Baby Bunny Saved by the Bell

Today started out like every other day, getting the dogs into the car, driving to the beach. Crazy barking until I open the doors to let them out, taking my life in my own hands not to be knocked over.

Everybody is very impatient, because I take to long getting the leashes, poop bags, tennis balls and my camera out. Now we can start. Throwing some balls, just to get the dogs of my back, so I can pick up poop. Bending over, there is a tennis ball right in my face, it did not even take a second for them to come back. So, it all takes a few minutes to clean up as much as I can and find.

In the meantime I lost the balls I threw earlier, now I am down to three balls.

For some reason the beach seems to swallow them. It always amazes me, with how many balls I leave and how few I come back. My dog Eric looses them by the ton, he thinks I have a tree in the backyard and that my bag has bottomless supplies.

My friend throws the balls and sticks for the dogs, who are hanging around her barking and eager to catch the next ball. Sometimes they try other friends, but when it does not work, back to my friend. Hoping that it is their turn next.

In the mean time I take pictures, many of them and try to video tape some of the funny moments. Which is not always easy because the dogs are to fast and running to much back and forth. When I walk with the camera, it bounces up and down, watching it later on the computer makes me almost seasick. People talking or walking into the frame and no it is not a complain just an observation. So the best thing for me is almost standing in place and follow the dogs with the camera.

Anyway, so we were walking talking enjoying the dogs, looking at some of the driftwood, which are almost sculptures. This one in particular, all soft and washed out, so beautiful. Suddenly one dog came running down the hill with something in his mouth and a little squeak. The owner rushed right over and there it was a tiny Baby Bunny. A little bit in shock, but not one mark on him/her.

So in order to keep it away from the dogs, I used some of my t-shirt rapped it into it and let my bosom and heartbeat take care of the rest. It got very calm and I could feel it move a little here and there, but all in all it was still and did not try to get away.

We saw an Offspring yesterday and some rabbit remains, it may have been the mother or not, why it was out off his den who knows, it was so small could not even walk.

By the end of the walk it was warm and relaxed and the bunny's ears were perking up. My friend took it to the Wild Life Center and I will find out tomorrow how it is doing.

Woof, woof

Sabine