Thursday, March 31, 2016

A Little Tail before Breakfast

The local rabbits seem to agree with Erma Bombeck, who said that the grass is always greener over the septic tank.  Even though there is lots and lots of grass outside of the fenced in area, rabbits regularly enter the yard.  There have been numerous rabbit sightings, smellings, and compelling scat evidence.  Then there was the rousing encounter of a few days ago.



It was a morning like any other, the dogs go outside in shifts to do their business.  Lois and Henry are first- the benefits of seniority.  Suddenly, things came to a head, or rather, tail.  The sound of a rabbit screaming is loud and full of anguish.

That was the sound that brought me outside in the still dark.  This is what I saw.





Well.  The rabbit stopped screaming.  He was wedged in that fence very tightly.  Fortunately, after slowly pushing one hip, then the other, little by little through the chain link, the rabbit was unstuck.  Once free of the fence the rabbit turned tail (what was left of it) and ran quite fast away from his morning  nightmare.

Henry strutted around the yard carrying the trophy tail.  I took it from him and flung it over the fence.  The rabbit has not returned to claim it, as yet.

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  1. I knew Henry was cross-eyed.
    -Lois

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    1. Lois, I always suspected you notice more than you let on. You are a lady.

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  2. He couldn't catch a rabbit unless it was stuck or dead.
    -Clover

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    1. True that. Alas, he doesn't have sight hound powers.

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  3. What a maroon!
    -Lily

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  4. Say what you want! I'm still cute-even with rabbit hair in my teeth.
    -Henry

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    1. Gotta hand it to you, Henry. You know your strength. Your one strength.

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  5. At least someone got a little tail before breakfast.
    -THO

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  6. We raised a baby bunny who was almost lunch for my son's dog. That was over 25 years ago. My dad was mowing the lawn and hit a rabbit's nest he didn't know was there. Three baby bunnies fed the nest--we don't know where the mother was. One escaped, and Dad rescued the other two just in time. One didn't survive, but the other spent the rest of his life with us.

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    1. That must have really cool to live with a wild critter! All my critters are pseudo wild.

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  7. Oh no! Pinky loves chasing our resident rabbits but leaves the visiting ducks alone. Maybe quacking sounds worse than the bunny screams! LOL

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    1. If rabbits had wings, would it change anything, I wonder.

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