• The red on his foot is vet wrap. It stretches and sticks to itself instead of to the wounds. This type of dressing is also used on humans. We go through a lot of wrap. If you work in an area that uses this product, we can always make use of left over ends that are still long enough to wrap a wing, or leg.

• We get many of these Eastern Cottontail rabbits in the spring. Some are orphans, some are injured do to attacks by cats and dogs. These babies are raised by our volunteer foster parents and released when they are old enough to survive on their own. Baby bunnies are more likely to die from stress then other babies we receive such as squirrels, skunks, and opossum.

• The Eastern Cottontail can reach 2 - 4 lbs, and get to be 14 - 16 in in length. Males and females are basically the same size and color, appearing gray or brownish with a short white tail and big ears. This rabbit has six teeth, two back teeth are small and hidden. Also two lower teeth.

• Cottontails tend to concentrate in favorable habitats such as brushy fence rows, brush, junk piles, thickets, field edges or landscaped backyards where food and cover are suitable.

• This rabbit eats young, succulent plant material such as herbs, shrubs, buds, vegetables, and the bark of young trees, and saplings. Underground dens are used in extreme cold or wet weather and to escape pursuit. In spring and fall, rabbits use grass or weeds to create a nest cavity on the surface of the ground for protection.

• Predators include coyotes, owls, hawks, fox, and wolves.

• The hares are capable of breeding at six months old. Gestation period is 28 or 29 days and there may be as many as ten young per litter. The young rabbits leave the nest in two to three weeks and there may be as many as our litters per year