Who is this wiggly little baby?
Is she a squirrel or maybe a kitten?
She’s actually a baby bunny.
Jessica found her in her backyard
covered in scratches, and she was all alone.
Jessica waited for the bunny’s mom
to come back and find her baby.
Mama rabbits often leave their babies alone during the day,
so Jessica had to be patient,
but no rabbit ever came for the baby.
Jessica realized it was up to her to save the little bunny.
To do that, she had to learn how to be a rabbit mom.
First up, food.
Rabbit milk is pretty hard to get, but it turns out
kitten formula is good for baby bunnies, too.
Jessica fed her and fed her, four times a day.
Soon the bunny started to get bigger and stronger.
After a few months, her ears popped out.
“Grown up and big.”
So cute.
She was starting to look like a big bunny,
and she was acting like one, too.
She suddenly felt the need to run everywhere,
like, really fast.
Zoom!
Veggie break.
Zoom!
Veggie break.
The bunny loved spending time with Jessica.
She was even eating right out of her hands.
The little rabbit had grown a lot
since Jessica first found her.
She was finally big and strong enough to go back
and live out in the wild all on her own.
Jessica would miss her,
but she knew it was the right thing to do,
so she said goodbye to the bunny and let her go.
Jessica watched as she hopped off into the wilderness.
The bunny took some laps around the garden,
and then...
she turned right back around and came home!
What was going on?
Jessica suddenly realized her bunny
might have looked old enough to leave the house,
but she just didn’t feel ready yet.
After all, she hadn’t been outside
since she was a tiny baby in Jessica’s yard.
Jessica knew the baby bunny she rescued
was meant to go back to the wild someday.
She just needed a little practice first.
So Jessica started taking the little rabbit
outside every day.
At first, she only wanted to spend
a little bit of time outdoors, but after a few visits,
the bunny was like, “Hey, maybe I could get used to this.”
Her bunny instincts started to kick in.
She learned how to find food on her own.
Eventually, she was like,
“Yeah, this is totally where I’m meant to be.”
The bunny started spending more time outside than inside.
That’s when Jessica knew it was finally time
for her baby bunny to go live in the wild for good.
Even though Jessica was sad that her bunny was leaving,
she knew she did a great job being a rabbit mom.
So Jessica took her outside one last time
and watched her go home.
Jessica was so proud of her little bunny,
but she missed her, too.
A year later, though, something really special happened.
Jessica had a visitor in her yard.
It was her baby bunny, all grown up, back to say hello
and to thank her for helping her grow up.
All along, this little baby needed a mom,
and little did she know she would find one
in her own backyard.