Bunny!

The guest bedroom in our basement has an exit window, meaning there's a three-foot shaft with the bedroom window at the bottom, ladder rungs up the side, and a set of removable bars covering it. Last night, apparently, a baby bunny fell through the bars and landed in the shaft. It wasn't hurt, but it was there all day before anyone realized it. The poor thing must have been hungry and thirsty and terrified.

I opened the window and took the screen out, then managed to drop a milk crate over the bunny. It panicked, of course. It kept trying to get away, and even tried to leap out of the crate. It smacked its head several times. I laid a towel on the bottom of the shaft and scooted the crate and bunny over it, then carefully flipped it all over. The bunny calmed down a little once the towel covered the crate and it couldn't see anything.

I took the whole thing out to the back yard and gently tipped the bunny out. It sat there, stunned, for a moment, then realized it was free and bolted away. Hopefully, it learned its lesson!