In a quest to adopt a puppy, I've been to the local Humane Society a couple times this week. I've gotten to view several other animals during my visits, including pet rabbits. Now, pictures of rabbits are pretty darn cute, I admit. But encountering a rabbit in person, is pretty darn boring. What do pet rabbits do besides defecate profusely?
Yesterday, I saw a man who must have come to a similar conclusion on the utility of rabbits. While driving down the highway, I spot this guy next to his car on an adjoining street. He's holding a wire cage and a big brown rabbit is hopping away. I don't think it was an ex-pet, but rather a garden-eater. I doubt the people living a quarter mile away would have been happy to know about their new neighbor.Anyways. In honor of the rabbits and the impending Easter holiday, here is the news topic feature on rabbits for your reading pleasure. All news items have been published this week.
- Rabbits a great source of food - A response to an assertion in the Canadian paper by an animal rights activist that use of rabbits for food should be banned. The author, incidentally, has never tried eating rabbit himself.
- Kawkawlin couple's rabbits are popular at Easter time - This Michigan couple breeds rabbits. "At our house, if you're a rabbit and you get a name, you're safe from the pot.''
- Push for bilbies to oust rabbits this Easter - It is important for kids not to receive pro-rabbit propaganda, even during Easter.
- First reported case of rabbit fever in Thailand kills woman - Rabbits are dangerous!
- Good luck indeed: 53 million year-old rabbit's foot bones found - "What we have suggests that diversification among the Lagamorpha group-all modern day hares, rabbits and pikas-may already have started by the Early Eocene." Well, duh!
- Easter? Oh wake me up when it's over - "On the fourth day of Easter my true love gave to me: four chocolate bilbies, three elegant rabbits, two panatones and a Humpty full of Smarties?"
- Cwazy Courts - Apparently, rabbits are "nothing but furry termites."
- Chocolate bunny? It beats the Easter rat - When I saw the following joke, I knew I had to become a regular reader of this columnist: "The Dark Ages lasted from 476 to 1,000 A.D. - longer in Idaho and parts of Wyoming." Ha ha!
- Rabbit nutrition yet overlooked meat in U.S. - She tells us that rabbits have been seen as sacred in many cultures throughout history and that we should eat them.
- Man says he tried to heal rabbits - Farmer gets a court order to undergo a mental evaluation to determine whether he can continue to have animals on his farm.
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What do pet rabbits do besides defecate profusely?
They do little happy dances of joy called binkies.
They greet you when you come home from work with them. It's too adorable. It's anything from a little head thing they do to jumping in the air while doing the head thing.
They grunt when they are angry at you.
They nudge people on their ankles for attention.
They melt into the floor when they are being petted.
They try to steal your chocolate and fruit so you have to hide stuff like that from them.
Rabbits are awesome and make spectacular pets. But they are not good to give to little inexperienced children because they require quiet and a decent diet. Never junk bought from supermarkets, but hay and oxbow pellets and dark leafy vegetables.
They also are litter box trainable so they don't have to be walked like dogs and since they only make noise when they are angry or scared, they are very quiet.
But they might pee on things, which is really aggravating.
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