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Posted: 9/17/2005 4:41:37 PM EDT
Was mowing today and saw the ground moving....thought that was strange so I investigated.
There is a small hole dug out and three of these babies in there. They were covered with all kinds of dryer lint, scrap twigs, etc.... something was a scrounger to prep this bed. This is a little big for a baby mouse. What is this?  
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Posted: 9/17/2005 4:43:02 PM EDT
[#1]
Rabbits? Though the color seems to be squirrelish.
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Posted: 9/17/2005 4:43:54 PM EDT
[#2]
Moles?
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Posted: 9/17/2005 4:44:43 PM EDT
[#3]
Rabbits. There's probably a very nicely padded hole near where you foung them.
ETA I should learn to read, just saw in your post that you already found the hole. They look like the cottontail babies I've seen, but then I've never seen jackrabbit babies, so I can't say which they are. |
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Posted: 9/17/2005 4:45:28 PM EDT
[#4]
I was wondering if that might be it. Any idea what kind? |
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Posted: 9/17/2005 4:45:58 PM EDT
[#5]
Given enough time, they could be mittens.
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Posted: 9/17/2005 4:46:09 PM EDT
[#6]
baby squirels?
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Posted: 9/17/2005 4:46:12 PM EDT
[#7]
el chupacabra
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Posted: 9/17/2005 4:46:45 PM EDT
[#8]
Look like rabbits to me.
Add rice and gravy and salt to taste. |
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Posted: 9/17/2005 4:47:33 PM EDT
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You stole mine, lol. They're rabbits. They are normally that color when they are newborns. |
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Posted: 9/17/2005 4:48:04 PM EDT
[#10]
kill teh wabbit
 "huh-uh-uh-uh-uh" 
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Posted: 9/17/2005 4:48:50 PM EDT
[#11]
baby rabbits - I used to raise them.
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Posted: 9/17/2005 4:49:02 PM EDT
[#12]
Them there's hassenfeffer.
Or Rabbit for ya'll Yankees. |
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Posted: 9/17/2005 4:51:01 PM EDT
[#13]
Capaberra?
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Posted: 9/17/2005 4:51:53 PM EDT
[#14]
I'm gonna guess rabbits; despite the fact that they have webbed-ish paws they have no long, pink tail which would have made me suggest muskrats. That, and they look like immature hassenpfeffer anyway.
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Posted: 9/17/2005 4:54:59 PM EDT
[#15]
Baby ones. Hide your children!! |
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Posted: 9/17/2005 4:55:01 PM EDT
[#16]
Don't tell TRG, or he come by your house for a wabbit hunt. Congrats on the house, Fal. |
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Posted: 9/17/2005 4:55:13 PM EDT
[#17]
Deer or 'dillo's. They are almost brand new, too.
Jeez, city folk. 
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Posted: 9/17/2005 5:01:33 PM EDT
[#18]
It must be a cottontail. I found this: "The cottontail is a rabbit and its young are born blind and helpless while the jackrabbit is a hare and its young have fur when they are born, their eyes are open and they are ambulatory." www.hunt4rabbit.com/ |
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Posted: 9/17/2005 5:11:22 PM EDT
[#19]
+1 They are native to South America but some idiot introduced them to Lousisanna. They are the largest rodent un the world. They top off at 30 some lbs. Looking at the pic I guess it is possible that they are just rabbits as well.  
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Posted: 9/17/2005 5:18:55 PM EDT
[#20]
Shit, if they don't reproduce like kudzu, we could use those in FL. We shoot everything else here. 
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Posted: 9/17/2005 5:21:41 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/17/2005 5:24:10 PM EDT
[#22]
Check out the 'Speak' episode of the cartoon version of 'The Tick'. He got one of these thinking it was a dog. Funniest episode ever. |
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Posted: 9/17/2005 5:25:18 PM EDT
[#23]
BTW that is a baby rabbit.
If you start caring fo it before its eyes open, you can tame it. |
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Posted: 9/17/2005 5:27:38 PM EDT
[#24]
There is a Bugs Bunny episode where one character (I think a ship's captain or somesuch) said something to the effect of "Cook! Where's my hassenfeffer?" in a heavy English accent. I've wondered what hassenfeffer was ever since. Thanks for the education!!!
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Posted: 9/17/2005 5:30:06 PM EDT
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I am not saying that it can't be done but everyone that have have known to try it the bunnies die. The vet I take injuried wild critters too told me that. My uncle has had the same experience too. Now a tree rat doesn't have those problems. |
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Posted: 9/17/2005 5:35:05 PM EDT
[#26]
Hasenpfeffer is the name of a rabbit stew. It is not another word for 'rabbit'. |
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Posted: 9/17/2005 5:38:30 PM EDT
[#27]
Frined of mine have raised several. Gotta get the proper formula from thr vet. |
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Posted: 9/17/2005 5:38:37 PM EDT
[#28]
Hasenpfeffer on the Hoof |
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Posted: 9/17/2005 5:52:31 PM EDT
[#29]
perhaps they are hippos?
