Rehabilitation animal of the month: Eastern cottontail rabbit

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Rehabilitation animal of the month: Eastern cottontail rabbit.
It’s common to see baby wild animals outside during spring, and as the tiny offspring set out on their own, sometimes danger moves in.
That’s the story with this month’s Rehabilitation Animal of the Month, a seven-day-old eastern cottontail rabbit – who was brought to the Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary after receiving some cuts as a result of a crow attack.
Curator Lori Bankson said eastern cottontail rabbits are a big picture of the busy spring seasons at the sanctuary.
“This is the most popular mammal we get,” Bankson said.
“We get about 2,500 mammals every year and the majority are cottontails.
We’ve been getting them (consistently) now for a month here at the Wildlife Sanctuary.”

She said a main reason why they get them at an age as young as this month’s animal is because they are released by their mom at just two weeks old to fend for themselves.
“This one was attacked by a crow,” Bankson said.
“(A family) saw it and, luckily, brought it to us.