The white rabbit/ Bye Bye Ruby

A strange thing happened to us Monday morning. The children had spent the night with their grandparents, but we were expecting them back home and then we were all headed to St. Augustine. While we were waiting, hubby decided to go out and put a box in the shed. When he came back in he said "There is a huge, white rabbit out by the shed."

To which I replied "A WHITE rabbit?" "Yes, a white rabbit. " "It's probably someone's pet, this I gotta see."

So I headed out side and sure enough there it was nibbling in a clover patch. It let me get within 2 feet of it before leisurely hopped a few feet and stopped. It went over to the dirt under the swingset and proceeded to dig some and roll in it (reminded me of my dog). I followed it around the yard all the while thinking that this had to be a pet. We have rabbits in our yard all the time, but they are those little brown ones and instantly bold for the fence when they hear us coming. We decided (well mostly I decided) that we should catch it and try to find the owner. Catching it proved to take a little patience and a milk crate. I was out of carrots, but had some iceberg lettuce, which she took little interest in. I had to sneak up on her and real quick get the crate over her. I'm sure this dance would have won me the $10k on America's Funniest Home Videos...

So we got her in the house and you would not believe this. She is the most gentle sweet animal I have ever met. She lets us pet her, handle her, pick her up and even endured inspection by our dog with little protest. She has been sleeping on a towel in our unused garden tub and eating Timothy Hay and carrots for the last 2 days. We put up some signs, but haven't gotten any nibbles. I did email an acquaintance who lives at the other end of the neighborhood. She knows of someone in the neighborhood with a bunny, but not sure if it's theirs.


UPDATE to the story.

We did have a response to the poster. Turns out, Ruby lives just 4 houses down. And is not Ruby, but Batman. She has a human brother...and boys like Batman I guess. So with some tears and promises of someday getting a bunny of our own, we said goodbye. We'll miss you Ruby/Batman.