It began as a simple walk in the forest. A dog wandered off into the underbrush and returned to its owner carrying something strange — a tiny, pink, hairless creature. It wasn’t a stick or a wild animal, but something fragile and unknown.

When photos surfaced online, guesses flooded in: a baby squirrel, a kitten, maybe even an alien. But experts at the Heart of the Forest Rescue Center revealed the truth — it was a newborn domestic rabbit, blind and furless, unlike wild rabbits that are born covered in fur.