Cougar Chronicle
June 5, 2026
Dear Calais Community - Now that the garden is planted, we need help caring for it over the summer so that we can have a healthy and continuing harvest when the students return to school in August! Please look at the dates below to sign up for a Monday-Friday week(s). The garden will need to be watered, weeded, and harvested throughout the summer months. (Watering will only be able to happen Monday through Friday due to staff needing to unlock the faucet, but weeding and harvesting can happen on any day.) Feel free to take harvested crops home with you to enjoy!
Breakfast on 6/12 was going to be Pancake Bites but will now be: Muffins
Lunch on 6/15 was going to be Hamburger/Cheeseburger but will now be: Spaghetti and Meatballs
While rabbits eat carrots, it’s not their favorite. When eating carrots, rabbits will often eat the
greens and not the orange part of the carrot. Rabbits enjoy weeds and really love eating dandelions.
Rabbits will eat hay 2-3 times a day but greens are a rabbit's preferred meal.In terms of their environment, rabbits need to have a habitat that has enough space to be able to move and jump around.
Adult rabbits should be in separate spaces. Rabbits are not social creatures and will fight with each other.
A female rabbit is called a doe and a male rabbit is called a buck.
Baby bunnies and mother rabbits can be together in a space. A buck and doe can share a space
together too but two does or two bucks together may bite each other, even if they are siblings.
Mother rabbits may eat their baby bunnies, if they think the bunnies are unhealthy or not nursing
well.
Mother rabbits may use some of their fur to line their nests for baby bunnies.
If baby bunnies look plump and healthy, they are getting enough milk.
Stay cool Cougars!
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