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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO
Created:Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5089
Total number of notes:60366

2620.0. "Houdini disappeared! Where could he be?" by MPGS::MARGOLIS (Paula Beth) Mon Jun 26 1989 12:56

    I'm seeking some moral support...and some answers...
    Please send any replies to HDSRUS::MARGOLIS, so I can
    get more immediate responses.
    
    On Friday night, we found a baby bunny in our garden.
    After picking it up, and placing it in a small cage for 
    observation, we learned that our interference would 
    probably prevent "Momma" bunny from returning for her 
    young.  His fur/skin had been injured somewhat.
    
    We spent the next two days nursing it, observing it and 
    falling in love with it.  On Saturday night/Sunday morning,
    it escaped from its cage, to be found behind the washing 
    machine.  It was then we decided to call it Houdini.
    
    What does this have to do with Cats?  I'm getting to it...
    
    Last night, we clipped the dorr shut tighter on the cage,
    but it nonetheless escaped again...and probably crawled under
    the bathroom door.  Unlike the previous night, we found no
    traces of "bunny-stuff" past the hall just outside the door.
    
    We spent several hours looking for him this morning, but to 
    no avail.  I have two cats, and am VERY worried, yet I find 
    no remains.
    
    Any advice, comforting would be appreciated!  I am so hurt over
    losing this little cutie...Houdini please reappear hopping!
    
    
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2620.1CIRCUS::KOLLINGKaren, Sweetie, & Holly; in Calif.Mon Jun 26 1989 18:003
    Have you tried leaving bunny food around where it might find it, 
    assuming Houdini is hiding in a corner somewhere?
    
2620.2Houdini's back safe and sound! JUPITR::MARGOLISPaula BethTue Jun 27 1989 12:0316
    I left carrots outside every room and opened all the doors 
    (except where I put the cats).  I was relieved to find that all
    the carrots upstairs had been nibbled on.  I located the cutie and
    put the cage in front of the doorway.  He's back safe and sound!
    :')  :')  :')  
    
    I put chicken wire on the cage door, and cardboard where I think
    he made his escape.  I also blocked the door with a towel.  This
    morning I found him out of the cage, with the towel pushed away
    from the door!  Amazing!  I caught him just in time.
    
    More fixes to the cage, and the bottom of the door has been secured
    with cardboard.  Still, who knows?
    
    What a little Dickens!  
    
2620.3Take his/her act on the road!NUTMEG::MASONExplaining is not understandingTue Jun 27 1989 12:341
    
2620.4how to make a cage...ALLVAX::LUBYDTN 287-3204Tue Jun 27 1989 12:4614
If you are at all handy with a hammer and saw you can make a cage.

Just make a frame of wood, put plywood on the bottom, chicken wire (with
1/2 inch holes on the sides, and put a plywood lid on top.  You can
secure the lid with hinges and a latch hook.

We had a rabbit once and his cage was 3 feet long, 18 inches wide, and
1 foot tall.  If you don't plan to let him out once and a while, you
might want to make it larger, otherwise this should be sufficient.

karen


2620.5STOR06::DALEYTue Jun 27 1989 14:005
    Are you planing to make this a pet? Actually, he is a wild
    animal and probably should be returned to the wild. Drumlin Farm
    generally accepts baby wild animals, rehabilitates them and
    returnes them to their natural habitat. Domestic rabbits
    will make a better pet if you are interested in rabbits. 
2620.6HOUDINI THANKS YOU FOR CARING!JUPITR::MARGOLISPaula BethTue Jun 27 1989 20:072
    RE:  .3  CUTE ;')!
    
2620.7Soooo cuteDRFIX::IVESI'm my own PersianThu Jun 29 1989 16:2720
    When we lived in Ohio the neighborhood kids bought us a very
    small baby wild bunny. So cute. Off to the vets it went and Mopsie
    had a shot of vitamins, and the vet told us to feed her evaporated
    milk and karo syrup with an eye dropper every TWO hours. Our cats (3)
    and two saints watched with facination as we fed this little creature.
    Not too long afterward someone else gave us another baby bunny who
    was caught by their cat. Back to the vets, and Peter was given a clean
    bill of health also.
    
    We had these two bunnies for 6 years, and loved every minute of it.
    We also had 2 domestic rabbits and all four would be let out on
    the lawn to run and jump and eat, and no one ever ran away.
    
    I think the two wild bunnies died of old age within 6 months of
    each other.
    
    They sure can steal your heart.
    
    Barbara
    
2620.8Aja, a renegade rodent and "Nutz", my squirrel...WEFXEM::COTEYou opened your umbrella...Fri Jun 30 1989 15:4615
    I got the impression that .0 was concerned with her cats mistaking
    the rabbit for an open box of Friskies...
    
    I say don't worry. TOO much. Unless your cats are veteran hunters
    they'll probably be more inclined to 'play' with the rabbit. The
    rabbit undoubtedly won't be amused.
    
    The renegade rodent I wrote of in an earlier note came back upstairs
    this week. Aja spent all night chasing it and running around the house
    with it with no indication the she had any clue this thing could be
    a snack. (Actually, it was both of us chasing it around the house. She
    to play and I to try and save it's little mouse tuckus from being
    played with to death...)
    
    Edd
2620.9Houdini returns to the wild...JUPITR::MARGOLISPaula BethFri Jul 07 1989 19:386
    We let Houdini go free.  Unfortunately the more positive notes
    arrived too late for the "weighing" of advice.  We'll get a domestic
    bunny real soon!
    
    I miss him so...But he seemed SO happy in the grass!