I am bumming! I accidentally hit a rabbit's nest full of tiny baby bunnies with a string trimmer this evening. I was finally getting around to trimming some of the tall grass (about 8" high) on my property when I hit something and I seen something bleeding and writhing around. As soon as I realized that I had hit something alive I stopped, but I had already hurt two of the three little rabbits. My neighbor called his veterinarian who advised us to simply put he bunnies back in their nest (which had basically been destroyed). I did as the vet suggested, but I am torn. Every instinct that I have says I should have ended the poor things' suffering. But the vet seemed to think that they might survive. I don't know... I just HATE to see living things suffer so.
The hardest part was explaining to my four year old boy that his daddy didn't mean to hurt the baby bunnies. He said that he understood... but from the look in his eyes I'm not so sure.
The hardest part was explaining to my four year old boy that his daddy didn't mean to hurt the baby bunnies. He said that he understood... but from the look in his eyes I'm not so sure.