{"id":5914,"date":"2018-05-10T19:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T19:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/?p=5914"},"modified":"2019-06-18T00:30:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T00:30:40","slug":"eastern-cottontail-rabbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/eastern-cottontail-rabbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Cottontail Rabbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5915\" src=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cummington-Cottontail-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"A rabbit sitting hay eating some greens.\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cummington-Cottontail-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cummington-Cottontail.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>On July 18, 2017, <a href=\"http:\/\/cummingtonwildlife.com\/\">Cummington Wildlife Inc.<\/a>, of Cummington, Massachusetts, received a juvenile Eastern cottontail rabbit. The rabbit had been caught by a cat, but luckily did not suffer any life-threatening injuries. However, the frightened rabbit did not want to eat in captivity. This is not uncommon for the &#8220;jumpy juvie&#8221; Eastern cottontail.<\/p>\n<p>A trick that has been successful in the past is to tube feed the rabbit with hydration fluid and the <a href=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/emeraid-herbivore\/\">EmerAid Intensive Care Herbivore<\/a>. The feeling of fullness in the rabbit&#8217;s stomach appears to help it overcome fear and begin self-feeding. This occurred very quickly in the cottontail, who began self-feeding the following day. After completing an antibiotic treatment for wounds suffered from the cat, this rabbit was able to be released back into the wild.<\/p>\n<p>Posted on May 10, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cummington Wildlife helps rescue a young Eastern cottontail and nourishes the rabbit with EmerAid IC Herbivore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Eastern Cottontail Rabbit - 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