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Margaret's caring for about twenty bunnies these days. It's a lot of work for her and requires commitment. She
loves her little bunnies. They bring her joy.
People often ask (sometimes with a smirk) why on earth she would raise rabbits if she doesn't harvest
them for meat or hides.
It's akin to pondering why someone would cultivate a flower bed rather than a vegetable garden.
She has no problem with people who raise rabbits for consumption, but farming is not her cup of tea.
She keep her bunnies in the bunny shed for the same reason that other people keep tropical birds
in a cage or keep carp in a Koi pond (I doubt that many pluck the feathers from their parakeets or eat their
carp, but I suppose a few might!).
On sunny days She puts the bunnies outside on the lawn. She loves to observe the interaction of movement
and form. She loves noticing the differences between individual bunnies. She loves learning about them
and talking about them and just watching them. If you need an explanation for that, just think of it as a Zen kind
of thing. The Zen of Bunnies.
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| Norma Jeanne - Standard Chinchilla May 2003 |
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| A very fiesty girl, just like her mother (Zerus). |
Holding a Miracle in Your Hands!
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This is what it's all about.
If you choose to love small and fragile creatures, you open your
heart to pain along with joy. Holding a baby bunny in your hands helps you to understand that miracles large and
small are constantly going on all around you.
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Favorites
One of the best books ever is about rabbits:
Watership Down by Richard Adams - a sort of lapine "Lord of
the Rings" (also a great animated movie by Nepenthe Production)
We all need our own place of peace. A small little part of the universe that's orderly and consistent. A flower
bed, a trail through the woods, a garden pond, or a bunny shed can provide a bit of Eden for just long enough each day
to give us a needed respite from the chaotic and uncertain world outside.
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