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<\/a><\/p>\nThey are everywhere in my neighbour. Mrs. Fox, don’t you have hungry cubs to feed?<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n Wednesday morning July 15th<\/sup>, the day after the torrential downpour\u2026<\/p>\n I had cleared my deck of all debris. I put on my gloves and decided to scout my side yard for any fallen branches. Just than, I heard my neighbor yelling my name.<\/p>\n \u201cGawri, come here.\u201d I dropped the sticks and twigs I had picked up on the lawn and crossed the street. At the same time I saw my neighbor pointing to something and talking to a jogger in front of her house.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWhat\u2019s happening?\u201d I asked in excitement.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a baby cottontail on the stairs. He\u2019s not moving. I thought I\u2019d call you because you\u2019d know what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Since I had my gardening gloves on I picked the wee little thing up and started to check him. It was a first for me. I\u2019ve never held a wild bunny in my hands before.<\/p>\n I\u2019m sure it was a first for the bunny too.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ll take him back home and call Animal Control, I said. I\u2019ll show the kids and it\u2019ll also wake them up. They are still in bed at almost noon. \u00a0What can I say, summer holidays …<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I\u2019ll come with you said my neighbor as she followed me back to my place. We got a box from my garden and placed the bunny in it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n We called Animal Control and guess what? They were so busy that they told us to leave the cottontail where we found it or to call the Humane Society.<\/p>\n After fussing about we finally got the phone number from the Internet.<\/p>\n I can\u2019t even remember the number of times I\u2019ve called animal control to save an injured skunk on the street, a bleeding swan in the lake, raccoon with a mangled leg,\u00a0raccoon with distemper, runaway dogs and now for a baby cottontail.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It turns out that Animal Control was too busy attending to other calls. Welcome to Oakville.<\/p>\n Both Humane Society and Animal Control numbers are saved in my phones now.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n So, away the baby bunny went in the palm of son\u2019s hand back to my neighbour\u2019s house. His job was to check on the bunny. Sure enough, after an hour or so the bunny had hopped way.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n