<p>Began my day with an early drag across the yard and into the ditch, tethered to the Maryland Mush team(3 dogs) in hot pursuit of a rabbit with a death wish!</p>
<p>oh my! Are you ok??</p>
<p>Too funny. My dog and the bunnies in our yard coexist. They graze right outside the boundary of the invisible fence and he stands there and looks at them.</p>
<p>This has been the Year of the Bunny in our yard and neighborhood. Spring came early, and I have heard we might get 4 crops of baby bunnies instead of the usual 3 this year. They are EVERYWHERE. Much to my dog’s delight, and my dismay as she leaps after them with no regard for the human on the other end of the leash.</p>
<p>One year our dog took off chasing a bunny. My daughter chased after him and found laying down hot and tired next to the bunny who was unhurt but also hot and tired. Bunny hopped away and the dog came home and slept for an hour.</p>
<p>I never let my beagle out unleashed and this is why. Saw a rabbit in the neighbors yard yesterday AM.</p>
<p>Best one was last year when I looked out the window and saw a rabbit and a turtle. Kind of like a visual “Aesop’s Fable”.</p>
<p>Great story Onward! Thanks for the laugh. :D</p>
<p>We have a house rabbit that thoroughly intimidates our Lab. He is very interested in her- views her as his “pet”. He will follow her around and cry but if he gets too close she is not at all shy about “thumping” at him. We have an abundance of bunnies in our yard- if he sees them he just views them as an extention of his friend in the house.</p>
<p>Nice to hear about the dogs who get along with bunnies. I have 2 rabbits and would love to have a dog, too, but feared that a dog would much my bunnies as happened to the rabbit of a friend who also had a dog.</p>
<p>NSM, we definitely don’t leave them unsupervised. When we’re on a walk, however, any small dog (think Yorkie size) is an immediate attraction for our pup- I think he just views the rabbit as a very small dog- or very small dogs as rabbits. If that made any sense at all.</p>
<p>Yes, that makes sense.</p>
<p>Well the Maryland Mush team consists of a bird dog and 2 schnauzers. I think the hunting and terrier instincts kick in whether trained that way or not. The schnauzers have a high prey instinct and heaven help anything that darts/runs… and any one on the other end of a leash when they do! My knuckles are busted, pants torn and pride injured but otherwise ok.</p>
<p>oh dear, sistersunnie! I am sorry. You have your hands full with that crowd!</p>
<p>NSM, from my personal experience, german shepherds are perfect bunny-friendly dogs.</p>
<p>Brittany–not bunny friendly. Not toad friendly. Not bird friendly. Not squirrel friendly.</p>
<p>The other day our cat was lying in the yard next to what appeared to be a dead chipmunk. I looked a little closer and realized there were no apparent wounds and Chip was breathing. Took Tabby inside (we don’t want her killing wildlife) and she watched out the screen door. Chip staggered to his feet, stumbled around dazed for a minute, then dashed out the side gate - right past the screen door and Tabby. I swear he pawed his nose at her as he went by.</p>
<p>Okay, bunny fu fu is either: a. so intellegent and beligerant, its unbelieveable, b. trying hard to make new friends (in which case his mom needs to explain bad choices…) or c. truely has a death wish. THIS morning , he/she was munching clover just a few feet from the outside kennel, while the two schnauzers were going nuts. Trying to climb the fence (no such chance) or dig under (again no chance) to get to the rabbit. Really funny but seriously… I could swear the rabbit was laughing!</p>
<p>My big ole bird dog peacefully coexists with all sorts of critters- chickens, ducks, rabbits, cats (cats he knows, not strange cats). He used to hang out for an afternoon of play & frolic at my sister’s farm and was content to watch all the animals do their thing.</p>
<p>Sadly, yesterday instinct kicked in and he caught a baby bunny 
They are just so little & fragile & dumb this time of year. We used to have to keep out cat inside for the bunny week or she would decimate them.</p>
<p>My husband still chuckles about our poor dog who learned about cable ties the hard way in a campground in the Yukon. An arctic tree squirrel climbed down a tree to check him out, staying just outside of the radius of his cable. Our dog crouched, then rushed before I could grab him. Needless to say, he ended up flat on his back with the squirrel laughing at him from a couple of feet away. Our dog ignores pet rats and even my BIL’s house rabbit, but he chases cats and squirrels (probably not skunks, after this past weekend…). He’s a Catahoula, which is a hunting breed, but is smart enough to leave the family critters alone.</p>