2006-07-15 06:07:25 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
i walked up to a baby rabbit . it was so scared that it screamed really loud and fell over dead. just from looking at me !
2006-07-15 06:15:53 · update #1
Yes, unfortunately, and it will haunt me for the rest of my life. I was raised on a farm. When I was a young kid, about twelve or so, I was given my first (and only) gun, a .22 Marlin rifle. This was common back in the sixties in rural communities, a rite of passage. Perhaps they were getting us ready for Vietnam.
A friend came by and we went target shooting. I seemed to be a really good shot for a beginner. I was shooting the tips off of branches on trees, from a pretty decent distance. My friend couldn't hit anything. By then, I was showing off.
We had a big bramble bush in the backyard, maybe eighty yards away. I said, "Do you see where those two leaves come together on that one branch, way back there in the shadows? The ones that look like rabbit ears?" And I pulled the trigger.
I heard that horrible high-pitched scream, eerie and banshee-like. You never would have dreamed a scream like that could have come from such a small and gentle creature. I was way too shocked to do anything. I really had thought it was just another branch. Fortunately, mama cat heard the scream and was there in no time, instantly putting the young rabbit out of its misery .
I haven't shot a gun since, nor will I ever again. I had nightmares about that poor rabbit for a long, long time. Elmer Fudd I'm not.
2006-07-15 06:38:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 3⤋
Rabbit Scream
2016-10-01 04:22:44 · answer #2 · answered by gonzalescordova 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, when camping in the woods. Probably was 10-50 yds. from the tent, and this was at night. Sounded like a banshee and I was incredibly startled. High-pitched, loud, and spooky. Had no idea bunnies could sound like that. Found out what it was later on the internet, and I just hope the bunny was in fear and not being killed.
P.S. also once unknowingly stumbled near a Timber Rattlesnake in Virginia's Shenandoah Mountains while hiking. It shook the rattle and I had absolute cognitive dissonance because it (seemed at least at the time) as as loud as a nearby train would be, yet I knew a train wasn't there. Luckily the noise froze me or I might've gotten nearer and it may have struck (that warning evolution of their's sure works!) Rattlesnakes are VERY LOUD. Or at least that one was.
2016-05-22 19:12:53 · answer #3 · answered by Tongue 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had a rabbit when I was young. There was a storm warning and I went out to get her into her cage! She tried to run and I grabbed her tail! My mother was yelling GET IN HERE! When I grabbed the rabbits tail she let out a scream like I've never heard before!
Just last summer my daughter came running into the house yelling Mom! The cat's got a baby bunny!!
I ran outside and the cat was laying in a half circle panting with the baby bunny by her side! We tried to rescue the bunny but I think between her trauma and maybe injuries AND the fact that we took her in the house for 2 days... made her die of fear!
I do think it happens!
2006-07-15 07:07:10 · answer #4 · answered by Titzen_Ash_23 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, we used to have a pet rabbit and it growled when it got scared. Really weird sound. One day, a cat tried to attack it and scared the hell out of the poor creature...there were no injuries fortunately, but the rabbit screamed and went into shock for about three hours...it was cold and stiff and wouldn't move and it's heart rate and breathing were very shallow. It didn't die, but I'm sure that plenty of rabbits have died of fear.
2006-07-15 07:25:33 · answer #5 · answered by NA 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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When I had my rabbit it used to have free run of the house. It used to chase my cat!! One time she went behind the t.v. and got her leg caught up in a cord. When she realized she was caught she started screaming as she panicked. Unfortunately I cannot describe the noise to you very well. It was a high pitched sound of an animal in distress. It was HORRIBLE!!! I ran SO fast to her as a mother would do if her child screamed.
2016-03-26 21:02:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Baby bunnies are very sensitive, and baby wild bunnies are even more so. They can have heart attacks at the slightest sound that is out of place, like someone sneezing for example. You probably spooked the poor thing so bad, but that's to be expected. The scream was to warn the others that there was something there that didn't belong, when they are bigger they usually stomp their feet and grunt before they turn tail and run.
2006-07-15 15:05:27 · answer #7 · answered by santana84_02 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
RE:
have you ever heard a rabbit scream ?
2015-08-02 00:07:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You probably frightened it. Rabbits are very dumb, and if I wear a different coat, they will run around in their cage because they don't recognize me. Sometimes a rabbit can break it's back just from jumping wrong. When a rabbit is in pain, such as when a cat or a coon caught it, they will scream out in mortal terror.
I also had a pet buck rabbit that would grunt when I petted him. I also heard a frighten noise that they make when a lady didn't separate her does, and the less dominate rabbit was scared of her sister.
Rabbits can die from fright just because they are timid creatures.
2006-07-15 17:49:07 · answer #9 · answered by Amanda J 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋
first of all that poor rabbit, they get really scared and thats what they do is scream, then they go into shock and most likely die. i just feel really bad for that poor baby bunny
2006-07-15 11:00:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