World rabbit appreciation day ?!?!

Aug 24, 2007 at 6:33 PM
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So... I just learnt from e2c's, IG's and Indy bunny's voxes that there is such a thing as worldwide rabbit love + appreciation day - and it's today!
So to honor this important day, I'll show you my rabbitses... They are all over the rainbow bridge by now.

Samson in harness

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Most important is Samson... In spite of the name, she was a girl (As Teho says... Ze fluff, eet obscures...) She was born when I was 14. She was the only grey in a litter of black and brown babies - That's her with her mom in the picture.

Samson babypic

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We were a bunch of kids keeping rabbits and guinea pigs at a playground. But when this litter of 7 were born, those of us who could took one home and we had to adopt the others away. Her mom died when she was only 1 month old, but fortunately that's just old enough to wean baby rabbits in an emergency, because the bottle feeding was tried and utterly failed. (7 rabbitlets smeared in formula to behind the ears and still no clue on the concept of bottles.)

Samson was my favorite rabbit ever.

She lived with me for 6 years and was loads of fun.... though she could disapprove (obviously) I don't think of her as a very disapproving rabbit. She was more curious and happy-binking, with occasional grumpy days. She died of pneumonia - it took only hours from the moment I realized something was wrong and there was nothing the vet could do.

I can haz apples!

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I have had loads of other rabbits that I don't have pictures of... from that playground when I was a kid. But I had one bunch after Samson... I found this Flemish giant rabbit hopping around outside my apartment building one day. (Not sure she's a pure Flemish, but she definitely has some in her)

Giant with baby

Boyfriend-at-the-time and I stood and watched it from our window and got into a stupid argument about whether it was a rabbit or a hare... I ended up going out to pick it up to prove it was a rabbit... and then... I was stuck with a new rabbit... and next morning she had given birth to 5 babies (I dunno why these things always happen to me). So I went around trying to find the owner, and the neighbors who had rabbits weren't missing any... so I ended up raising them and adopting them all away - I didn't think our balcony was an appropriate long term rabbit home. Here's one of the babies. They were very cute and very pretty... all with black eye-liner. I was teaching at the time, so most went to my students and I heard back from them for years... I think they all became pampered house rabbits.

Baby giant

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Samson is so handsome! (Girls can too be handsome...!) And all the others, of course being bunnehs, are totally lovable and sweet! Thanks, Drude.

What beautiful bunnies. Samson looks so regal, even in a harness.

"This contraption does not diminish my awesomeness."

I love the way stupid argument ends up with bunny in apartment.
And immediate litter of buns.
Giant clearly knew where to go looking for a nursery.

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"This contraption does not diminish my awesomeness." nail on the head, amy!

"pampered house rabbits"

The best kind!

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Of course she had babies the morning after she adopted you!!! It's the way of stray critters.

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Yay! Congrats on the well-deserved [TIG]!!

Samson is gorgeous, and I know why these things always happen to you...and probably you do too! ;-)

The baby pic is to die for! squeeeeee city!

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congrats on TIG! yay for the bunnies!

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omg i had no idea!! it already passed but i am going to celebrate it late. My bunny will be getting a special treat...actually this is nothing out of the ordinary=]

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beautiful bunnies!

Yay... I got TIG'd! Woohoo.
I don't understand how this works... Indy Bunny should SO have been the bunny to get TIG'd on bun appreciation day for not running mr. IG into a tree...