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releasing baby bunny into the wild.?

i let my 2 cats out for awhile today, so they could jump aorund and get some exercise and play with the dog a bit(small dog -he doesn't hurt them) and Roo found an animal in the backyard. I heard squealing so i followed her into the garage where i saw that she was carrying a tiny little bunny. so i told her to drop it and when she did i grabbed it and brought it inside. i planned to take it back out right away, but i couldn't find the mama and didn't want to just "set it down" being the dog was there and all. so i went to walmart and got some food, woodchips, a water dispenser, kitten milk replacer and two little eye droppers. i carried him around for live five hours, because i didn't want to leave him home...he might've died! so he was warm i had him in a little towel. then i tried to feed him some pellets, couse i read online that if their eyes are open you can feed them grass and pellets, but he wasn't interested. then i wrapped him up in a little blanket/hand-towel, laid him on his back, and fed him from the syringe. once he found it he started hiting it and sucking and his cheeks were puffing in and out. he put his front feet up like he was nursing it was so cute but then a little spilled down his neck and he spazzed out and dove under the towle a little bit. now i put him back in the make-do cage and he sat up for awhile, looked like he was holding something between his paws, and now he crawled back into the little tunnel his towel had made. his cage has woodchips all over and a bowl of pellets in the corner, a little hamster-water-dispenser-thing by the pellets, and then a towel in the corner, huddled up like a tunnel. It's a bird cage but it's all i had on hand and it's very wide at the bottom - wider than a hamster cage. i included some pics for size and age accuracy =) size: http://s564.photobucket.com/albums/ss86/shooeyloo/?action=view&current=bunny.jpg closeup: http://s564.photobucket.com/albums/ss86/shooeyloo/?action=view&current=bunnytwonie.jpg so my question is, when can i release him back into the wild? since i've been holding him so much, will i even be able to? i'd like to kepe him as a housepet but would that be cruel i mean considering he's wild. and when i fed him, i fed him water not milk - is that ok? shoudl i have fed him kitty milk? kind of a wreck lol it shook me up seeing blood on his side and seeing my cat bite into him like that (didn't know she was so vicious lol)...he's alright though the blood dried and nothing fresh. we also covered his cage with a blanket with just a little peep-hole. is that to much?

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1. He'll die if you let him loose because odds are the mother won't find him. He's not old enough to survive on his own. Google "wildlife care center" and where you live. Call them and have them come pick him up. You can also call a local vet and ask them who picks up/accepts orphaned or injured wildlife. Understand that the likelihood of this bunny surviving is VERY slim. And your cat probably killed all his siblings. Cats hunt for sport - not for food - and can eliminate entire populations of songbirds and small animals. Why don't you keep your cat indoors where he belongs so he doesn't keep killing off the wildlife? http://www.thepetcenter.com/imtop/speaker3.html