Lint is home! was Lint gone missing

[Sabine]

I had the most horrible day today. This morning I discovered that three of my rabbits had escaped through a hole in the fence that wasn't there before. Behind the fence is a steep overgrown bank that I thought was inpenatrable. But apparently i was wrong. I found two of them (Coco and Magic) roaming the neighbouring estate. It took me ages to catch them and I half expected finding Lint back in the garden when i returned with my escapees. But their was no sign of her. i talked to neighbours in the area and the said they had seen the rabbits in the bushes before so they must have been out before but always returned. It's strange that i didn't notice them missing but I guess my garden has loads of hidy holes and whenever I looked for them they were there. Lint is quite a dopey rabbit and not half as street wise as Coco and her daughter Magic. She is the kind of rabbit that sits in an open cage or just lies down somewher in the room while Magic would try and pull all the barricades down to get behind the sofa and chew and destroy. Escaping from the garden i WOULDN'T PUT PAST cOCO AS SHE HAD DONE SO BEFORE AND mAGIC INHERITED HER WILD STREAK but Lint, innocent fluffy little Lint......? I am actually worried sick and fear the worst. It'simpossible to get through the brambles and brires behind the fence and I don't want to destroy her path home.I fear she is stuck or injured or simply can't find her way back and she is not as fearful of predators as Coco and Magic. She may walk up to a terrier thinking it was another rabbit. We posted loads of fliers and put notices up on lamposts and trees. It's raining heavily outside and I wonder wher she is. What are her chances of getting back. I'm feeling physically sick with grief.

 

[Becca]

Oh my. I'm so sorry

I don't know what to say, I know how you feel the wave of panic that is constantly over you when your bun has escaped luckily mine are always still in the garden. But poor little Lint.

I just hope she returns home safe and sound :tears2:

 

[NorthernAutumn]

I'm so sorry to hear Lint is lost for a little while, Sabine :hug:
If you look at the missing bunny thread NZ minilops has, a lot of ppl suggested putting out liberal piles of bunny poop and good things to eat to bring them back home.
Maybe bait some livetraps from the spca and put in neighbours' gardens?

We'll be thinking about Lint, and praying for her safe return.

 

[Sabine]

Coco sometimes stayed out over night in summer when we couldn't catch her but I always knew she was in the garden and without fail she'd hang around her hutch in the morning. This feels completely different. I can't imagine anything but the worst

 

[Becca]

Try doing what Autumn suggested, Piles of poop her fave veggies, pellets etc - Try livetraps too.

Just try and think positive, I know its hard

Thinking of you and little Lint [HUG]

 

[Sabine]

NorthernAutumn wrote:

I'm so sorry to hear Lint is lost for a little while, Sabine :hug:
If you look at the missing bunny thread NZ minilops has, a lot of ppl suggested putting out liberal piles of bunny poop and good things to eat to bring them back home.
Maybe bait some livetraps from the spca and put in neighbours' gardens?

We'll be thinking about Lint, and praying for her safe return.

There's no shortage of bunnypoop in the garden. LOL. I put a carrot by the hole she must have got through. Thanks for pointing out the thread. i'll check that staright away. I so wished I had checked the fence before i let her out.

 

[dazzy_14]

Omg:tears2:

I am so sorry to hear that i do with all my heart hope that she returns safely and isn't at all harmed.

I wish u well and your rabbits and i am praying that she returns home to you

 

[JimD]

ray:

 

[TinysMom]

I'm 48 now - I had a bunny when I was....8 or 10 I think....

Anyway, Snowball got out of his enclosure my dad had made for him and disappeared - for days.

After a week or two - mom went out and got me another rabbit (also a red eyed white rabbit as that was all they had back then).

We had this rabbit for about a week - when my dad stopped at a gas station and they said, "Hey...don't you have a rabbit? We found one wandering around and have been waiting for you to come so we could see if it was yours...". They'd locked it in a deserted car and were giving it carrots and grass and stuff (I don't even remember if the pet store had pellets back then).

