An almost bunny incident

I let the paws out this morning and walked out with them.  I noticed they were immediately focused on something in the pool so I walked over and noticed a little tiny bunny – IN MY POOL.  The paws were chomping at the bit to get to little mister bunny so I had to act fast.  The little guy was scrambling and I’m fairly certain he wasn’t a strong swimmer.  Obi-Wan was out front washing my car and I didn’t want to deal with innocent little mister bunny carnage.  I yelled and yelled trying to bribe the dogs to go into the house with anything I could think of and finally got them inside.  Then I went over to the pool and scooped out little mister bunny.  I wasn’t sure what to do with little mister bunny so I carried him across the backyard over to the fence and gently set him down so he could go into the woods behind our house.  He was squeaking a lot when I walked him across the yard and he was not much bigger than my hand.  I have no idea where the mother is/was but he’s been spotted in our yard the last few days apparently.  I told Obi-Wan and he said I should have put him back under our deck and I told him that I didn’t realize he was hanging out under there, plus I didn’t really want to place him anywhere in our yard that the paws could reach him b/c there would be bunny carnage for sure.  I didn’t want to be an accomplice to bunny murder.  Poor little mister bunny – I hope he is okay out there in the wilderness.