rabbit help

[mimi]

Can anyone help with info on a rabbit we have living in our front drive under the hedge. He is always there late at night and when we come out of the house he retreats across the busy road outside untill we are gone. ITs only a matter of time before he gets hit by a car, we feel so sorry for him and wonder if anyone can tell us why he isnt in a warm burrow with the rest of his family. he has been there for about a week.

thanks

[Wild-Woman]

I take it that this is a wild rabbit and not an escapee?

[mimi]

yes it is ,we have quite a lot of rabbits living in the surrounding fields.

[Wild-Woman]

I don't think that there's anything that you can do really. If it has chosen your hedge for a home and he/she seems fairly happy (not ill) then I'd tend to leave it. Relocation would be confusing and unfair and although a road is a risk, it may well be aware of the noise and lights better than you think. I think it will move on in it's own time and get back with it's own.
Keep us posted on the rabbit though.

[Gill Catton]

I think rabbits often graze into the night. As to teaching it road sense....... I'm not sure there's much more you can do than hope

You could I suppose borrow a cat trap and bait it with carrots and reocate it miles away - but that willl be stressful for the rabbit and may actually kill it anyway and another may take its place at the end of your drive....

[Pippa]

We see many road kills regarding birds and wild life in general and it is so upsetting.

Unfortunately, you can't do anything about it.

Please, step back and enjoy.