Since we rescued our rabbit almost one year ago, our dog has been desperate to get close enough to sniff and chase him. I don't want to think about what else she might do to him if she got close enough so we've been careful to exercise them separately in the yard, and covered the lower level of the rabbit hutch in chicken wire.
After a few months, we discovered the dog had managed to get the bottom level door open and climb in but thankfully she was too big to squeeze up the ramp to the top level, where the rabbit was safely sitting.
But today, when I let the dog out of the house and she went racing around the side of the house to the hutch, she wouldn't come back to me when I called her. When I went to investigate, I found her in the top level of the hutch along with the rabbit. I raced over to yank her out, for fear she'd attack the rabbit either deliberately or accidentally through rough play. But the rabbit and the dog seemed ok together. No fear from the rabbit or aggression from the dog.
Over the past few weeks, the dog hasn't been eating all of her food. Could she be smart enough to fast her way thin enough to squeeze up that ramp?
Tomorrow we'll investigate to see how she could have breached the small fence we've also erected around the hutch. She's either managed to jump over it (which would have taken lots of practise) or there's a hidden burrow beneath the hutch that she's infiltrated. Stay tuned...
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