{"id":722,"date":"2006-04-09T13:23:35","date_gmt":"2006-04-09T18:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=722"},"modified":"2009-04-12T21:29:07","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T01:29:07","slug":"easter-and-rabbits-dont-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2006\/04\/09\/easter-and-rabbits-dont-mix\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter and Rabbits Don&#8217;t Mix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Easter, don&#8217;t fall for the temptation of a cute bunny &#8211; Rabbits require a lot of work and commitment from their owners to be kept happy. Lots of people give up rabbits after a few months (after Easter) &#8211; either giving them to shelters (where, if not adopted, they will be destroyed) or letting them loose in the wild (where they will die). So please, folks, don&#8217;t buy a bunny if you&#8217;re not prepared to take care of a rabbit.<\/p>\n<p>This poem (from the <a title=\"House Rabbit Society\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rabbit.org\">House Rabbit Society<\/a>) sums it up pretty nicely.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Easter Bunny<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>by Mary Brandolino<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In memory of all the bunnies we couldn&#8217;t save.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I remember Easter Sunday<br \/>\nIt was colorful and fun<br \/>\nThe new life that I&#8217;d begun<br \/>\nIn my new cage.<\/p>\n<p>I was just a little thing<br \/>\nWhen they brought me from the store<br \/>\nAnd they put me on the floor<br \/>\nIn my cage.<\/p>\n<p>They would take me out to play<br \/>\nLove and pet me all the time<br \/>\nThen at day&#8217;s end I would climb<br \/>\nIn my cage.<\/p>\n<p>But as days and weeks went by<br \/>\nI saw less of them it seemed<br \/>\nOf their loving touch I dreamed<br \/>\nIn my cage.<\/p>\n<p>In the night outside their house<br \/>\nI felt sad and so neglected<br \/>\nOften scared and unprotected<br \/>\nIn my cage.<\/p>\n<p>In the dry or rainy weather<br \/>\nSometimes hotter sometimes colder<br \/>\nI just sat there growing older<br \/>\nIn my cage.<\/p>\n<p>The cat and dog raced by me<br \/>\nPlaying with each other only<br \/>\nWhile I sat there feeling lonely<br \/>\nIn my cage.<\/p>\n<p>Upon the fresh green grass<br \/>\nChildren skipped and laughed all day<br \/>\nI could only watch them play<br \/>\nFrom my cage.<\/p>\n<p>They used to take me out<br \/>\nAnd let me scamper in the sun<br \/>\nI no longer get to run<br \/>\nIn my cage.<\/p>\n<p>Once a cute and cuddly bunny<br \/>\nLike a little ball of cotton<br \/>\nNow I&#8217;m grown up and forgotten<br \/>\nIn my cage.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what went wrong<br \/>\nAt the home I did inhabit<br \/>\nI just grew to be a rabbit<br \/>\nIn my cage.<\/p>\n<p>But they&#8217;ve brought me to the pound<br \/>\nI was once loved and enjoyed<br \/>\nNow I wait to be destroyed<br \/>\nIn my cage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rabbit.org\/easter\/help.html\">Click here<\/a> to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Easter, don&#8217;t fall for the temptation of a cute bunny &#8211; Rabbits require a lot of work and commitment from their owners to be kept happy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-bE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6124,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2024\/03\/16\/think-twice-or-more-before-getting-a-rabbit-for-easter\/","url_meta":{"origin":722,"position":0},"title":"Think Twice (or More) Before Getting a Rabbit for Easter","author":"Keith Survell","date":"March 16, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Thinking of getting a rabbit for Easter? 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