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bridget_in_md 's review for:
Raising Hare
by Chloe Dalton
reflective
medium-paced
3.5 Stars for Raising Hare: A Memoir by Chloe Dalton. What a destructive, cruel being man is, how many living beings and plants he annihilates to maintain his own life. —Leo Tolstoy
During the Covid19 lockdown, the author worked from home in the UK countryside and found a leveret (baby hare, which is different than a rabbit, and in the US, called a jackrabbit) seemingly abandoned by her mother in the middle of the road. Dalton realised that if she left it there, it wouldn’t make it. Taking it home, she is wary about too much contact bc hares do not do well in captivity. Consulting with vets and library books, she learns how to care for it sparingly, until it was able to roam free in her garden, and then eventually the surrounding countryside. I think because the author was trying to not interfere with the hare to encourage it to return to the wild, I did feel some of the actions were absurd. For instance, Dalton wouldn't name the hare as it was a wild animal but then she would change her own routines and even blocked off some parts of her own house to not interfere with nature. While I can see the author was trying to keep the hare from depending on her and establishing trust, plus allowing her to observe it up close, it also was kind of strange to me to totally change your life for an animal you were trying to care for without domesticating it. "...this rare experience was a gift."
During the Covid19 lockdown, the author worked from home in the UK countryside and found a leveret (baby hare, which is different than a rabbit, and in the US, called a jackrabbit) seemingly abandoned by her mother in the middle of the road. Dalton realised that if she left it there, it wouldn’t make it. Taking it home, she is wary about too much contact bc hares do not do well in captivity. Consulting with vets and library books, she learns how to care for it sparingly, until it was able to roam free in her garden, and then eventually the surrounding countryside. I think because the author was trying to not interfere with the hare to encourage it to return to the wild, I did feel some of the actions were absurd. For instance, Dalton wouldn't name the hare as it was a wild animal but then she would change her own routines and even blocked off some parts of her own house to not interfere with nature. While I can see the author was trying to keep the hare from depending on her and establishing trust, plus allowing her to observe it up close, it also was kind of strange to me to totally change your life for an animal you were trying to care for without domesticating it. "...this rare experience was a gift."