Rabbit Regulation # 23.

I was just sitting on the back of the couch, in the sun room, surveying my kingdom.  And then I saw, what is that, a rabbit, no look again, a Mama Rabbit and her bunnies. Oh no, a whole rabbit family to destroy my RIP Daddy’s tulips, both the petals and the blooms, that flood our front garden in a Sea of Colours in the Spring. 

Then comes summer, those hoppity-hop nose twitching bunnies that resolutely pick every rosebud off the bushes, eat all the lettuce from the garden, right down to the ground and hide in the tall foliage in my flowerbeds in the back yard.  They are just a nuisance, I tell you.

Truly, I don’t know what to make of rabbits. Remember Grandpapa’s meeting with Peter Cottontail. Now that was a Rabbit! Then there was the lovable Thumper in Bambi. Yet, they seem so silent, hardly vocalizing, at least not when they are in our garden. Still, it gives me pause when they thump their mighty paws, and give me that red-eyed stare, their mouths and ears in constant motion. They fascinate me.   My loud barking traumatizes them so they dart away, jet propelled.  I just want to get closer to look at those pinned backed long ears, standing straight up especially, the pretty pink twitching ears of a white rabbit.

 

What makes me the most amazed, and I am no expert, but I am sure the same bunny can be white in the winter and turn brown in the summer.  Now that is a neat trick – like the Two Footed who go pale in the winter and tan in the summer sun. What gives? How come I am the same color all year round, I ask?

We dogs are so upfront and in your sorry face in comparison to a stealth rabbit.  Momma tells Super Boy that the dog who lives next door to him (who looks like a Professor to her) apparently thinks Momma looks like a bad guy, so always barks at her when she drops by his apartment.

Momma tells the Professor Dog, ‘SSSHHHH, you are a good doggie.’  He always stops barking and Momma swears he tilts his head, raises his bushy eye brows and says, ‘How do you know I am a good doggie?’ He just needs a pair of spectacles added and the whole world would recognize he was a professor in a previous life. Momma tells Super Boy to be sure to give him a treat.  The Professor Dog is doing his best to keep his Master and Super Boy safe.

That’s what we dogs do for the world at large. We protect our loved ones from the bad guys.  Still, I have a soft spot for those pesky rabbits because they have to use their wits to make it to tomorrow. And they all can not be Peter Cottontails and Thumpers. Therefore, I am telling you truly, I will continue to practise, ‘Do No Harm.’ Should I see one of our cats getting too aggressive with Mama Rabbit and her Baby Bunnies, I promise to take swift action….oh, and I will include a new Procedure in my Policy and Procedures for All Creation:

Regulation 23:                                                                                                                    All

Rabbits and their families shall henceforth be escorted off the  premises only by loud barking and /  or a fair chase.                                                              Subsection(A):    There shall be:

•  No interference or physical contact with any rabbit
•  No attempt to carry any rabbit
• No infliction of any harm or physical pain on any rabbit

Revised: 5/2/2015

What do you think? Are you on board?

Signed:                          Senorita Jakita of Jakitaville