Robert The Rabbit Again
Robert In The Garden
A Read-Along Activity
The teddy bears wrote previously about Robert the Rabbit - a little, wild rabbit who came into their garden and hopped and skipped around, interested in everything. You can read that one again by clicking here.
They also told you that he nibbled on the tips of the grass blades where they were most juicy and tasty. What they didn't mention, and what annoyed them just a teeny, tiny, little bit, was that he didn't stop at just eating the grass!!
He seemed to particularly like to check out the pretty flowers that the bears grow in the garden, especially some daisy-like ones which are actually quite tall, and the bears never imagined that he would be able to reach up that high and eat them, but he stood up on his back legs and munched away quite merrily!
He also liked the broad leaves from those very same flowers, and he was caught on camera very greedily eating several at a time!! For a small rabbit, he certainly had a very big mouth!
He also seemed to like the leaves that had fallen from the apple tree, and, of course, he didn't have to reach up to eat those as they were spread all over the lawn.
The bears even caught him in their strawberry bed!! They very nearly did have to go outside and chase him off after they saw that!! And again, they didn't think he would be able to reach any strawberries as they are planted in a raised bed which is quite high off the ground. Of course they should have remembered that rabbits can actually jump!!
And they're also a bit annoyed that once he'd finished eating, he could just wash his face with his paws and not have to use soap and flannels to get himself clean like they do (although they do try to get out of doing that if they can!)
In an attempt to stop him needing to eat all their flowers and fruit, they decided to put out some slices of carrot for Robert, and they left them on an old tree-stump at the bottom of the garden. They were very pleased when he started to eat the carrots instead of their plants! They're just not sure quite how much a baby rabbit eats, as if he doesn't get enough carrots, he might resort to eating the rest of their garden!!
If you get any wild animals visiting your garden, ask if you can put out some food for them too. The bears already know how much rabbits like carrots!!!