Strange Friends

A friend of mine has two white GSDs, one is about 4 years the other 1 1/2 years. They live in the country and have a fully fenced yard and in the last month they have had a visitor in the yard.. a bunny . This fellow comes into the yard, the dogs chase him, he escapes under the fence and the play goes on . Lately this bunny has been coming right up on the deck and peeks into the kitchen window or just sits there almost like asking the dogs to come out to play. I do hope it all ends without disaster :(
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Oh dear. But the bunny sounds really cute!! I hope they all play nicely.
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Hi Jean,
It does sound sweet and I do hope the bunny is safe. Perhaps it's not a wild bunny but was someone's house pet. People often think that they do just fine if dropped off in the woods or parks. Sorta like when people do that with dogs and drop them off in the countryside.
Most domestic bunnies die within the first few weeks and white bunnies especially are at high risk. For them it's usually within the first 24 hours, killed off by hawks, coyotes or owls as white is not a natural color in the wild unless they are Snowshoe bunnies and their habitat is normally covered with snow.

Yikes I'm hijacking your post (apologies) I got started on the pet bunny thing as it is unusual behavior for bunny and I couldn't help thinking perhaps he/she grew up with dogs? It must have been cute to observe bunny at the window and I hope his new canine buddies don't intentionally hurt him/her. Lets cross our fingers!

Marianne
I can't advise anything, I can just tell that a friend of us growing up had a St. Bernard who was an outside dog. One day they saw him "running" after a wild bunny. They wanted to stop him "chasing" the bunny but they stopped because of what they'd seen.

The bunny could have escaped from him but instead when the dog pushed his butt in the air the bunny turned around and hopped on him and started to wrestle with him. There was this huge St. Bernard on its back with a wild bunny on top of him, they would chase each other, etc. The bunny never became friends with the humans but came back every day at the same time of the day to play with his new buddy for years. :D
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