Monday, January 18, 2010

Pigeon and baby Bunnies

These little bunnies, about 6 days old, were attacked by a dog and orphaned. Two out of the litter of five did not survive, and these three were not doing very well. Noah is a non-releasable, one-legged homing pigeon that is in the rehab centre. Noah kept going over to the bunny cage and looking in -- even sleeping in front of the door to the cage.

Then, suddenly, there were only two bunnies in the cage. But when Noah moved a bit from the front of the cage to everyone's surprise..there was the tiny bunny..under Noah's wing....sound asleep! That little bunny rabbit had crawled through the cage, preferring a featherbed, no doubt to snuggling up with its littermates!
Now, they are all together and the bunnies are doing GREAT. When the bunnies scoot underneath Noah's feathers, he carefully extends his wings out to surround them and then they snuggle.. When one of them moves and they start sticking out here and there, he gently pushes them back under him with his beak! It is beautiful and amazing to see....

5 comments:

Pyatshaw said...

Lovely story and great photos.

tttt said...

that's so amazing, I love Noah :)

Angela said...

Awwww thats so amazing!! Ill have a bunny when they are ready. xx

Anonymous said...

That's amazing - what a lovely story.

Anonymous said...

Wow! That is amazing! So cute! I hope they are all doing well.