# Keep rabbits away from toddlers or tragedies can occur! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 25, 2004, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-rabbits-away-from-toddlers-or-tragedies-can-occur/236454 "2004-03-25T23:09:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-rabbits-away-from-toddlers-or-tragedies-can-occur/236454/1 "2004-03-25T23:09:16Z")
[Cute bunny packs a bite](http://www.mlive.com/news/sanews/index.ssf?/base/news-10/1080055226306610.xml) > [@](#): > > Most see rabbits as cute, fluffy, bouncy animals that can brighten any child’s day. They also have a killer bite. > > A 2-year-old St. Charles girl is recuperating today after her pet rabbit bit her last week, severing her right index finger at the knuckle. > > Although such injuries by rabbits are very rare, animal experts say the incident points up the need for safety around rabbits, especially with Easter and Peter Cottontail fast approaching. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-rabbits-away-from-toddlers-or-tragedies-can-occur/236454/2 "2004-03-25T23:25:23Z")
Evil Rabbits! Has a Monty Python feel to it. I still have a scar & altered fingerprint on my index finger from when a bunny got hold of it and started nibblin.’ I was 6. Ma took me to the hospital, I got some stitches. We ate the rabbit the next night. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-rabbits-away-from-toddlers-or-tragedies-can-occur/236454/3 "2004-03-25T23:28:55Z")
Bahhh, that’s nothing. I’ve seen a hamster bite through to the bone. Greedy little bugger. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-rabbits-away-from-toddlers-or-tragedies-can-occur/236454/4 "2004-03-25T23:29:33Z")
Ah, this reminds me of the time I had to club a rabbit to death with a sand wedge… * * * She told me she loved me like a brother. She was from West Virginia, hence the Joy! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-rabbits-away-from-toddlers-or-tragedies-can-occur/236454/5 "2004-03-25T23:41:05Z")
> [@astro](#): > > [Cute bunny packs a bite](http://www.mlive.com/news/sanews/index.ssf?/base/news-10/1080055226306610.xml) [Payback for Plant City](http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0325rabbits25.html)? ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-rabbits-away-from-toddlers-or-tragedies-can-occur/236454/6 "2004-03-25T23:59:43Z")
If somebody never thought a rabbit would do something like that, they didn’t know enough about rabbits to be keeping them as pets. I bet she didn’t think a rabbit would claw the living crap out of somebody either, or try to disembowel an animal with its hindclaws. It’s like somebody saying, “I knew the dog snarled and growled a lot, but I never thought it would bite me.” _Any_ animal will bite under the right circumstances, with potentially disastrous results. And rodents and lagomorphs have especially nasty teeth. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-rabbits-away-from-toddlers-or-tragedies-can-occur/236454/7 "2004-03-26T00:09:08Z")
I _always knew_ that someday, the tender sweet carrots from my garden would not be enough! It’s time for payback!!! LET US TAKE UP ARMS DOPERS!! COME! JOIN MY COALITION OF THE WILLING! In the future, they’ll make a movie about our noble struggle! “Ram **Bosda** : First Hasenpfeffer!” ---
**Author:** ![YellowTail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b5ac83/32.png) [@YellowTail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YellowTail)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-rabbits-away-from-toddlers-or-tragedies-can-occur/236454/8 "2004-03-26T00:49:26Z")
Those buggers can kick the crap out of you when you try to hold them and they have nasty, sharp, little claws. ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-rabbits-away-from-toddlers-or-tragedies-can-occur/236454/9 "2004-03-26T01:27:32Z")
Why would a person let a TODDLER handle a rabbit? They are not just little balls of fur to be cuddled. I would say the parent/caregiver here failed miserably. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-rabbits-away-from-toddlers-or-tragedies-can-occur/236454/10 "2004-03-26T03:11:21Z")
Two year olds do not need pets. Period. End of story. If you’re still kinda iffy on getting to the toilet, you don’t need an animal. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-rabbits-away-from-toddlers-or-tragedies-can-occur/236454/11 "2004-03-26T03:18:01Z")
> [@GMRyujin](#): > > Two year olds do not need pets. Period. End of story. If you’re still kinda iffy on getting to the toilet, you don’t need an animal. Damn, there goes the cat I was planning on getting. ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-rabbits-away-from-toddlers-or-tragedies-can-occur/236454/12 "2004-03-26T07:37:10Z")
Teeth and claws, people… teeth and claws! Almost as scary as raging squirrels. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-rabbits-away-from-toddlers-or-tragedies-can-occur/236454/13 "2004-03-26T12:42:39Z")
That was no ordinary rabbit! /had to say it, no one else did ---
**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-rabbits-away-from-toddlers-or-tragedies-can-occur/236454/14 "2004-03-26T14:11:54Z")
…“Right, One Rabbit-Stew, coming riiiight Up” ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-rabbits-away-from-toddlers-or-tragedies-can-occur/236454/15 "2004-03-26T14:13:38Z")
> [@Jean Grey](#): > > That was no ordinary rabbit! > > /had to say it, no one else did It’s just a harmless little bunny, isn’t it? Anybody have a Holy Hand-Genade? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-rabbits-away-from-toddlers-or-tragedies-can-occur/236454/16 "2004-03-26T15:02:17Z")
I really dislike handling rabbits. They can scratch the crap out of you, and rabbit bites, even when they don’t sever anything _hurt_. And bleed a lot. Never feed a rabbit baby carrots while holding the carrot between your index finger and thumb; apparently thumbs look a lot like carrots. Now I’m glad that it was me who got bit by my rabbit, not my brother by his, since he was only 2 at the time, just like the kid in the story. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-rabbits-away-from-toddlers-or-tragedies-can-occur/236454/17 "2004-03-26T15:16:57Z")
It was probably a [Devilbunny](http://www.devilbunnies.org/). Devilbunnies will stop at nothing to subvert humanity, and they have no hesitation at all in eliminating those who get in their way. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-rabbits-away-from-toddlers-or-tragedies-can-occur/236454/18 "2004-03-26T15:20:00Z")
I expected the article to show how the rabbit-owner did something really stupid. Well, whaddya know. My husband used to manage a pet store and he says the only animal that never bit him was a guinea pig, though even they will bite on occasion. It always baffles me when people buy hamsters for their children–they are vicious little animals. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-rabbits-away-from-toddlers-or-tragedies-can-occur/236454/19 "2004-03-26T15:21:03Z")
“We can’t risk another assault! That rabbit’s dynamite!” /monty python ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-rabbits-away-from-toddlers-or-tragedies-can-occur/236454/20 "2004-03-26T17:29:51Z")
Rabbits are to be eaten, not kept as pets. They are good fried, roasted, stewed, jugged, baked, ground into sausage, etc. They’re low in fat and quite tasty. This parent fails on many levels all the way from lack of sufficient concern for the child’s safety on up to not teaching the child not to play with its food. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-rabbits-away-from-toddlers-or-tragedies-can-occur/236454.md?page=2)