A lady called Mrs Shepherd posted on a Facebook local page asking if anyone had lost a rabbit in the area. She said it was getting close to the road.
No-one replied to her, so after 20 minutes, I asked if she had caught it. She said she hadn’t as she was on her own.
I was so worried about the little rabbit getting knocked over that I just got up and told Mr DP that I was going to look for it! He said “wait for me then!”
We drove over to the road that it was in and saw the rabbit on its own, near some garages and bushes. There was a dandelion nearby, so the lady must have been trying to tempt it!
As we gently approached it, he hopped off so fast!
The lady came back out and said that he kept running towards the road and he was so quick.
So between the 3 of us, we kept trying to block him in, me with a box, Mr DP with a recycling box that he picked up and the lady waving her arms! He was so tricky he really gave us the runaround for about 5 minutes.
In the end, Mr DP spotted a whole bunch of bananas on the grass verge (which was very random in itself!), broke a piece off and threw it to the rabbit!
He started to tuck in and Mr DP managed to grab him!
We took him home so that we could keep him safe until an owner came forward or we could get him scanned for a chip.
Almost as soon as we put him in the cat box, someone posted on the facebook post that it was theirs! They sent me proof of ownership and came to collect him.
Here he is back at home with his Brother!
Anyway, I just thought it was funny that a shepherd led us to the Easter bunny. Some manna from heaven helped us capture him and a man with a big cross tattoo on his arm came to collect him!
The only thing that could have made it even better was if he had left a little pile of chocolate eggs in his wake!
thank you for sharing your lovely story and well done for rescuing him xx