any pesticides or weed killers, now that you know bunnies are around.
And remember, if you wish to defeat the Killer Rabbit of Carrbannog*, you must possess the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch... just know that your quest is not over yet... for next you must vanquish The Black Beast of Arrrghhh... unless the animator is still dead... in which case you are good to go.
*A great bit from Monty Python and The Holy Grail... (in case you are not versed in Pythonese).
*Caerbannog
I walk my lawn before I mow. For such little ones and turtles and other small animals. This one looks like it knows what to eat it's the other predators that also know what to eat. Like my early morn visitor below. One of the notorious fox gangs.
Fox gangs... that's the problem when schools don't have good after-school activities... the foxes get bored and join a gang and the next thing you know they are having a dance off in your yard with the Sharks.
That conjured up an image of Tucker Carlson dressed like Marlon Brando in The Wild One.
Just lovely!
Well, looks like Mama came home last night and cleaned their little home. My friend is safely tucked inside.
Awww...
Too cute :-) Thanks for the update.
best message that she still took the little on back home!
That's awesome that mom came home! Your friend shouldn't be there long...it looks nearly ready to go. We currently have...I think nine? Two different litters that came in last weekend from yard cleanup incidents.
Awe they're so Fluffy
Unless I'm misunderstanding the red phrase above (very good chance), Mr. Gilliam (81 yo) is still alive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Gilliam
Of course at 81, who knows what the future may hold?
Yes, (as I write this) He's still alive, but in the movie he played "the animator"... and that's a reference to the line where the characters are fleeing the animated Black Beast of Arrrghh... Brother Maynard is eaten and... "As the horrendous Black Beast lunged forward, escape for Arthur and his knights seemed hopeless, when suddenly, the animator suffered a fatal heart attack... The cartoon peril was no more. The quest for the Holy Grail could continue..."
The real animator escaped unscathed to go on to create great films about ductwork, such as Brazil, but the character he played was no more... that animator was an ex animator, he'd ceased to be, he was a stiff, bereft of life... if he wasn't nailed to the perch, he'd be pushing up daisies.
Sorry, that was another Python reference.
You are probably going to pooh-pooh this idea, but you've got a perfect opportunity to start a bunny army... your enemies will never see it coming... they'll be enchanted by the overwhelming adorableness and by then it'll be too late... this is especially effective if your enemies are the Carrot People of Karrotopolis.. They're very annoying, but full of vitamin A.
And the answer of course is; "anyone who is 81 years old".
It's kinda hard not to see the light at the end of the tunnel at that age. And "yes", it's a train.
Non-complaint; Mom caught the first rat with the mink trap, didn't even have to kill it as apparently it had had a stroke.
I always loved the way that shot was handled, almost as though Gilliam employed his animation techniques to the live footage of himself stiffening and then flipping backwards in his chair, his legs extended in the air like that of a dead insect.
I remember that George Harrison (my favorite Beatle's) saved the financial production of the Monty Python's Life of Brian.
I always read Mcgyver's comments, because I need to laugh a lot everyday!
McGyver's comments here are a part of my therapy and are a strong counterpart to the sad loyalist comments of some of us...
Have a nice day!