Danger! Danger, Will Robinson! These seemingly normal rabbits are
the very first sight you'll see when you enter our front
door. Do not be fooled.
Above, Fala gives her "sister" Nuli a little kiss. Fala is a mini-Rex with
cloud-soft fur. Nuli is a Belgian Hare, abandoned at our local Wildlife
Care Center with a broken humerus. She's fine now, thunders around
with such speed and volume (you can hear her coming) that you'd never know
she had a problem.
In the background is Slooby, purebred Space Alien. Instead of regular
cartilage joints, he has joints made of slinkies. We suspect that this is
due to the fact that He is His Own Grampaw. (He was rescued from a huge,
horrid backyard breeding operation that probably started with two
rabbits. Need we say more?)
Of course, being a Space Alien with really, really homogenous DNA does
have its perqs. Slooby is very much in touch with that Other
Dimension. Care to know your future?
Slooby and Wolf are best buddies. As you can see, Slooby's structural
support is somewhat lacking. He also occasionally sleeps with his nose
pointed straight up, 90 degrees skyward (contacting the Mother Ship, no
doubt).
Wolf has been taking slinky lessons from his best pal, Slooby. He's doing
pretty good for a Fat Boy! (Excuse me. *Reubenesque* Boy.)
Is Nuli a babe, or what?
In fact, there are those who pretty much worship at her altar...
A healthy bunny gets lots of leafy greens every day. And these four get
to share two plates like this every evening. Of course, it's more fun
if you eat off the same plate 'til it's gone, and then move to the next
one. Once you've picked all the banana bits out of both plates, of course.
Yeah, we know. We spoil them. Even their beers are microbrews.
(Okay, so it was empty. All she got to do was sniff it. But judging
from the look on her face, that's all it takes when you're a cheap drunk.)
Oh! What luck. How extraordinary! (Say it in your best, most breathless
Sir David Attenborough voice.) Shhhh! Rarely seen and never before photographed,
we present here the Ontogeny of the Space Alien "Rabbit".
To the left are
visible the plain brown pods (craftily designed to resemble common
coconuts) nested on the ground by the Mother Ship.
After a brief incubation, these hatch out as the brown and white larval form
(center), and finally undergo metamorphosis to produce the white,
slinky-jointed Space Alien (far right).
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