Feathered creature Harry was ‘brought up’ by bunnies after being plucked from a trashed enclosure which was targeted by a golf club-wielding killer.

Harry and his five brothers and sisters were just tiny ducklings at the time of the June 2011 massacre, which also involved the use of a dog.

He now can’t bear to be parted from his adopted family and eats rabbit food, as well as sleeping cuddled up with his furry friends.

His lifestyle may sound quackers, but Pets’ Corner animal attendant Heather Morris wouldn’t have it any other way.

She told the Telegraph: “We’ve got a couple of large rabbits in here and they brought him up and now Harry thinks he’s one of them.

“He eats with them, he sleeps beside them, they lie across his back and they all share the same food.” Heather added: “He’s got his own wee bath and he’s quite happy. I feel it just wouldn’t be fair to put him back with the other ducks now.

“Harry’s settled and he’s happy with the rabbits.” The plucky bird is now known as ‘Harry The Wonder Duck’ because of his natural red superhero-like mask on his face.

A dog — described as ‘large and powerful’ by police — ran amok in Harry’s old home, but he and others miraculously survived the terrible carnage.

Heather said: “Whatever the mother and father did, they managed to protect all six of their ducklings and they all survived.

“The rest of the babies kind of carried on but Harry was always a wee bit more nervous, so we took him out until the enclosure was repaired.

“We took all of the ducks back down to it but when we took Harry down he started to shake.

“He was just a nervous wreck.

“We just thought, ‘We can’t put him through that, it’s not fair on him’.

“So we put him in with the rabbits, and we thought that once he was a bit older we could try putting him back down with the other ducks.

“But when we took him out he took a panic attack and started shaking again. So we just kept him here with the rabbits and it’s worked out fine.” Sadly, another of the Gourock petting zoo’s ducks, Sally, was not so fortunate.

She suffered a series of puncture wounds as a result of being attacked by the dog and needed emergency vet treatment. Despite initially surviving the ferocious onslaught, she passed away a few months afterwards.

Harry now plays with his adoptive mother, a large brown bunny called Buster.

Heather said: “She is the one who really took Harry under her wing, so to speak.” The Telegraph’s Justice for Pets campaign to get rid of a legal loophole which has spared the Pets’ Corner slaughter suspect from being prosecuted is rapidly gathering momentum.

More than 1,100 people online alone have already signed our petition to lift a six-month time bar and allow cases of such brutality to come to court whenever sufficient evidence comes to light.

The suspect was 18 when he was arrested in 2013 after police established a positive DNA match linking him to the appalling crime — but prosecutors couldn’t pursue the case because the breakthrough came too late.