Because, whether you know it or not, rabbits are very often raised for meat. I have a friend who has a contract to supply fancy french restaurants (she also raises quail, lamb, duck, etc). She also shows rabbits and has some national winners. It’s a good little business because her winning show rabbits with the exact right markings etc. go for $250 on up, and if they don’t have the right markings they go into the Lapin a la Cocotte.
Parrots are far too expensive to butcher. What are people thinking?
The cutest rabbit in the world used to live in my house. Mosby had the softest long gray fur, a sweet little black face, one ear up and one ear down. He was so, so pretty, but he was a Very Naughty Rabbit. (Of course I loved him anyway) I can’t find any photos right now, but if I can find a photo that looks like him online, I’ll post a link.
I also used to have a chocolate-brown mini-rex, Billie. She was beautiful and smart, and she was like a real-life velveteen rabbit. That plushy rex fur is so soft and lovely, and I may be biased, but I think chocolate brown is the best color for rexes. I would clone her if I could.
Around 30 years ago, my parent’s house in Eagle River Alaska had a whole colony of orange-red, very long-haired, oversized rabbits living around. There was a new family under the shed every year, for example. Their ancestor must have been a pet escaped from somewhere nearby, because the local breed of rabbits was brindle grey-brown and turned white in winter.
Those redheads REALLY showed up against the snow; but despite the Bald Eagles stealing at least half of every litter every spring, they kept on keeping on for years and years, until my parents moved away. For all I know their descendants may still be there or nearby.
Wow. I never really thought about it, but those black otters are astonishingly beautiful.
Our neighborhood has wild bunnies living in it. Little Eastern Cottontails. There’s a bunch of them under one of our bushes but you see them all over the place. We’re just a couple blocks from the Little Cuyahoga. We also have hawks and owls. But the bunnies are proliferating, so that’s cool. I love living in the middle of a Mutual of Omaha special.
Eh. People molest children, whether you know it or not, but I don’t come into threads people post about their children and talk about sex abuse. And if someone did, I’ll bet it would get modded.
We have no indications at all that Eostre had anything whatsoever to do with rabbits.
The Bede wrote :"Eosturmonath has a name which is now translated “Paschal month”, and which was once called after a goddess of theirs named Eostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month. Now they designate that Paschal season by her name, calling the joys of the new rite by the time-honoured name of the old observance
That is the sum total of what we know about Eostre. In fact some people think Bede made it up.
We had some on the farm when I was a kid. Just your standard brown-gray rabbits. Now some friends raise & show purebred rabbits.
I prefer the solid color ones, rather than the varied or calico types. And I actually dislike the floppy-eared breeds. Otherwise they’re all just cute little bunnies.
Well I’m from Vancouver Island where wild rabbits are abundant. I just learned, from clicking your link, that they are Eastern Cottontails and are an invasive species brought here in 1964 :eek:
I had no idea!
Which got me wondering what did the cougars, wolves and eagles eat before the rabbits got here? They are the majour food source now for predators.
I’ve got a pair of angora/Flemish giant siblings at home that my wife picked up last fall. They are white with black markings, and not wooly.
We have them living free in the kitchen. It was the easiest room to isolate and because of appliances and cabinets, there’s no cables or anything near the floor for them to get into. But they still cause a lot of trouble; they are like a couple of adorable little tornadoes. At any given moment I don’t know if I want to hug them or smash their little heads in with a hammer.
