Thread 5008919

Found a sick bunny on the side of the road when out jogging this morning. What would you do in this situation? It was just sitting there, at first i thought it was dead, but it was still breathing. I couldn't see any injuries so i assume it is sick. I didn't want to touch it of course, but i feel bad just leaving it there. I don't own a gun to put an end to its misery. Right now i feel like the only option is shrugging it off as part of nature.

I don't think i have the guts to find a large rock, drag it over there, and kill the bunny with it. And i literally can't think of anything else to do with it.

>>5008919 (OP)
rabbits do that. They just sit there until they decide you're a threat and then they run 50 feet really fast and then sit there again.

they're not smart animals.

>>5008921
But i was standing right next to it. Like, 50cm or so.

>>5008923
>Like, 50cm or so.
what's that, like 20 amerifeet away?

>>5008937
Pretty much, yes. I was standing right next to it, about 20 feet away.

>>5008919 (OP)
If it were me I'd kidnap the bunny. A couple of days of food water and rest might save it. If not, then there's no harm done.

>>5008937
It's 50"
>>5008919 (OP)
If you saw nothing else physically it might have been sick or poisoned by eating something it shouldn't have, though then they usually go in their burrows. When they are lethargic out in the open in my experience It's usually myxomathosis but this has pretty clear physical symptoms as well, like gooey eyes and sometimes rough patches of fur

>>5008919 (OP)
Rabbits are prey animals. If it is exhibiting symptoms like this, it's more than likely past the point of return and is just waiting out its miserable death.

Prey animals don't show illness or weakness until they can't hide it anymore cause it would single them out for predation.

>>5008976
>>5008985
Here's a photograph, busy day. It was almost still, no reaction to my presence at all. Only when taking a very close look i saw that it was breathing.

>>5009096
>>5009097
If you take it in, just remember, it's not human. My dad found a bunny like that while mowing the lawn oneday, and asked if I wanted to try and revive it. I did. But I ended up killing it in a week. It was springtime and one night I had the window open, and the 10 degree change in temperature in my room was too stressful.

>>5009096
I'm not going to argue with folks that there is a chance of you being able to save it. Food water shelter safety.
But I just want you to be prepared. When prey animals start exhibiting signs of injury or sickness it's often very late stage because of how they hide it from predators.

Low odds doesn't mean don't help if you can help.


I found this dipshit dying in sub zero temps in my front yard. My chickens were herded around him just yelling for me.

He ended up, after a few hours, becoming coherent again and more agitated over being caged.
So let him go.


I gota bird who looks similar to him who let's me get really close to it outside. Almost feed it by hand. I like to think it is him but I don't think birds work that way.

Try your luck at saving a life or easing a death.

I raise poultry to kill and eat for food. I still find life sacred and go out of my way.

I just put a call duck down 2 days ago from a hawk attack. His entire side was all broken up. Leg. Wing. Neck.

Anytime you can ease suffering you should man. Blah blah blah something about god giving us the power of whatever you need to hear to just do right in the moment regardless of how hard it is.

Try your luck.

Let it go if it recovers.

>>5009096
Maybe a bit late but is there a wildlife rescue near you and have you called them?

>>5008919 (OP)
>>5009096
>>5009097
you must give off gay herbivore energy so it just wasn't afraid of you