Urban Bunnies (Part two)

So, we were getting ready to head off to Colorado for a couple weeks and I was really afraid the rabbits were going to starve.  Add to this - the workmen had to bring in an equipment-mounted jackhammer in order to level part of the lot in preparation for new sod. 

Surely the rabbits just fled when the ground began to shake.

Still, I had a half hour between when I left work and Janie was off, so I ran over to the grocery store and bought carrots and celery.  I also thought, "What has long shelf life and doesn't require refrigeration?"  Cabbage.  So I bought a head of red cabbage too.

Up at the register a guy in a uniform was finishing a conversation with the cashier.

"I hope it all turns out okay."

"Yeah, we'll see.  These should help.  Bye, now."

I bought my vegies and walked the half block over to the bus stop.  I walked up the steps to the door and started dropping carrots and celery into the shrubs.

When I got to the cabbage I heaved it hard against the parking ramp wall so it would break up just a little.  Also I figured this would give any rabbits below a little heads up about the gods raining dangerous chow.

Behind me I heard someone say, "Feeding the rabbits?"  I turned to see a uniform, and I thought, "Great, I'm going to be detained - getting a ticket for littering.  Janie's going to wonder where the hell I am."

"They're over here" said the parking ramp security guard, and led me to a large planter, where four ravenous baby bunnies were chowing down on baby carrots he had just bought for them.

"I hope they don't jump out of there.  The traffic is pretty heavy here and people may give them a hard time."

"You know, I don't think so," I said.  "The older rabbits seem streetwise.  These ought to do okay too."

A Somali parking booth attendant came up.

"How are they?"

"Fine" we said. 

"For now."

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Janie and I returned from our vacation on the 16th, and a lush mat of fresh sod had been laid out in the triangle park.  Remember the place where the workers were tearing up the last bit of grass?  Check this out:

Janie and I were walking down by the park with a camera and we saw the first one, but he wasn't the big buck we saw before.  This rabbit was younger.  Another (my intuition told me she was a female) was running around in the bushes.  They appeared to be different sizes, and not from the same litter.  That was another encouraging sign. 

Maybe the jackhammers did scare the big rabbits away, freeing up territory for others to move in.

They were pretty skittish though. 

Good for him.

Good for her.

Relieved, Janie and I started to walk back to our flat.  The best surprise of the day was walking by the little patch of grass in front of Central Presbyterian Church.

This grass is no longer than any in the rest of the pictures.  This bunny was about the size of my fist.  I tried to get just a little closer (because for some reason all my rabbit pictures are a bit out of focus).

Zoom.

Gone.

Excellent.

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In case the title didn't tip you off, there's a part one to this.