‘My puppies tried to adopt their own pets’: Dog mom discovers 3 baby bunnies hidden throughout her house brought inside by her pups, but after finding and returning the 1st fur baby, momma bunny steps out of her home fur a cold confrontation

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Sep 15, 2026 7:30 AM EDT

With each passing year our doggos seem to be becoming more and more hooman. Whether it be the puppy strollers, the ever expanding range of clothing or the new wave of homemade dog food. Wherever you look there are signs that canines really are becoming our children. But in this tale of whimsical thievery we see an example of canines behaving like kids that is far less well known. Which is, when canines try to adopt their own pets.

Now, you can kind of understand where a dog would come up with an idea like this. After all, they see us adopting them, doting on them and taking care of them. So their understanding of the world is that as you age you begin to take others smaller than you under your wing. Little did their pawrent think that would be the case, nor that the pups would take matters into their own paws and pick up their own pets they found in the backyard. But there you have it, kids really do pick up the wildest and most subliminal things just from observing their pawrents.

So, the problem that this hooman had was in finding the bunnies that had been so well hidden by her bur babies throughout her house. While also trying her best to placate an irate momma bunny who has had her whole brood brought into this hooman's home. So before anyone dares tell you that canines are not the same as kids, you ask them if they have ever had to face off with a mother rabbit when their kids stole her babies.
 

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    "Update: found #4 inside the couch."
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    Bunny under a couch and bunny in a hand with dog in the background.

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    I was sitting and relaxing on the couch this evening when I noticed two of my puppies were staring into the third one's kennel with laser focus, which is
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    unusual for them because they usually respect each other's personal space. I assume they've probably dug something up in the
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    yard that they shouldn't have and so I go to investigate. The third puppy is sitting in her kennel with something dark colored curled up
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    against her so | reach in and what do I find but a baby bunny who thankfully didn't appear to have any injuries.
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    She had caught it outside (there's a rabbit nest under our shed out back) and carried it in through the dog door to her kennel without harming it in
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    any way other than getting it thoroughly slobbery. I had a good laugh, I carried it outside and set it down next to the entrance to
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  • Well, one bunny brought inside really is not that big a deal. Sure, it would not have been particularly nice for the bunny nor its momma to have it taken from its home and covered in canine slobber. But in the animal kingdom far worse happens on a daily basis, and so long as the bunny is returned it is on a no harm no foul basis. But as you know from the title of this story, this is not the end…not of the story nor of the bunnies that this pawrent is soon to find hiding throughout their home.
     

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    their little spot under the shed. I sit back down and start texting my family about this funny story when I noticed the dogs are
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    all gathered at the back door (doggie door access was denied for obvious reasons). I go have a look and I see what I'm assuming is Mama rabbit sitting
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    out in the middle of the backyard. I anthropomorphize her a little bit and assume she's feeling some kind of way about the events of this evening, which
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    would be very fair, so I go to the fridge to get a couple of carrots with the intention of tossing them over by the rabbit nest as some kind of compensation.
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  • Yeah, momma rabbit has more than enough of a point with this one. Who would not be distraught and enraged to find that their whole brood of baby bunnies has gone missing?! Not that our hooman pawrent is aware of this just yet… This pawrent was lucky this bunny did not go all Zootopia on her and take her down. Or maybe it was her generous offering of carrots which allowed the bunny to give her a pass and let bygones be bygones.
     

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    I go into the kitchen and I see one of the adult dogs staring intently under the china cabinet. What do I see when I turn on the dining room
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    lights and kneel down to see what's going on? Another baby bunny hiding and terrified. I returned him to the nest as well, left three carrots and I'm
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    going to Lowe's tomorrow to buy some fencing material. But if they keep bringing these bunnies inside I'm just going to set
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    them up and start feeding them and start an Instagram channel, because it feels like that's going to be gold.
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    ETA: mama showed up back in the yard so I got suspicious and checked the house again. Looks like all three puppies managed to bring in
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    their own bunny. I couldn't add the additional pictures and this time I got a video, but yeah, that's a thing that happened.
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