Baby Rabbit Accident

I was on the phone talking with one of my sister-in-laws who lives in Isabela Province yesterday. She said that the electricity just came on that day after several days of having no electricity because of the typhoons. Isabela was badly hit by the previous two typhoons that ravaged the country one week after the other. Thank God that they are safe and sound in spite of the calamity that hit them and that is more important than worldly things. Other provinces are still submerged in water so the residents could not go back to their homes. It may take a couple of months before some residents could go back to their own homes. Anyway, while I was on the phone with my sister-in-law, I heard a loud crying sound from the rabbitry. Every body went to see what it was all about naturally. Everyone thought that a rat may have gotten inside the rabbitry and is biting the baby rabbits. That's because we've seen some rats around recently although the neighbor's cat has been catching them.

 Anyway, it turned out that one of the baby rabbits caught its foot on the door of the cage because it was not closed properly. The kit must have been jumping around as usual when the accident happened. This caused the baby rabbit to cry out loud. After extricating the leg that was caught on the door, the baby rabbit was OK, no limp so far. It's just that the experience must have stressed the baby rabbit and the others as well. In fact, the black buck is having diarrhea today and I am attributing this to the stress that they all experienced yesterday. We're keeping a close watch on him and we're restricting his diet until his stool goes back to normal. All the other rabbits are doing okay so far and the baby rabbits are growing very fast. They really could eat a lot of greens specially the vines and leaves of sweet potatoes that we feed them. I just cleaned out their cages and after one hour, they made a lot of poop again. They're a regular poop machine but I like it because I could use their manure for the garden.