Yellowknife family rescues baby bunny

A Yellowknife family is nursing a baby rabbit back to health after finding it abandoned in their yard.

Marco Bilodeau was cutting his grass when he found the rabbit on his lawn, tiny and limp.

"Suddenly I saw something moving, kind of black, so I said, 'What's that?' and it was him," he said.

Bilodeau says it's common to see a fox or coyote in his backyard, and that he's lost a cat to the wildlife. He's sure that's what happened to this rabbit's mother.

So he brought it inside and for the past two weeks the Bilodeaus have been nursing the rabbit back to health.

Bilodeau, a long time hunter, said he friends are teasing him for his new role as bunny mommy.

"'Before it was more the time to kill them than eat them, but now you try and save them? What's happened to you? The North's not good for you.'"

Bilodeau plans to eventually give the orphaned rabbit to a local hobby farm, but if his three children have their way, the rabbit will stay.

"Oh my God, there's a rabbit in my house," said his daughter Clara.