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["Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>]

I read that many baby animals have little scent in the nest. 

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From: Hilborn.E@epamail.epa.gov
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Rabbit nest
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:29:14 -0400

>I was working in my fenced orchard yesterday when my dog stepped on
>something that gave out a loud squeak.
>
>We both started digging and I found a shallow, loose nest lined with
>soft hair and 4 adorable baby rabbits, about 3 inches below the
>surface
>of the lawn next to a mulched bed.  They were apparently close to
>weaning as their eyes were open and they were about 5 inches long,
>They
>were apparently healthy and fat (they should be fat  - they were fed
>on
>milk made from my well-cultivated but decimated soybean crop!).
>
>Anyway, I disposed of the nest with some mixed feelings (why do they
>have to be so darn cute?).
>
>I am now piling a gravel mixture mounded up along my woven wire
>fence. I
>think that rabbits have been slipping under the fence where small
>gaps
>exist between the wire and the ground.
>
>My question is- why didn't my dogs smell those babies?  It seems
>incredible to me, that my sharp-nosed hounds were lying right next to
>that nest.  We never would have found it if a paw had not made a
>direct
>hit.  I am concerned about other nests lurking about.  There was
>certainly no visual cue that a nest existed there.
>
>Any thoughts on how to find these nests?
>
>Betsy Hilborn
>7a NC
>
>
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