A Marine Was Raking Leaves When He Found A Baby Bunny. What Happened Next Is So Heartwarming!

When you work in the military, there are plenty of things that can take you by surprise. If you’ve been following your training carefully enough, you’re prepared for any situation at hand. It could mean the difference between life and death, and it’s all up to how well you can perform what you’ve been taught.

But nothing could prepare this marine for what he was about to face. When he was raking leaves one day, what he found underneath took him completely by surprise and changed his life forever. It was a litter of baby bunnies.

He found their dead mother nearby, and not wanting the babies to suffer, decided to take them in. He gathered them up and made a warm nest for them out of some blankets and sweaters while he looked up how to take care of them.

He started off by bottle feeding them ever day until they became used to him. He’d bonded with them so quickly that he even gave them names: Steven, Raymond, Vaughn, and James.

You can see from the video below just how much they care about his presence, as he feeds them very slowly with a dropper. The rest of the bunny’s siblings are still in their pen, waiting their turn for meal time.

But it was inevitable that his bunnies would start to get too big for their pen and start getting out on their own. That was when the marine decided to turn them over to a wildlife rehabilitation centre where they could stay until they were ready to be returned to the wild.

It’s likely that he misses the baby bunnies, but he definitely stepped into their lives at the right time so that they could have a second chance at life. Share away, people.

“I’m Not Leaving You, Mama!” This is What Love Looks Like.

UPDATE: Lizzie and Phantom are currently recovering in an outdoor koala ward within the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital . They’re doing swimmingly; Phantom is both gaining weight and exploring his temporary habitat. And of course, mama and baby are sharing more adorable cuddles! For most species in the animal kingdom, the bond between mother and baby is incredibly strong. That's pretty much inarguable. But last week, two koalas in Australia further proved it. After they were hit by a car, Lizzie and her joey, Phantom were welcomed into the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital. Six-month-old Phantom had escaped the accident unscathed. Lizzie, however, wasn’t looking so good, what with facial trauma and a collapsed lung. In order to survive, she needed to go under the surgeon’s knife. But this marsupial mama wasn’t alone during the life-saving procedure. Phantom accompanied her and clung to her as she received treatment. The vets let them be; Phantom was too y...

Stop holding the (2018) Yulin dog meat & lychee festival in Yulin, (Guangxi) China.

This "festival" is an event that starts on June 21st of every year during the summer solstice and it lasts for 10 long horrifying days in which 10,000–15,000 dogs (as well as cats) are tortured and then consumed. However, it is estimated 25 million dogs are stolen, sold, bought, and eaten every year with the illegal dog and cat meat trade. A larger percentage of these dogs consist of pets stolen right from their loving families. The rest of the dogs are captured strays from the streets and some raised in dog farms. After these animals are stolen, bought, or captured they are then transported for days without any food or water, crammed in tiny cages together so tightly that they are unable to even move. At the yulin festival, throughout those days, these animals will be hung, burned, skinned, boiled, torched, dismembered, electrocuted and beaten...ALIVE..out in the streets for public view. But If that isn't bad enough, they intentionally torture these animals in f...

Dead Sea Turtle Washes Ashore With Horrifying Wake-Up Call For All Humans

Smokey the Bear told us we were responsible for preventing forest fires. Crime dog McGruff helped us take a bite out of crime. Woodsy the Owl told us to “Give a hoot, don’t pollute.” It’s that last one humans seem to have a big problem with. Where a wizened old owl’s advice has fallen short, however, the tragic image of a dead Kemps Ridley sea turtle with a beach chair stuck to its back may prove more compelling. An eye-opening illustration of the damage human pollution has done to our oceans, images of this tangled turtle have been sweeping across the internet, first posted by Fort Morgan Share the Beach , a local chapter of the Alabama sea turtle protection nonprofit Share the Beach. The story these pictures tell is a dark one which, wildlife advocate or not, is hard to ignore. Source: Facebook/Fort Morgan Share The Beach The turtle was dead when it washed up onto the shore. “There was a heavy string around the chair that wrapped around the turtle’s neck,”...

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