Don’t Take Your Bunny to Town
18 August 2008 - 18 אב 5768 by Huw
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ATE & I journeyed to the Erie County Fair on Sunday afternoon. It was quite entertaining. We went to the 4H pavilions, which was a first for me: Mom and Dad never took us to this world when I was growing up. I can see why: it would have either been very boring, or else traumatic.
As it was for the Animals.
Nate snapped this cute bunny - eye liner and all - with his cell phone (no flash). But up and down the aisles there were other folks without so much concern: bunnies don’t do well with crowds. Hands poking at them, strangers walking by. One was dead in his cage; one was twitching so hard that it was scary; one most were stuck at the back of the cage, frozen. One mother had birthed four kits: the card proudly reading “4 2 Kits born 11 August”.
Clearly, 4H and County Fairs care less about the animals involved than about displaying to the public the ribbons they get.
I took the card of one of the breeders, however. I figured if I waited three months (after fair season) that would give time for all the digestive systems to clear out of the rabbits. The ones that had gotten sick would be finished being sick and, maybe, they would have had time to breed a generation that wasn’t exposed to this.
