I was startled to read last year that the best food for wild rabbits and the one they love the most is timothy hay.
Having taken a keen interest in the half dozen bunnies that inhabit our yards, I mentioned to the family my finding about the hay. I have to be careful about what I discuss around my family because on Dec. 25, 2022, I got a bale of hay for Christmas. If there was another person in the world that got a bale of hay for Christmas, I want the details.
Shortly thereafter, someone asked me what I got for Christmas and, of course, I replied: “Twenty pounds of grass.”
The other night, I was standing not far from the shed, heading that way to close the door for the night. But My Bunny, the one that thinks I’m her overgrown Dad, raced me to the door and got there first. I talked to her and asked her what she was doing in the shed and I soon saw that she was snooping around the bale of hay, bits and pieces of which we parcelled out to the bunnies all winter.
Then she hopped right up on the bale, turned and faced me and all but declared, “This is my hay! Get your own!”
But to be safe, if I find out this year that what wild bunnies need most of all is a 50-gallon drum of molasses, I am going to keep that information to myself.
©2023 Jim Hagarty
