EYE CANDY FOR KIDS OF ANY AGE ….

 

1. It’s my understanding from some folks who have attended to these cute critters, THEY ARE LOUSY PETS!

   Obviously they never had one has a pet. We’d keep one or two as pets while I was growing up, but mostly we raised them for dinner...our dinner

   But we never ate the pets. They were family.

   Posted by Christopher       12/23/2008  at  03:55 PM  



2. You’re right. They didn’t have em as pets.
   What happened was they were asked to care for them while the owners were away for two weeks.  So the folks (neighbors here) thought, how hard could it be.
   For them I guess a major hassle and they said cute sure but also on the mean side and not really pet tame.  Not a grey wild one btw.  The owners got em from a pet store I believe.

   We have loads of wild rabbits here. They dig the heck out of back lawn. Cute but bothersome.
   Eat all the flowers wife tries to plant.  And the pheasants (with all the other wildlife, crap all over the back yard. Can’t walk anywhere without truly massive amounts of the stuff on shoes.

   Were yours like lap cats?  I mean, as a kid were you able to handle em without being bitten?
   Silly questions to you Chris but I grew up in the city.  Closest I came to a wabbit was Bugs in a Warner cartoon.

   Posted by peiper       12/23/2008  at  06:02 PM  



3. Well, Wiggles was a lap rabbit.

   He’d hop around the room, intimidating the cats, whom he outweighed by five pounds or more. Paco, our parakeet, was his best friend. Paco’s first action when let out of his cage was to swoop down and ride on Wiggles’ back. This had an almost fatal result for Paco because once we let him out and Wiggles wasn’t out. So Paco swooped down on the next available back, which belonged to Mouse, a black-and-white cat that could be mistaken for Wiggles. Mouse couldn’t believe his good fortune and promptly chomped on Paco.

   Fortunately, I was there and cuffed Mouse upside the head and he spat Paco out. Paco immediately flew up and perched on the TV, cussing. Paco usually lived in Mom and Dad’s bedroom. He had learned some words that I still don’t know! Even the words I do know are embarrassing. I didn’t know my parents would engage in such behavior in front of an underage parakeet!

   We never raised ‘wild’ rabbits. They were always ‘tame’ rabbits bred for meat. It’s just that me, or one of my sisters, would ‘take a shine’ to a specific rabbit. We never got bit by a rabbit.

   I would occasionally shoot a wild rabbit that was vandalizing the garden. There was some tough meat.

   Posted by Christopher       12/23/2008  at  06:38 PM  

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