This is my post for #freewriters prompt lacks sensitivity hosted by @mariannewest
Some people think that a wild rabbit lacks sensitivity, but I have found this not to be true. Rudy gets adamant when I do not give him his snack while I am cleaning his cage, and I think his feelings get hurt. If I do not put a snack in his house window, he will stick one foot out of it and tap it around as if he is looking for the snack. When he does not find one, he starts moving his house up and down, it will keep getting higher the longer it takes me to give it to him. He is a very sensitive rabbit.
How I wish I could let Rudy run with this little guy, he was in our backyard and is the same size as Rudy. I wonder if he is a sibling or cousin of his. Or maybe if he were free, it could be a mate for him. As I watched him hop around the yard, I watched which weeds he was eating and found one I did not know rabbits ate, and I have plenty of it. It has been one of my most hated weeds.
I am not sure what it is called, but I have always called the burrs that form after it flowers, preachers lice. They are long, skinny things that look like small sticks, and they stick to your clothes. The little rabbit was eating only the new growth. I have wondered why God would make a weed like this, and now I know. I cut a bunch of it yesterday, and this morning I saw Rudy had eaten every bit of it. I am happy to find another thing he will eat because it is now too hot to be growing veggies for him. I have been buying Romaine lettuce for him. I still have plenty of dandelions, too, but rabbits are not supposed to eat a lot of them, they cause digestive issues in rabbits, but they can eat a few a day.
This is the little crippled dove that has been living in our yard. It has something wrong with one of its legs and hobbles around. It can fly, but spends most of its time on the ground. We have to watch out for it when moving one of the trucks, it thinks it has the right of way, and you have to stop the truck until it decides to move out of the way.
Now we have a stray cat that thinks it can take up residence with us. The dog does not like cats, so I do not know how well this is going to work. Yesterday, while I was fishing, my daughter said the cat came into the yard and was under my sister's truck. The dog saw it and was barking at it, and the cat was hissing at the dog. She put the dog in the house. Maybe it will get the hint that the dog does not want it here. I would love to have it because I miss our cats, but we had different dogs when we had them, this one has never been around cats. I have not seen it today, so maybe it got the hint and went back to wherever it came from.
photos are mine