Rabbit chase
While I was playing the piano yesterday, someone knocks on my door. Eeek! Someone was listening to me play?
“Who is it?”
“It’s M! There’s a rabbit in your backyard!”
I open the door to see my neighbour in her pyjamas. “There’s a rabbit in your backyard and my dog keeps trying to get it, so we better move it,” she explains.
“Ummm… Ok, come around…”
“No wait, we better block your gate up so it can’t get out.” I find something to block the gaps in the gate and we walk round to the back. “Do you see it?” she asks.
I squint. “No.”
“OH LOOK, THERE IT IS!” She sprints off towards some fuzzy little grey thing hiding in the grass. My brother comes out in his pyjamas as well. “What?” he looks puzzled as M chases the rabbit into a corner.
“A rabbit,” I explain, as M suddenly yells “It’s gone under the airconditioner!” Michael runs off to grab a broom to poke it out from under there. He sweeps it out and the furry little grey thing starts running around looking for an escape route, but no! There are three tall human things freaking it out and waving brooms!
I suspect that rabbits have amazing vision, because it found a gap in the gate that we did not see when we were covering it up.
It scuttled across the road and under the car of the people across the road.
“M, is this over yet? Can I go back inside?” I ask, getting annoyed with this ball of fur. Too late. M had run across the road, chasing the rabbit. Eventually it got into someone else’s backyard, which Michael and M snuck into. It started running around and at one point, began running to me. I am not an animal person. I do not appreciate animals, even tiny furballs, running towards me! I started backing away, until it saw me and turned around. Eventually it found a hole under a fence and escaped.
“It’s gone into my school!” M cries out. (We live near a school)
Thank goodness she didn’t keep chasing it.
(This has NOTHING to do with rabbits, but would anybody consider putting bombs in a rubbish bin?)
# Amber, 1 year, 9 months ago.
My mum thought my bunny was dead once because it managed to escape. We found it two hours later under our car outside, curled up in a ball, shaking, and making these funny whimpering (squeaky) noises.
EMBRACE THOSE ANIMALS!
(Okay, I don’t touch my bunnies either.)
# Amber, 1 year, 9 months ago.
Dammit, I keep leaving the wrong URI.
# Jordie, 1 year, 9 months ago.
Lulz. I’d take rabbits to spiders any day. I cannot figure out how they keep getting in, but I am seriously considering sleeping with a can of insecticide.
# Tracey, 1 year, 9 months ago.
Amber, I still do that, so don’t fuss! I’ll go through my database and change all your links for you!
Oh yeah Jordie, I’ll take fuzzballs over spiders as well…!
# Amanda, 1 year, 9 months ago.
You don’t honestly live so far from civilisation that you actually have rabbits bounding through your backyard?
# Chans, 1 year, 9 months ago.
I love animals! Insects and spiders are a different thing but generally I love animals. Without animals we wouldn’t be able to live actually because the natural balance would be disturbed and food chains would be broken..
I can’t see though why M. would chase after the rabbit even after the problem of it being in your back yard was solved; leave the bunny alone :D
# Shaar, 1 year, 9 months ago.
Hahahahahahahahahhahaaha. You’re such a dork. *hugs*
# Anne, 1 year, 9 months ago.
That poor rabbit! I bet it got all confused with being chased down.
# Tracey, 1 year, 9 months ago.
This is the first time I’ve ever had a rabbit come through my backyard. Anyway, Shaarie’s seen my place. It’s not that bad!
You know, I don’t really feel bad for the rabbit, they’re a big pest in Australia, and it freaked the hell out of me!
# Kat, 1 year, 9 months ago.
Rabbits are pests in Australia? Poor things, I’d be ecstatic to find a rabbit in my backyard. The chase would be a lot of fun ^_^
# Nellie, 1 year, 9 months ago.
Living on a farm makes for a lot of bunny encounters. We rarely get them around the house because my dog has an affinity for anything small, fluffy and rodent-like, so they tend to stay away. But you should hear the opossum screams we hear occasionally when Cosby (my dog) has been left outside and has gone for his toilet walk. You’d honestly think someone (as opposed to something) is being murdered.
# Rafia, 1 year, 9 months ago.
Rabbits love hanging out in my backyard. I think they have babies in our sump pump. This one time, I saw this one rabbit (I presumed him to be male) chasing another one (I presumed this one to be female)… and I was like, “Man that rabbit is feeling horny” It was just a funny moment. And I’m a horrible storyteller. I lose.
Rabbits are cute and fluffy! :) But I’m scared of all animals too.
# Malin, 1 year, 9 months ago.
Haha, I would laughed so hard if I saw that happening :P I have a strange sense of humor, I know :P
# Jessica, 1 year, 9 months ago.
Once a rabbit decided to live in our backyard. Unfortunately, it was a stupid rabbit, and it kept trying to make friends with one of our cats. Luckily, the cat it chose was the old one who doesn’t hunt. Unluckily, we have another cat who finished it off in a few weeks. :( Also, rabbits aren’t a huge pest where I live, since I live in the suburbs. And not the outer suburbs, either. The rabbit was probably an escaped pet.
# Jennii, 1 year, 9 months ago.
I recall my friend having a family of rabbits under her deck in the backyard … haha.
Are you afraid of people hearing you play the piano? :O
# Amber, 1 year, 9 months ago.
I’ve tagged you, Chrasy Tracy.
http://avarae.dispiacere.org/2007/02/13/tag-youre-it/
# Sabrina, 1 year, 9 months ago.
You typed “rubbish bin!” Giggle.
# Tracey, 1 year, 9 months ago.
*pokes Amber and points to the ‘e’ in name*
And Sabrina, what do you call them? Trash cans?
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