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May. 9th, 2023 09:24 pmLast night I was out feeding the ferals, and when I went to get something out of my car, I saw a gray and white cat under a bush - deep in shadow, but the movement was clearly “ear cleaning”. I hadn’t seen a grey and white feral around here, but the latest is a silvery tabby, so I thought maybe it was just the shadow.
“Oscar? Kitty kitty kit...”
That’s a rabbit and That’s a domestic rabbit shouldered into my brain at the same instant. A remarkably unconcerned gray and white domestic rabbit about twelve feet away, having a nice wash on a balmy spring night.
Before I could even start to consider what, if anything, I was going to do about the situation, a young girl with her arms full of brown bunny ran up. “Have you seen a rabbit around here?”
I pointed at the bush. “Right there.”
She made a dash at it, and it lolloped off casually, not in fear but in nope, not ready to be caught mode. The kid immediately started shouting in Spanish to someone across the lawn. I thought about offering to try to catch it for her (there’s no way she could carry two) and then decided, given the baffled and excited cats that had escorted me to my car, it would be best to remove myself from the situation. The rabbit was at least as big as either of them, but there was no point in asking for trouble.
It wasn’t as exciting as running the cash register at work and basically being handed an iguana, but it was still...unusual.
If I see the kid again, though, I’m going to suggest a harness and leash.
“Oscar? Kitty kitty kit...”
That’s a rabbit and That’s a domestic rabbit shouldered into my brain at the same instant. A remarkably unconcerned gray and white domestic rabbit about twelve feet away, having a nice wash on a balmy spring night.
Before I could even start to consider what, if anything, I was going to do about the situation, a young girl with her arms full of brown bunny ran up. “Have you seen a rabbit around here?”
I pointed at the bush. “Right there.”
She made a dash at it, and it lolloped off casually, not in fear but in nope, not ready to be caught mode. The kid immediately started shouting in Spanish to someone across the lawn. I thought about offering to try to catch it for her (there’s no way she could carry two) and then decided, given the baffled and excited cats that had escorted me to my car, it would be best to remove myself from the situation. The rabbit was at least as big as either of them, but there was no point in asking for trouble.
It wasn’t as exciting as running the cash register at work and basically being handed an iguana, but it was still...unusual.
If I see the kid again, though, I’m going to suggest a harness and leash.