I’m not sure how I forgot about the line from Watership Down (truly a classic moment in literature), but I can at least point out that it’s Lapine, not Lupine. Lupine would be wolves, which would be considered very embleer by the rabbits (“embleer” literally means “smells like a fox”).
Ah, thank you, Chronos. It’s been awhile since I read it. I know bovine, ursine, and ovine…I thought I knew Lupine/Lapine, too.
(And a bit more of ivylass’s ignorance flakes away…)