A crow hand reared by a couple believes he's a rabbit and hops around a hutch - after being 'fostered' by their five bunnies.<br /><br />Jake the crow was rescued by Andrew Silverwood, 57, after he was found in the middle of a busy road with a broken leg when he was around two weeks old. <br /><br />Andrew and wife Suzanne, 56, brought him into their home in Ossett, West Yorks,. and let Jake stay in the hutch with their rabbits, Chester, Bella, Cilla, Marian and Mary.<br /><br />His stay with the family was meant to be temporary but they've decided to let him live with them.<br /><br />And he now always sleeps in the hutch and hops around with the bunnies.<br /><br />Hilarious videos show Jake cuddling with the rabbits and squawking with them - and one piece of footage even shows him eating hay.<br /><br />Andrew has said that the 'rabbits have accepted Jake as one of their own' and that 'everyone loves him.'<br /><br />He said: "He really does think he's a rabbit. <br /><br />"The rabbits have accepted Jake as one of their own.<br /><br />"He is so funny, he hops around with them. <br /><br />"Jake has taken on the characteristics of the rabbits, and we know when he wants feeding because he lets out a big squawk.<br /><br />"That's why we’ve named him Jake the really loud crow.<br /><br />"He also squarks to them, like a chick would do to their mum.<br /><br />"We've never kept him a cage, but he's just stayed.<br /><br />"We have had so many people coming around to see him, everybody loves him."<br /><br />Jake was found by a passerby after he had fallen out of the nest and had no way of getting back up to his mum and dad in the trees.<br /><br />The passerby then posted on a local Facebook group that they had found him and Andrew decided he would go and rescue him. <br /><br />Andrew said: "The person that originally found him thought he was a poo bag at first because he was just in the middle of the road. <br /><br />"I went down and picked him up but the parents were chasing me - they were swooping down on me. <br /><br />"Obviously he wouldn't have survived because a cat or something would have got him."<br /><br />Now Jake has settled into Andrew's family home, he eats with the rabbits as he believes they are his parents. <br /><br />Andrew, who owns a dairy business, said: "When we first rescued him, we kept hand feeding him.<br /><br />"He then kept going to the hutch every time he wanted food and we realised that was because, he thinks the rabbits are his parents.<br /><br />"He now eats their food and picks it off them - he eats their food but does prefer the dog food we feed him."
