I see that Debster answered your question correctly. I was contemplating answering newt, toad, hare etc for your brew - but then I know you wouldn't make a brew with bunnies (even if I would). Has someone lost a black familia - arrived home yesterday to find one asleep on the cat blanket on the sofa - no wonder ours don't use it anymore!
Posted by B on 13 April, 2009 at 11:58 AM
I'd love to tell you I'd take the bun but with 4 already...
It doesn't actually look old enough to have left its mother but given the way many irresponsible people breed and sell them before they're ready, I wouldn't be surprised to find it was an Easter present. Looks like a full-coated lionhead to me, btw.
Good luck on finding the owner - although you may find yourselves with a fluffy non-productive familiar... :-)
Posted by GoodTwin on 13 April, 2009 at 9:41 PM
please send the bunny my way and i will love it and cherish it and not treat it like what glenn close did to the bunny in that film. honest.
Soon after Mr BW went out to post 'found' notes through local letter boxes, I had a phone call from someone down the road I know who I'd rung the previous night, but who hadn't been in.
During last week she'd seen a small white bunny in the road, and had approached it to pick it up. She missed it and it hopped off into a house where building work is currently underway. She asked the builders who said there were a whole load of them that were allowed to free-range around, and the owner didn't care that they were continually in danger.
The 'owner' in question is an estate agent who has made a lot of money selling off brown field sites in the local vicinity for high-denisty housing estates for incomers. Sadly he has moved in near us, and now flaunts his ill-gotten wealth trying to live the life of a country squire, but with no understanding of country ways and no respect for anyone around him. The person I was speaking to told me that a couple of weeks ago he was firing a shot-gun on his land such that pellets scatered acrosss the road.
Anyway, before he got the bunny back he got a 5-minute school-marm lecture from me about the necessity of looking after one's pets and protecting them against things that prey on rabbits in the countryside, such as sparrowhawks, rats, bushy tails and cats, and the fact that myxomatosis is rife locally (I don't think he even knew what that was), and told that if I ever see or hear his rabbits not penned in or out and not under direct supervision again, I will have no hesitation in calling the RSPCA.
All he could do was shrug and say, "A few get out sometimes." He didn't even say thank you for looking after the little one. I have a horrible idea he may be allowing them to breed so he can shoot hell out of them... "Oh look city friends, most county bumpkins shoot wild brown rabbits, but me, I'm better than them, I shoot pedigree whites!"
I'm toying with the idea of having a word with the RSPCA anyway, just so he gets a visit and knows I'm not joking. I don't like him or anything he stands for, so I have absolutely nothing to lose.
I see that Debster answered your question correctly. I was contemplating answering newt, toad, hare etc for your brew - but then I know you wouldn't make a brew with bunnies (even if I would). Has someone lost a black familia - arrived home yesterday to find one asleep on the cat blanket on the sofa - no wonder ours don't use it anymore!
Posted by B on 13 April, 2009 at 11:58 AMI'd love to tell you I'd take the bun but with 4 already...
It doesn't actually look old enough to have left its mother but given the way many irresponsible people breed and sell them before they're ready, I wouldn't be surprised to find it was an Easter present. Looks like a full-coated lionhead to me, btw.
Good luck on finding the owner - although you may find yourselves with a fluffy non-productive familiar... :-)
Posted by GoodTwin on 13 April, 2009 at 9:41 PMplease send the bunny my way and i will love it and cherish it and not treat it like what glenn close did to the bunny in that film. honest.
Posted by edward on 13 April, 2009 at 11:31 PMThe cuteness of that bunny is too much to bear! I hope it comes to live with the menagerie.
Posted by jo on 14 April, 2009 at 12:57 AMSadly for the bunny we found its owner.
Good Twin is right about irresponsible though...
Soon after Mr BW went out to post 'found' notes through local letter boxes, I had a phone call from someone down the road I know who I'd rung the previous night, but who hadn't been in.
During last week she'd seen a small white bunny in the road, and had approached it to pick it up. She missed it and it hopped off into a house where building work is currently underway. She asked the builders who said there were a whole load of them that were allowed to free-range around, and the owner didn't care that they were continually in danger.
The 'owner' in question is an estate agent who has made a lot of money selling off brown field sites in the local vicinity for high-denisty housing estates for incomers. Sadly he has moved in near us, and now flaunts his ill-gotten wealth trying to live the life of a country squire, but with no understanding of country ways and no respect for anyone around him. The person I was speaking to told me that a couple of weeks ago he was firing a shot-gun on his land such that pellets scatered acrosss the road.
Anyway, before he got the bunny back he got a 5-minute school-marm lecture from me about the necessity of looking after one's pets and protecting them against things that prey on rabbits in the countryside, such as sparrowhawks, rats, bushy tails and cats, and the fact that myxomatosis is rife locally (I don't think he even knew what that was), and told that if I ever see or hear his rabbits not penned in or out and not under direct supervision again, I will have no hesitation in calling the RSPCA.
All he could do was shrug and say, "A few get out sometimes." He didn't even say thank you for looking after the little one. I have a horrible idea he may be allowing them to breed so he can shoot hell out of them... "Oh look city friends, most county bumpkins shoot wild brown rabbits, but me, I'm better than them, I shoot pedigree whites!"
I'm toying with the idea of having a word with the RSPCA anyway, just so he gets a visit and knows I'm not joking. I don't like him or anything he stands for, so I have absolutely nothing to lose.
Posted by Blue Witch on 14 April, 2009 at 8:19 AMMaybe he is setting up a glove factory?
Posted by Debster on 14 April, 2009 at 9:59 AMDon't Debster, just don't...
Posted by Blue Witch on 14 April, 2009 at 10:18 AMDefinitely call the RSPCA - 'a few get out' means lack of care and the new laws cover that; it's no longer limited to cruelty cases.
Posted by GoodTwin on 14 April, 2009 at 11:28 AM