We were out on a walk and the following messages appeared on our street’s WhatsApp group:
- “Just seen a rabbit in our garden. Usually only have foxes. Anyone missing a pet?”
- “Not me, but If you can catch it before a fox 🦊 or a cat 🐱 catches it and kills it, that would be marvellous.”
- “We are trying to.”
- Well done 👍🏽 and good luck 🍀”
- “What method are you using to catch the rabbit? 🐇”
- “I rescued an injured baby squirrel from a cat in our back garden many years ago. I took a large upturned plastic swing top bin, and eventually (2 hours) managed to corner it and carefully lower the bin over it to trap it. Then carefully slid a piece of board underneath the bin. Then carefully tuned it right way up whilst holding bin and board tightly together. Final step – replace board lid with a strong sack, tied on with rope. I then took it to the animal hospital in Leatherhead, where after four days of care it was well enough to be released into the wild.”
- “I wish you and your guest bunny a similarly happy conclusion. 🙏🏽”
- “Bunny has left ours and gone to the block of flats next door. Currently have 2 foxes sunning themselves in the garden so not trying to get bunny back.”
- “Phew! 😅 Seems like the bunny has had a narrow escape!…at least for now.”
- “He/she could have been foxes’ lunch!”
- “Two days back, I had seen the fox eating the squirrel behind our garden, felt very sad. The squirrels were happy visitors to our garden, they steal the entire sun flower pod and eating whatever they can. This year I have not seen them.”
- “Ah that’s tough. Poor squirrel met their fate. The dark side of Mother Nature.”
I was tempted to comment with the following:
“One of our favourite pub meals is rabbit pie at the Feversham Arms Inn in Church Houses on the North York Moors. It’s best to order the small size as the meals are rather generous.”
In the end I decided it was perhaps a bit insensitive 🤣, so I decided against posting! Checking out the pub’s website rabbit pie doesn’t appear on the current menu but game pie (no rabbit) does. Worse still the current, long-time owners are leaving at the end of October, so who knows what the food will be like after then.

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