3 domestic rabbits escaped, what can i do?

kizzie_nikita

So, i need ideas.. our next door neighbor has like 10 rabbits,earlier about 4pm we saw that that 3 have escaped (they live in the garden) We told them and she said shed get the man to go get them.. 30 mins later no ones gone to get them..

This was nearly 5 hours ago, it's going to at least 0Degress outside tonight, these 3 rabbits are babies, i just saw that one is still out & i not seen the couple make any effort to go look/collect them.

They're escaped to a grassy area, quite large, surrounded by houses, with atleast 3 cats that roam the field at night. There's also roads near by.

I rang the RSPCA and they told me they won't get involved unless the animals have been out of their homes for more than 24hrs.

I don't think these baby rabbits will survive the night, no where to hide with the cats around aswell.

Is there anything i can do?

spacey2012

A fox will smell them from over 2 miles away down wind.
I would scoop them up and take them in until they showed up.

iammumtoone

Do you get on well with next door? Could you mention it again? Probably best not to say anything about them not getting them earlier perhaps just say you have seen them again so you are letting them know they have escaped again.

geri1965_2

Why can't you go and get them?

iammumtoone

geri1965 wrote: »

Why can't you go and get them?

I don't suppose the OP has anywhere to keep them if they do.

geri1965_2

iammumtoone wrote: »

I don't suppose the OP has anywhere to keep them if they do.

Keep them in the house until the neighbour gets home.

Britain didn't win the war with that kind of defeatist attitude.

PasturesNew

iammumtoone wrote: »

I don't suppose the OP has anywhere to keep them if they do.

Box in the bath.

spacey2012

A fox will kill all 3 straight away as it = 3 meals, not 1 meal and two that might be there later.
So they need taking in, just about everywhere has a local fox these days.
They much prefer rabbit to cats.

kizzie_nikita

This is my problem.

When we told next door at 4pm they were out, she seemed quite angry that i told her they had got out (we've not lived here long, and we're not exact neighbours as we live in a flat near them and haven't spoken before.

I could get a torch and try find them in the field (one was in the car park) and let them stay in the bathroom for the night?

I was going to try and find them, put them in the cat carrier and somehow lift them back into their garden.

I have no problem letting them stay in the house for the night, it's really upsetting me the whole thing, that and the neighbors don't seem to care at all, how after 6 hours could you not notice you're down 3 rabbits?

I haven't seen 2 of them since it got dark, and i saw the other about 40 mins ago, can't see him now..

Rovver125

Did you manage to catch them?

Robisere

There should be no concern about the cold, how do you think rabbits live outdoors? Some fox or cat will eat well tonight, I would imagine. If the keeper of these rabbits is not concerned, why would you be?

Last night something contacted the underside of my car as I traveled in the dark between 2 villages in my rural area. A car some 100 yards in front must have already gone over it, I saw his brake lights flash. It made a hell of a bang and I did not see it until the last minute, it was just lying in the road.

On my return, I pulled over to walk across and see what it was. In the dark, I trod in something soft. That was a dead fox. What I had hit was the dead body of a small Deer, by the appearance of the 2 animals it seemed that the fox was chasing the deer. Both animals were heavily damaged, having been struck some time ago by a large vehicle, probably one of the dozens of trucks on the way to a local construction site.

At home, I had the messy job of cleaning animal remains from my shoe. This morning I had to pressure wash the underside of my car.

The result will be some well-fed crows, magpies, stoats, weasels, rats and probably another fox. What is death for some, is life for another. We get quite a lot of road kill here in rural Lincolnshire, but not always as large as that.

That's life in nature.