Babies!!

One of the rabbits has produced a litter of babies for us. A few Sundays ago, while we were all at Church, our male and female rabbit chewed through the diving wall in their cage and we found them sitting together looking very happy on our return.

The babies are tiny - little pink bubbles and there are three of them. One of them fell out of the cage today - I found it squirming around lost - but it seemed ok - it was still pink and healthy so it has been reunited with its siblings.

The whole thing of trusting the rabbit, Chip, to do the job of mothering is difficult. Rabbits can be temperamental parents but if we look in too much we could potentially do more harm than good. So I hope the babies will be OK, if they survive these first couple of weeks they will not be babies for long.

So I go and check up on them frequently - I have never had an animal with babies before and simply being a spectator to the momma is harder than I would have thought. Human making it better is not needed - just food and water. Many reflections go through my mind about dependancy and when to intervene - I mean in life beyond the rabbit hutch. Perhaps I wish I understood a little better this whole idea of letting things be and, even, how God does that for us.