A couple of cool rabbit photos

These are not my rabbits, but they do look at lot like Eleanor and Topsy. Probably why I like the photos—which I found on the net. I think the composition is interesting and not too “cute”. I really hate it when people think of rabbits sentimentally—as little, furry, innocents, designed to get an “Oh…. How sweet!” response. You know what I mean.

If you’re thinking about a rabbit as pet you should start looking at the House Rabbit Society website (see link in the left hand column of this blog). It all started with a book called The House Rabbit Handbook: How to Live with an Urban Rabbit when a woman named Merinell Harriman detailed several “life styles” of people living with rabbits, from rabbits in traditional hutches, to rabbits with cages who roamed the house some of the time, to rabbits who had the run of the house. I got the book when our first rabbit—a Chinchilla like Topsy and the first of these two photo rabbits—appeared in the side yard and we invited it in. Had it not been for The House Rabbit Handbook, I’d not have known you could litter train a rabbit. I’d not have known to protect the electrical cords either. As it was, the first day in the house the rabbit got behind the stereo and chewed several connecting wires.

The “life style” I remember most from that first edition was the student who didn’t have much furniture and bought a bale of hay every couple of months for a coffee table and for the rabbit to nibble.