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That bunny pic was taken last year...if you scroll down the comments you will see that it did very well and was able to be released back into the wild.
Every spring, a wild bunny would make her nest and have her babies in my parents' yard. My parents had--for many years, alas no longer--two labrador retrievers. Very nice, very gentle dogs. Still every year, the blonde dog, every year, would find the nest and roust the baby bunnies (he never hurt them). One year, I went to get the blonde dog out of the yard and he was was dancing and shimmying and wagging his tail like the happiest, proudest doggie in the known universe. When I got close enough, I saw a little bunny foot hanging out his mouth.
I was horrified and I told him to "drop" really afraid of what I'd find. Dog opened his mouth and slowly three baby bunnies, all covered in dog spit and looking dazed, plopped out. One by one, they hopped back to their nest. A couple of days later, I saw a handful of baby bunnies and a bigger bunny on the other side of the fence, staring warily at the big blonde dog sleeping in the sun.
Yi! When I was little, if you disturbed our domesticated rabbits' nests they'd eat their babies. It sounds like your wild rabbit wasn't so unhinged, thank god.
photo by splunge
photo by TheophileEscargot
photo by Kronos_to_Earth
photo by ethylene
