Babies Everywhere! Day 1

Okay, so I'm going to skip ahead a few boring months until August 7th. We had been at school for training and running errands. When we got home I was heading up to get the mower and my husband and son were going to work in the garden. As I walked up to the building next to the rabbit hutch I noticed ALOT of rabbit fur on the ground. My first thought was that something had broke the cage and killed one of the rabbits because something had gotten my Mom's duck a few weeks earlier. As I got closer I could see something wiggling in the grass...I screamed but then realized it wasn't a snake or rat but a newborn rabbit! As I got closer there were several more in the cage and on the ground. Oreo, mommy rabbit, was laying down and panting. I called for my husband and son to come over and we started getting the ones off the ground and putting them back in the cage with momma. There were 9 babies altogether but unfortunately, 2 were already dead.

I hurried down to the house to get a box and something to cushion the babies. I knew we would have to separate the babies from the daddy so I grabbed an older cage that we used for Oreo and Butterscotch when we first got them. I was a nervous wreck because I hadn't known that Oreo was pregnant and definitely wasn't expecting to find babies on the ground.

I also knew we shouldn't be touching the babies but since we had to get them off the ground anyway we just went ahead and put them in a box filled with wood shavings and put them in the smaller cage with Oreo. It was very hot so we took them down to the house and put them in the laundry room where is was quiet. Oreo was very nervous and kept stepping on the babies...I fear she won't be a good mother.

Oreo was very cramped in the small cage so I drug a big dog kennel out of the building later that night and lined it with newspaper and put in her litter box then transferred her and the box of babies to it. I draped it with towels for privacy and put them all in my dining room. I was terrified I would get up in the morning and all the babies would be dead...either from Oreo hurting them or just not caring for them. Needless to say, it was a long night and I didn't sleep much.