Dumb and Dumber (A tale of two teeny buns)
Are you fucking KIDDING me?
After all my adventures last night, I get up this morning, and go out on the screen porch to enjoy my coffee. From the window well I hear an all too familiar dry leaf rustling sound. I look and over, yes, there's a teeny bun in the window well. Only I know it ain't my teeny bun, because he's still in the bathtub, enjoying his breakfast in bed:
Please meet Not-So-Teeny Bun. He's more like Teenage Bun and just as wily. Capturing him to remove from the window well was a bit more exciting, because he actually jumped in the window and ran around the basement.
Oy. Now I've got to figure out what to do with them, because if I just put them back outside, I envision having to fish them out of the window well every other day. Suggestions?
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OMG...this is getting almost comical (as long as it's not at MY house!)
Just open a wildlife sanctuary or something already. Forget Brain Tumour Hall.
How about covering your window well with one of those plastic covers meant to protect children/animals from falling into the window well while allowing a person to still escape should they need to. I know they use them in ND so I am sure you can find one other places in the country. Then, you could just release them back outside without having to fish them out again.
They are so precious. What are you keeping down there in the well? Do you have one male and one female? Do something quickly or you will have more bunnies!
Rather than invest in five or six window well covers--because you know there's no point in covering just one--I think you should just fashion a little ladder or stairwell out of twigs, or a 2x4, or something, so the idiots can hippity-hop their own way out of there the next time it happens. I imagine they're just going down there because it's cool and leafy--well, brown leafy, anyway. That, and the fast-spreading rabit/hobo rumor of some garden queen who feeds and shelters all those in need...
Or just take a hint from the universe and open that animal shelter!
Your basic 1x4 is fine.
It needn't go all the way to the top, as long as the animal can see that the top is close.
It is important, though, to wedge it in so tightly that the animal's weight doesn't make it wobble, because they really just don't like wiggly stuff underfoot.
A plain hunk of lumber may work, but if the slope looka too steep you can nail a couple of thin strips of wood sideways to make little steps, about six inches apart.
Our window wells are not very deep. I put a slab of brick in mine so the shrews and toadlets can get out. Once a toad and a shrew got stuck in the window well and the shrew ate the toad. Waaaaaaah. :(