Dad looked in the car -and there was Snowball. He was in shock.

You see - Snowball had wandered through a cow pasture - across a lawn where people had dogs - across a four lane road - and then around the gas station - where cars were constantly pulling in.

He'd done so safely.

So after being gone for about 3 weeks or so - dad brought him home where he was able to meet Fluffy.

Unfortunately - we didn't know how to check for their gender...imagine our surprise about 3 months later when several little red eyed white bunnies came wandering out of their wooden enclosure and into their wired-in pen area.

My point? Don't give up on Lint. Snowball was gone for weeks - but as it turned out - he was found.

I'd put up posters with a picture if you can - and maybe call vets in your area and even see if you can put an ad in the newspaper too.

 

[Sabine]

Thanks tinysmum, that's the sort of story I need to hear to dispell the images of Lint injured and torn to shreds by dogs in my head. We already put loads of posters with a picture up and the kids posted little flyers with a picture into 30 letterboxes. We haven't heard from anyone yet

 

[Bo B Bunny]

Any updates?

I had a cat leave like that one time.

My sister had a bunny just show up at her apartment one time. She watched to see if anyone took it - it was out for a few days there - that was a busy place too! 2 crossing main roads to the outside and tons of traffic in the apartment drives.

She finally took the bunny and we had her for a long time.

 

[BSAR]

Little Lint is in my thoughts andprayers. I hope she returns home safely and soon.ray:

 

[Carolyn]

My heart breaks for you. I truly hope and pray you find the little one.

 

[Leowyldemi]

oh no! i hope you find her soon, is lint one of the white ones in your piccy? if so surely someone will see a white rabbit and realise it might be someone's pet!

 

[pinksalamander]

Oh no, thats awful

Keep checking everyday. It may be easier to check at night with a torch, that way you could see the light glint off their eyes?

I find that rabbits tend to stay put. They don't (usually) roam that much. Lottie escaped once and had the whole night to run free, and I found her in the other hutch, eating hay

I've also had William escape. Found him at the top of the garden steps the next morning.

Fran :hearts :brownbunny

 

[dazzy_14]

did u find her today ?? :?

i hope so n if not then i hope u definitely find her tomoz n i'm sure she'll be fine

 

[Becca]

Any updates?

I have been thinking about you and your family all day

 

[Sabine]

Miracles do happen! LINT IS BACK! I had almost given her up for dead but we got her back this afternoon and I am still a bit confused as to why we didn't have her back way earlier. According to the person who brought her back to us: Apparantly she had walked into the house of a neighbour down below who happens to own several dogs. They chucked out the dogs and kept her in for the night leaving her roam the house. In the meantime we called back repeatedly to the estate talking to people putting flyers with Lint's photograph through every single door and putting missing notes onto every lamp post etc... While I was out in the p....ing rain with a torch looking for her she was munching through three carrots in someone elses house. The person who brought her back turned out to be an old aquaintance of mine who had helped me in the morning catch Coco and Magic. Her little son came running to her this afternoon crying that Soandso's had a white rabbit. As she knew we still had a rabbit missing she called to the people and picked Lint up. She said she saw one of our flyers in their house. I mean I'm very greatful they gave Lint shelter for the night but why would they not have rung us earlier. The missing notes were all up by three o'clock yesterday and we called at least ten timesto the estate looking for her. If you had a rabbit wandering into your door wouldn't you call to your neighours and ask if anyone was missing a rabbit? Whether or which. she's back and I'm over the moon. Thanks to everyone who kept her in their thought. I'll post more later, sabine

 

[dazzy_14]

that is super great to hear

i'm glad she is alright
I am shocked they didn't give her back earlier :?
it's weird

anyways im glad she is back

daisy xoxo

 

[BSAR]

That is odd that they didn't bring her back earlier. But at least she is safe now. I was going to post and say that rabbits tend to stay within 600 feet (maybe a bit less or more) of their burrow/cage/home.