EDITORIAL: MAKE ROOM FOR RABBITS
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p1rat3
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Interesting article, but I was waiting for a climax or some sort of close. Even daily news paper editorials 'close'.
Still, she has a point. Although, not a very strong one. A rabbit superhero? A rabbit crime fighter? Actually I think I have seen both ofthose in comic books. Who would think turtles could learn Karate?
Jay
Still, she has a point. Although, not a very strong one. A rabbit superhero? A rabbit crime fighter? Actually I think I have seen both ofthose in comic books. Who would think turtles could learn Karate?
Jay
lovrabs
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I do agree with some ofher ideas. For instance, naming a computer mouse after arabbit. I find it very surprising that bunnies are lower thanmice on the totem pole! I don't agree with making a bunny ahero. I really believe they should stay where they are inchildren's books as little buds.
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Buck Jones
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Giant rabbits do attack, if not the Empire State Building, then sleepy little towns out west that have to be defended by the National Guard. Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun,et al in the horror thriller, Night of the Lepus,for which Rabbits Only Forumhosts an annual simultaneous internet connectiong and television screening across the country on the night before Halloween.
Rabbits aren't rodents, but are lagomorphs and are considered to be between a rat and a cat on an intelligence scale, both of which I assume are smarter than mice.
Rabbits have recently become the second most popular pet in England, I believe, where they have displaced the dog because it is so hard to find landlords willing to permit tenants to own dogs on their premises.
In spite of massive governmental efforts in Great Britain and Australia to totally eliminate their wild population, rabbits continue to avoid distinction and survive through genetic selection and innate craftiness.
They are very tough and can be terrible adversaries to their own kind when it comes to issues of territoriality and mating preferences. Some of the best descriptions of these behaviors can be found in R.M. Lockley's, The Private Life of the Rabbit published in 1964, which was the factual basis forRichard Adams' novel, Watership Downof1972.
Both make most excellent reading depending upon one's own predilection for fiction or non-fiction and both convey a sense of drama that can encompass a range offeelings that range frombravery, courageousness, and fear to love, sorrow and sadness in"rabbit proportion," if not epic proportion.
More thorough and recent ventures into rabbit behavior can be found inboth of Ann McBride's works, Rabbits and Hares of 1988and Why Does My Rabbit...? of 1998, and the amazing Internet site, The Language of Lagomorphs(http://www.muridae.com/rabbits/rabbittalk.html),1999-2001.
Any serious lover of our furry little friends would do well to read some, if not all of the titles above in an effort to get a much better understanding of their physical and psychological make-up.The magnitude and powers of observation of the creator of the latter's website are truly superlative and a wonder to behold. If nothing more at all, every rabbit owner should read this website at least once in their pet's lifetime.
Alas, much too many of us are too busy, too bored, or too lazy to do much reading anymore and would prefer to "see the movie" than actually study a topic. That is much to our national chagrin, I'm afraid.
Buck
Rabbits aren't rodents, but are lagomorphs and are considered to be between a rat and a cat on an intelligence scale, both of which I assume are smarter than mice.
Rabbits have recently become the second most popular pet in England, I believe, where they have displaced the dog because it is so hard to find landlords willing to permit tenants to own dogs on their premises.
In spite of massive governmental efforts in Great Britain and Australia to totally eliminate their wild population, rabbits continue to avoid distinction and survive through genetic selection and innate craftiness.
They are very tough and can be terrible adversaries to their own kind when it comes to issues of territoriality and mating preferences. Some of the best descriptions of these behaviors can be found in R.M. Lockley's, The Private Life of the Rabbit published in 1964, which was the factual basis forRichard Adams' novel, Watership Downof1972.
Both make most excellent reading depending upon one's own predilection for fiction or non-fiction and both convey a sense of drama that can encompass a range offeelings that range frombravery, courageousness, and fear to love, sorrow and sadness in"rabbit proportion," if not epic proportion.
More thorough and recent ventures into rabbit behavior can be found inboth of Ann McBride's works, Rabbits and Hares of 1988and Why Does My Rabbit...? of 1998, and the amazing Internet site, The Language of Lagomorphs(http://www.muridae.com/rabbits/rabbittalk.html),1999-2001.
Any serious lover of our furry little friends would do well to read some, if not all of the titles above in an effort to get a much better understanding of their physical and psychological make-up.The magnitude and powers of observation of the creator of the latter's website are truly superlative and a wonder to behold. If nothing more at all, every rabbit owner should read this website at least once in their pet's lifetime.
Alas, much too many of us are too busy, too bored, or too lazy to do much reading anymore and would prefer to "see the movie" than actually study a topic. That is much to our national chagrin, I'm afraid.
Buck
