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Rescue Spotlight: Rabbit Meadows

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Rabbit Meadows is a rescue group out of Seattle. As the name suggests, they rescue rabbits, but they also rescue other small animals like ferrets, and other small rodents. They are undertaking a great project that sounds like it will be beneficial for both the sanctuary rabbits and the people who love them.

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The Queen

10,000 Birds

Just before Thanksgiving, 2010, a driver spotted a Red-tailed hawk sitting on a dead rabbit in the middle of the road. She wasn’t about to leave her rabbit, and the driver figured something was wrong, so he picked her up. The grand old bird became a surrogate mother, and raised them herself. And to prove it, there’s The Queen.

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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

10,000 Birds

A pet cat raising orphaned ducklings! Explanations are simple: only a mother rabbit or a highly trained rehabilitator has a chance of raising and releasing a healthy wild bunny. That is, until the ducklings grow up, are released into a pond, and greet the local feral cat colony as long-lost relatives.

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Falconry – Bloodsport or Alternative Form of Birding?

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Dirt hawking is a form of falconry that involves hunting rabbits and other small game with Harris Hawks (other hawk species also qualify). There is no wind and the habitat is perfect for cottontail rabbits and the much larger jackrabbits (actually hares), the preferred quarry of this group of three birds. “HO!!

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Pets Aplenty Blog Tour

4 The Love Of Animals

We start right off with some crazy shenanigans that center around Paul dressing like a rabbit as part of a fund raising attempt. So, let’s chat about the book! It’s quiet funny, and has a lot of great characters. There were many laugh out loud moments, as well as heartwarming moments.

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West Point Cadet’s Mouse Release

10,000 Birds

Rabbits scamper into the underbrush, only to encounter a coyote nobody saw standing there. I once raised 5 orphaned blue jays, released them, and was happily watching them fly around my house one afternoon when a Cooper’s Hawk blazed through, grabbed one, and disappeared. But this is not always the case.

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Bunny Love

10,000 Birds

Predators that rely on lemmings, like the Snowy Owl , took advantage of the bounty and had great breeding success, raising large broods which, after the lemming population crashes, dispersed far and wide. Arctic Hare also were largely ignored by predators and bred, well, like rabbits.

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