More babies!!

A few weeks ago, I told you about the rabbits that we've been working to rescue from the property of a local restaurant.  As of this past Saturday, we had caught 16 and as far as we knew, there were only 2 left out there.   With temperatures reaching the low 100's this past week, we were desperate to get the rest of them to safety.

Well, the 2 that we know of are still out there somewhere, but this morning we were able to trap 4 babies!  One of them was in such bad shape (the poor thing was just crawling with ticks!) that we opted to just keep that one in our "sick bay" and monitor his health. The other three have been cleaned up and are going into foster care tomorrow. 
The oldest of those 3 is probably about 8 weeks old or so.  The other two appear to be from the same litter (they still fit in the palm of your hand!) and are probably about 4 weeks old.   

This brings our total (just from this ONE property) up to 20!  And as I said earlier, there are still at least 2 out there...If they're a male/female pair, they'll continue to have litters every 30 days until we can get them.  

We also took in two babies last week from an unrelated incident.  A man found a pregnant female in his yard, and she gave birth to 6 babies.  The man didn't know what to do with them so he set them up outside, and with the terrible heat, one of the babies passed away, probably from heat stroke.  Of the remaining 5, two had nasty cuterebra larvae in their necks (I assure you, it's disgusting), the other three were doing OK so the guy decided to hang onto them for a while to help us out (and has since moved them inside!) 

We found an adult female running around on a school playground (again, on that day where it was about 107°), one man turned over his extremely handsome black & white rex named Merlin, because he was moving out of the country and couldn't keep him.   A beautiful bonded pair was turned over to us last weekend; a little mixed breed girl was turned over 2 weeks ago, plus we have 5 of the "Restaurant Bunnies" (not counting the three we caught this morning, which are presently sitting in my living room).

Whew!!  We're just so overwhelmed...and the sad part is that this pretty much happens to us every year right around this time.  You'd think we'd be used to it by now!