This is my post for #freewriters 2361 prompt contact the rabbit hosted by @mariannewest
Every morning my husband takes the dogs outside our front gate and lets them explore all the animal scents that came to visit the night before. He did this today and when he brought the dogs back in the gate, a little rabbit about the size of Rudy hopped out of the woods and sat in our driveway, he said it was not afraid of him or the dogs and the dogs just stared at it. I wonder if they thought it was Rudy. This makes me think that if Rudy did get loose, maybe the dogs would not hurt him, by now they might think he is part of the pact. Since it was not afraid my husband tried to contact the rabbit but as he walked closer to it, it hopped back into the woods.
I thought about letting Rudy go in the same spot this little fellow was at, but he knows nothing about being in the wild and my husband said the other little rabbit was not going to last long in the wild because he does not know that people and dogs are danger to him. I can not decide which is the cruelest thing to do with him, keeping him locked up in a cage {this is all he knows} or putting him out in the woods where he knows nothing, they both seem cruel to me. By keeping him in the cage, I give him love, he is safe and gets all the food he needs. In the wild would he be looking for his box house to sleep in and what about his treats that he looks forward to each night and first thing in the morning before he goes back to his house to sleep for the day?
Rudy when I first found him
Rudy April 26, he is sleeping so I didn't want to wake him to get a new picture.
photos are mine
