Why YSK: DON’T bring it somewhere to ‘save’ it unless it’s in immediate danger - you’re probably just kidnapping it from its mom. People find baby deer or rabbits with no parents nearby and think they’re abandoned, so they bring them to shelters to try to “save them”. In reality they’re just forcibly separating the animal from its mother and greatly reducing its survival chances.

Infant rabbits without their mothers don’t do well. Even in professional care settings, they have about a 90% mortality rate. Taking them away from the nest should be a last resort, only when death is guaranteed otherwise.

  • bquinlan
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    581 year ago

    Deer used to drop off their young in our back yard to hang out with our old dog. Ash was a large and impressive shepherd mix with the most zen attitude I’ve ever seen in a dog. They all trusted him completely. And he did, in fact, take care of them and made sure no animals or humans bothered them.

    • @Music
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      91 year ago

      Ash sounds perfect. This is so sweet!

    • @Mowcherie
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      71 year ago

      Who’s the goodest unpaid babysitter boy?! You are?! Good boye.

  • @[email protected]
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    271 year ago

    Shitty YSK: Deers and rabbits “park” their babys, spending most of their day away from them. If you find a baby, give them a ticket for parking violation.

    • @b0son
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      71 year ago

      Oh boy reddit humor making its way over here?

  • @MiddleWeigh
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    271 year ago

    My back yard is often a sort of “nursery” for a whole crew of doe. Theyll leave them in this patch of tallish grass and ferns and go forage… They’re all sisters, cousins, aunts, etc. I have names for them and watch them grow. The litter bambies right now are so damn cute.

  • harrusment
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    121 year ago

    To piggy back on this, you can touch “baby” animals. The mother will not leave them. If you disturb a nest, den, etc, place the young back to where they came and the mother will come back,.

  • @b0son
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    111 year ago

    Same thing with baby seals on the beach! Leave them alone!

  • @Drudge
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    91 year ago

    Never thought I’d be jealous of parenting techniques from a rodent. Rabbit parents get to JUST PEACE OUT FOR A BIT? Like, I get it…kids are shitty…but the organizational prowess it takes to just get a coffee with my wife away from the little terrors makes work seem easy.

  • WaffleFriends
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    71 year ago

    Found a little doe next to the library on campus a couple of weeks ago. Had to convince the other people that were also looking at the doe that it was probably fine and that it hadn’t been abandoned.

  • @d4rknusw1ld
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    71 year ago

    I always seem to find them when I’m weed whacking in the spring they always come springing out of nowhere 2 seconds before plastic twine death.

    Of course the kid want pets; and then I always put them back with some extra shade.

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      11 year ago

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  • ipodjockey
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    31 year ago

    I had no idea. Thanks for sharing.

  • @got2best
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    21 year ago

    I thought this is only true if it’s in a den or “nest” … I once found a baby rabbit in the scorching heat just laying on some landscaping rocks.