Wild bunnies

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I’ve had a weird day. First, a foster rabbit who was supposed to be on her way to a foster’s house gave birth VERY unexpectedly, a week away from when she was supposed to get spayed. And now someone is surrending two definitely orphaned (dog ate the mama) wild baby bunnies.
I contacted a wild life rehab I work with, but they aren’t responding.
I know I JUST saw a post on here about people finding orphaned babies– and I cannot find that post again for the life of me. Can anyone sum up what that post said or give me important points?
The babies aren’t eating kitten formula, and I would never dare try without the rehab’s “yes”, but does anyone think it’d be even possible to try to sneak these orphaned babies into the litter my foster just had to get them to eat? Or heck no, I shouldn’t even ask the rehabbed because that’s dumb?

[Azerane]

I don’t have any experience with this, but I would think it largely depends on how old the babies are. Fostering kits over to another rabbit mum isn’t uncommon, although she may no accept them. In which case they could be housed separately, but you could always hold the mother rabbit for feeding sessions for the wild babies. If the kits are unlikely able to be released due to their age and how they will acclimatise to humans etc, I don’t think it matters. I’m not sure how eligible wild babies are for release after they’ve been raised.

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Thank you! I finally got the wildlife rehab on the phone and they said that since they’re lil babies, all I need to do is to get them to survive with dewy leaves until their ears perk up (around 21 days), and that’s when they’re ready to go back in the wild. If they were a bit older the issue would be different.
I can’t lie, I’m a liiiiiittle disappointed :p but it’s the best for ’em.

[Yoyo]

Hi See! – I have dealt with wild rabbit kits twice before.. my experiences were this – no rescue/shelter/humane society, would touch them – they simply too taxed out, on other animals, I suppose… anyhow.. I offered both litters cats formula, in bottles, but, both, seemed to be past that… I kept them in cardboard box, with felt scraps on one side, and hay on the other, and dropped in rabbit pellets..they seemed to be eating those fine,, after about a week or 2 ( different sizes of the litters ) – I released them all I the same place, – a safe farm of my uncles.. I hope they all thrived – I hope yours do, also

ETA – just reread your post… ” sneaking in ” the babies,.. is a pretty wild card situation.. no telling how that will wind up.. it could work… it couldn’t.. if you attempt this, plz… be on hand, to intervene tho.. maybe she will accept… perhaps not.. wild rabbits, are different breed, as tame rabbits, but.. lol… ever seen youtubes of a dog nursing a deer?  xD  It could work, just – be careful!

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