# Molly Cottontail — Wild Animals I Have Known character guide

> Molly Cottontail in Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Molly, the Cottontail, Poor little Molly, little Molly, Poor little Molly Cottontail

**First appearance:** 0005-raggylug

## Snapshot

A cottontail mother who teaches her son Rag to freeze, lie low, and trust the brierbrush — lessons that mean the difference between life and death.

## Who they are

Molly Cottontail raises Rag in a world where every creature is a potential enemy and stillness is the first law of survival. She passes down the old secret of the Brierbrush, the thorny ally that shelters rabbits because they alone among the beasts have never harmed its roses. Her patient instruction shapes Rag's early education and gives the story its tender, practical heart.

## Relationships

### [Ranger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wild_animals_i_have_known_se/characters/ranger)

_rivalry_

Molly is a prey animal constantly evading Ranger, a predator in the same ecosystem.

## In the story

### [Raggylug](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wild_animals_i_have_known_se/chapters/raggylug)

Rag's mother who teaches him essential skills and sacrifices her life to save him from a fox.

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