advice needed. ( semi urgently)

[yamahonkawazuki]

i consider myself an "animal lover" in other words i try my damndest to see that no harm comes to them. well yesterday night i heard a LOUD squeek, and sure enough my cat had a VERY juvenile rabbit in its mouth thing was not even 3 inchesa long. animal is unhurt at the moment. no evident injury, no blood scrapes or punctures. BUT mama is nowhere to be found. i going to have to foster this thing, until i can figure out what to do. its eyes are still sealed shut, no teeth, etc. i assuming this thing has NOT been alive for very long, ive purchased whole milk, and a small eye dropper apparatus to feed it. any ide as to feeding intervals?, AND what to do with it,

[frankieG]

ahaha i can help on this...if you are up to it.  the rabbit needs to be fed every four hours.  the best mix is whole milk, goat milk it better with a couple of table spoons of REAL butter.  if you go to the pet store they may have juvenile rabbit formula. personally i would turn it over to a shelter but ask if they are going to put it down or not.  if you are keeping it you will need approx 12 weeks of feeding and gradual hard food introduction

[Jay_wolf]

Yea Frankies Bang on the money , one of my kittens was Rejected by its mum , and i had to raise till it could eat , and it was regular 4 hours feeding of a speical Car milk , but thats because that normal milk makes them ill ,

Im not sure what a baba rabbit needs , but id imagine its got a High fat content , *Probs why Frankie Mentioned the butter* as a cats milk and animal milk is very very rich to gain the energy to Grow

i had a house rabbit , loved sleeping on my bed and humping my foot

[ben2go]

Save the rabbit and eat the cat.Ohhhh wait!I ain't in Cambodia any more,so that would be animal cruelty.DAMMMMMMM!Just put the cat out side and stir fry it when no ones around. 

[yamahonkawazuki]

its about this size ( with a bit more fur) but right now, all i have is whole milk

[bubba zanetti]

Wow dude you have feminine hands 

[yamahonkawazuki]

  ↑↑↑↑ not me 

[GeeP]

Awwww!  You have a pet bunny now!

(If YOU can survive the next 12 weeks of 4-hour feeding intervals.)   

[frankieG]

a new gstwin mascot?

[yamahonkawazuki]

Awwww!  You have a pet bunny now!

(If YOU can survive the next 12 weeks of 4-hour feeding intervals.)   

day three. he? was breathing hard yesterday, but today was not. i was like aww shaZam!, little thing didnt make it  but no its doin fine so far. as small as it is, a feeding is around4 or 5 drops from  an aspirator, (kinda like an earwax tool/bulb), will keep yallupdated

[Jay_wolf]

Your a Mumma now 

[yamahonkawazuki]

one ugly one at that   

[Teek]

You can probably feed it a little more, as much as it will take, and more often while you are awake. I'd imagine they have a fast metabolism and really need the nutrition. Goat's milk is much better, it's richer and isn't as full of hormones and crap, and is less allergenic. Pet stores have milk replacers for puppies and kittens too. Then if you get up once in the middle of the night (feed it just before you hit the sack and as soon as you get up) you have a chance of having a house rabbit in awhile!  They're cool, they can be trained to a litter box, and if hand raised it would probably love the snot out of you, plus they get along with most cats, if your cat will leave it alone, which it should when it is bigger. But it really needs the food/fluids often.

I would say (not to ruin your reputation, but in my book anyway) that this definitely proves that you are NOT a "big fat loser"!   

Um, EDIT: It may be a lot of work, here's a googled link on feeding baby wild rabbits, you apparently need to go find some mama rabbit poop.

http://www.squirrelworld.com/RabRehab.html

[frankieG]

i did not know that rabbits needed scat...i knew that marsupials such as koalas did but not rabbits.  good work finding that

[Teek]

I knew that baby horses, while they get needed immune properties from colostrum, still eat their mama's manure, and I imagine it's the same reason, herbivores need herbivore gut cultures. It's nice that humans don't need to do that. Think I'll go have some yogurt now. (I WAS wondering if an unflavoered unsweetened yougurt would help at all, Mountain High has a really good plain that is actively cultured in the cup, it would have a lot of gut bacteria, but as to specific to digesting plant fiber and to rabbits, well.   )

[yamahonkawazuki]

  update, he didnt make it. i came home from work, was gettign ready to make his meals for teh next few days, thought id better check on him. well, i didnt need to make teh  meals. sonofabitch i feel so f%$king worthless right now 

[Jay_wolf]

You did all you could , 

[yamahonkawazuki]

could have done more tho

[ajaxgs]

hey man ...you tried thats all that maters 

[sledge]

There is no saying the little fella would have survived even if the cat hadnt got hold of him/her.