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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People.  It's a rabbit.  Say it with me.  Rabbit.  You're not 3.[/quote]
It may just be a rabbit, but it was a family pet that my children really loved and had grown quite attached to in the 4 years we've had him.

And *I* might not be 3, but my kids are 10 and 6. This isn't about me - it's about the kids. [/quote]

NP here.  You are right to be upset.  When I was young, I had a pet mouse.  When he died, I was very upset.  I'm sure DCUM world would be like "it's just a mouse."  But I had him for a couple of years and had bonded with him.

And that's what is hard, that your kids were attached to the rabbit.

I have mixed feelings about how to proceed.  On the one hand, you don't want to needlessly extend your kids' pain.  It's actually probably best for them not to have any kind of drawn out ordeal with the other family, so that your kids can grieve and move forward.

On the other hand, it's crummy.  I get the kid is only 10, but at age 10, I would think she'd know better.  And if not, it seems the mother shouldn't have let her handle the rabbit unsupervised.  I mean, I'd want to know why she even had the rabbit outside anyhow.

All of that aside, have you all tried leaving some food out to see if the rabbit comes back?  You do run the risk of attracting raccoons.  But it might be worth a try.  I wouldn't just assume the rabbit is dead.  Perhaps you could ask the family to help you touch base with neighbors to see if maybe someone has seen the rabbit in their yard.  If the rabbit is white (easily distinguished as not a wild rabbit), then it's not a ridiculous thing to try.

Another thought is you might want to talk privately to the mom and ask if she thinks the rabbit might still be alive.  I only mention that because their story sounds a little odd, that the girl just left the rabbit outside while she went in to go to the bathroom.  Is it possible something else happened?  I'm not saying that they did anything intentionally bad.  But is it possible the rabbit died some other way and they didn't want to tell you that, so they thought it would seem less painful to say the rabbit got away?

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