grandma Peanut takes blueberries from my hand on 3 legs then nibbles & grooms with portraits (pt 29)

recorded 7.18 to 7.24.2024. Since I've been sharing Peanut footage that's sometimes similar (I recorded her for a few minutes every time I saw her), thought I'd mix it up and show a few clips over many days and then a bunch of portraits.
Video starts with Peanut taking berries from my hand. She's been looking so agile on her 3 legs and I decide it would be fun (for me) to hand-feed her berries again. I stopped after only a few times a month earlier because I didn't want to stress her out, even though she would have willingly continued doing it. Lots of nimble nibbles and at 2:28 we play a game I used to play with her all summer, find the strawberries. I'd throw the imperfect berries towards her and she's have to sniff them out. It looks like that's what's happening here. Then lots of portraits spanning 6 days.

Now that I know I only had a few more weeks with her before she passed, all this footage is precious to me. At the time I remember thinking how great it was that she had such a big appetite. Little did I know she was pregnant!!

***Reminder this happened over a year ago so please no tips or criticisms. Below is the same info as other videos showing her injured.

I’ll be sharing Peanut's extraordinary healing journey that took place from April to August 2024. She inspired me with her resilience, tenacity, and courage. Over time she became a 3-legged wild bunny wonder who was thriving! Sadly, her journey ended when she became a mama one last time. Pregnancy, nursing, and protecting their babies are all very hard on even the healthiest of mamas. It was too much for our sweet Peanut, but the fact that she was even able to birth and care for babies again is itself a miracle. And you’ll meet her last baby, who I of course named Miracle, later on. But for now, I know it’s sad to know the inevitable outcome, but I didn’t want to keep it from you and have you root for her and get even more invested/attached.

It’s taken me many months to get to a place where I could even write and share about it. Please be compassionate and not second guess or criticize us for what we did. As you’ll see, we took excellent care of her while allowing her to continue to be a wild bunny living in the only home she’s ever known. We spent hours with her each day and brought her nourishing food so she didn’t have to spend energy foraging. We made sure she had good shelters. And I closely monitored her health and healing. I took lengthy recordings of her to observe and document how she was moving and her overall condition. I kept track in a daily diary and she was actually doing well and became really strong …until she got pregnant. We did the best we could, but we didn’t stop her from being a mama. Honestly, we didn’t think she’d allow a male anywhere near her and the only male in our yard is docile Eggplant so she had to have been very willing. I believe she was. She’s mama Peanut and we still miss her like crazy.

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Mama Peanut was the inspiration and star of this channel. My first video post was of her birth on 4.25.2022, the first I'd ever witnessed. And then she became such a special bunny...long before this injury. She is my all-time favorite! All the bunnies born here in 2023 were Peanut's and many are still around, carrying on her lineage. She passed peacefully on 8.12.2024 right in front of our house, a place she hardly ever visited. She wanted to be near us and we were so grateful to spend her last hours with her. We buried her in our yard in her favorite hangout and I visit her daily.

All the bunnies on this channel are eastern cottontails (Sylvilagus floridanus), the most common rabbit species in North America.

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