What kind of critter did this to my garage today?

[Rick Lee]

Hell no, I don't want one of those traps. God forbid I get a serious critter in there. Then what? Call animal control and get a bill for $50-$100? I'm not one to kill critters for no good reason, but I do not want them around the house and I don't want to get the authorities involved. I'd be tempted to drown whatever ended up in that trap in my pool and then bury it. Where I lived before we had a serious feral cat issue and there's nothing you can legally do about it.

[vash]

that is someone's pet! grab it and post up a better pic.

dont let your kids see it..or you will own it. good luck.

[Rick Lee]

Yeah, it probably was someone's pet. But we don't have a neighborhood email alert for such things and I knocked on the two neighbors' doors I know who have kids. Not theirs. I don't have time or desire to keep this thing hoping someone claims it before I go away for another two weeks in a few days. I let it go in the desert and the coyote who found it will be grateful.

[vash]

awww. dont release it. disease for the local population and it cannot protect itself from it's lack of instincts. the animal shelter will take it. i took one recently when a family moved out in the night and left the rabbit walking about. i found it on my walk to the worktruck. it was still there when i walked home. i approached it and grabbed it.

[Rick Lee]

It's long gone. Sorry.

[Joeaksa]

Rick,

We do have some wild ones like the one you caught around here but not many. The coyotes get them on a regular basis in our neck of the woods.

[Rick Lee]

Honestly, I'm not so sure this was someone's pet. I mean, there are always notes posted up on the mailbox cluster for this or that lost pet. This rabbit got in yesterday morning at the latest, so any kid who had such a pet would certainly have noticed it missing and put up a poster on the mailboxes. Nothing there today. I had the garage doors open all day and no kids came by or knocked on the door. Usually, putting the 993 in the driveway is a good conversation starter with the neighbors.

And this rabbit was swimming in my oil pan, so I don't know if it was naturally black or just covered in oil. And it was terrified of me. When my sister had a pet rabbit, it wasn't scared of us at all when we had it in the yard and then went to pick it up and put it back in its pen.

[RWebb]

you have to pay for animal control?

that does not look like any rabbit native to AZ BTW

[Rick Lee]

No, but when you bring in a trapped feral cat, they do charge to take it off your hands. Not sure how it works with a critter that might be wild, might be a pet.