The leverets stop taking milk from their mother after three or four weeks. They are fully grown in six or seven weeks. Female snowshoe hares can mate during the same day that a litter is born. They can have four litters a season. The young rabbits of one season can mate and have their own young in the spring following their birth.
Snowshoe hares stay in a small area that scientists call a home range.
This is only about 1.6 to 4.8 hectares, the size of three to ten football fields. The size of the home range is smaller if there is a better food supply and more to eat. Their home ranges usually overlap. The number of snowshoe hares is not controlled by their predators. The enemies of the snowshoe hare include wolves, coyotes, foxes, lynx, bobcats, hawks, and owls.