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Contact a local veterinarian or animal shelter. Young, wild rabbits are very fragile and need special care, especially if they are injured. Many animal shelters will offer to come and pick up the rabbit at your home and take it to a local veterinarian or wildlife center to receive proper care.
Create a soft, warm place for the injured rabbit to rest until you can find a veterinarian. Use a blanket, towels or old pieces of clothing to make a bed. Place the rabbit in a dark room or place the bedding in a box to keep excess light out. Keep the temperature between 18 and 21 degrees Celsius. The rabbit should be warm, but too much heat can be fatal.
Check the rabbit's stomach to see whether it is sunken in. If it is, the rabbit is hungry and needs to eat. Look at the color of the skin and observe the rabbit's activity level. The skin should be pink, and it should seem alert rather than sluggish. Crying is also an indicator that it needs nourishment, as bunnies are usually very quiet.
Hydrate the injured rabbit. Only give an injured wild rabbit kitten milk replacement or goat's milk. Feed young rabbits only twice each day; overfeeding can lead to intestinal diseases. When the rabbit seems warm, alert and quiet, it is no longer suffering from malnourishment.
Introduce food to the injured wild rabbit once it is hydrated and its eyes are open. Give the rabbit alfalfa, hay, carrot tops or dandelion greens. Keep greens in a heavy mug of water that cannot be tipped over by the rabbit. If the rabbit seems healthy, is eating solid foods, is alert and is at least 5 inches long, you may release it back into the wild.