Years ago I had a fancy breed young rabbit that was injured as a nestling. My father bred rabbits at that time and we expected the tiny baby to die any time. But he hung on and hung on until he was weened. Then the other bunnies started getting so much bigger and reinjuring his initial injury, so I took him out of the cage to a separate one so he could die in peace. But he didn't die and I noticed that whenever he knew I was there he seemed more peaceful. I had a jumper with a big patch pocket right in the middle of the chest. So I wore that jumper for days (washing it at night) with him in the pocket for hours at a time. Later he was happy to be in a basket lined with a towel that I carried from room to room. He never soiled my pocket or his basket; he would wait until I put him in his litter box. He lived and grew to have a magnificent long coat (he was a Jersey Wooly -- like a mini angora) and a pixy sort of personality. Loved him to pieces. So I'm thinking the front carrier idea or a variation on it might just work for your baby. Sometimes they just need our presence. |