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Posted: 9/17/2005 5:54:07 PM EDT
[#30]
Tannerite time.
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Posted: 9/17/2005 5:56:07 PM EDT
[#31]
You guys got it all wrong.
They are finger puppets. |
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Posted: 9/17/2005 6:08:21 PM EDT
[#32]
What you have there are baby conies.
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Posted: 9/17/2005 6:15:21 PM EDT
[#33]
A long time a go I was hunting rabbit with a bow and I got one which suddenly started convulsing and then had babies. I called our local humane society and they had a cat there that would nurse baby rabbits. They said that so many baby rabbits came in that the cat had just picked up caring for them.
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Posted: 9/17/2005 7:19:12 PM EDT
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FALARAK,
As people have posted, they are cottontails. They cannot be tamed. Once they get big enough they will bang against the inside of the cage and attack you. My wife still has a scar from the one I tried to raise.  If you leave them alone and scoot them back in the hole then the mom will take care of them. She will move them from one burrow to another to keep their odor down to help protect against predators. The mom will feed them as little as once every 24 hrs. If they aren't causing any problems for you then there is no reason to kill them. IMHO.
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Posted: 9/17/2005 8:49:37 PM EDT
[#35]
Thanks guys. I am just gonna leave them be. They made it under my mower.... so they can stay for a while.
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Posted: 9/17/2005 8:56:41 PM EDT
[#36]
Check to see if they are missing claws and if there is a string tied to their tail. If so they are Richard Gere's missing gerbils.
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Posted: 9/19/2005 12:23:48 PM EDT
[#37]
The dog found some in my backyard a couple weeks ago. One was out of the nest and wouldn't stay put for anything. We left it alone for a day and a half but it was getting very weak and still wouldn't stay in the nest. We took it inside and fed it kitten milk replacer and it was doing fine for a few days. All of a sudden, it died. It was fine that morning, but it died that evening. Not sure what happened there. The other babies disappeared a couple days later. Don't know if momma moved them or what.
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Posted: 9/19/2005 1:44:54 PM EDT
[#38]
That's really common with rescued immature rabbits. They don't show signs of any bacterial infection, but if they've been played with at /all/ by a dog or cat, they probably do have an infection. They'll seem fine for days sometimes--prey animals do /not/ want to show any weaknesses if at all possible. Then they just keel over. It's sad, but it happens. Those pics are damn cute. Jim |
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Posted: 9/19/2005 1:47:25 PM EDT
[#39]
rabbits...leave them be.
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Posted: 9/19/2005 1:50:27 PM EDT
[#40]
rabbit catchitore(sp)
my M-I-L cooks it up real good
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Posted: 9/19/2005 1:52:45 PM EDT
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when you get ready for this:  Let me know.  It is a specialty of mine. TRG |
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Posted: 9/19/2005 4:11:02 PM EDT
[#42]
Yup...cotton tail wabbits for sure. My missus turned over a nest of them in the mulch bed in front of our house while gardening a couple of years ago. All of a sudden she started screaming as a sextet of the cute little critters came boiling out of the ground at her feet. We grabbed them up and put them back...but mommy wabbit moved them shortly afterwords. They were at least a couple of weeks older than the ones here. Very cool.
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Posted: 9/19/2005 4:22:22 PM EDT
[#43]
a brace of them by the looks of it..... |
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Posted: 9/19/2005 4:29:38 PM EDT
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I pissed my pants. LITERALLY! |
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Posted: 9/19/2005 4:33:32 PM EDT
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Ummmmmmmmm there are already some in North Cent. Florida......... Near the LaCross/Brooker area........... a few have been kilt....... Supposedly they got away from the bartles & james ranch near there.......... |
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Posted: 9/19/2005 4:41:59 PM EDT
[#46]
Theyre Sqrabbits.
Half squirrel and half rabbit. Protect your nuts. Danny |
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Posted: 9/19/2005 4:44:50 PM EDT
[#47]
Don't you wish you had that .458SOCOM now?
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Posted: 9/19/2005 4:47:22 PM EDT
[#48]
Cute today, vermin tomorrow. If homemade slippers aren't in the plans, cage the mother and move them down the road to your enemies house.
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Posted: 9/19/2005 4:48:22 PM EDT
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Tannerite, man. Roll it in aluminum foil, carrot shaped. Spray paint it orange. Add some lettuce for the top of it. Party time. TRG |
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Posted: 9/19/2005 4:53:59 PM EDT
[#50]
Wabbit
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