We have an injured rabbit also

Odd day.  Happily the school supplies arrived.  Nearly as happily TallGirl only spent 2 hours texting her friends before giving me the promised help in the garden...

Then the day took a funny turn and I can't be mean to TallGirl now.  Our neighbourhood has three main cats: one doesn't seem to catch creatures, or if it does it eats them secretly.  The second catches things and eats them, after showing them (dead) to it's owner.  The third catches things and plays with them - half alive - then abandons them.  It never seemed to learn the eating bit.

Normally we find it torturing a lizard.  Today, a baby bunny.  The boys chased the cat off and came to get TallGirl to deal with the rabbit.  It was clearly in shock - not moving just panting - so I suggested putting it in a cardboard box to give it a chance to get over its shock.  It still wasn't moving after a few hours but, against my better judgement, I was persuaded that we should try and save it.  So it went into TallGirl's previously unused hamster cage, with straw, a little blanket, some water, grain and carrots.  (The latter two at the suggestion of a local grandpa who keeps rabbits.)  It looked on the way out to me...  Internet research revealed that kitten milk (??) would be just the thing.  So I obediently tacked that onto the bread run this afternoon.  And, just to raise all our hopes, it licked lots of the milk off the cloth we dribbled it on to.

And then promptly died.

TallGirl is, naturally, unconsolable.  She has wanted a rabbit for so long, and I think she thought this might be her chance.  And all my efforts at doom-mongering all afternoon were for nothing.  In my view it was paralysed - cats generally shake creatures to break their neck - and didn't have a chance.  

So, here are Roger's (of course) dandelion leaves, with which we were going to tempt him before we found he had shuffled off to that clover field in the sky. 

And, yes, we do have a shower tray in the hall.  I'm sure you would expect nothing less from us.