Everyday musings on the life of my cute, white rabbit

By Craig McIntosh (China Daily)
Updated: 2009-07-01 15:31

"Can rabbits eat snacks?" asked another netizen. "My classmate's rabbit eats everything, someone fed it candy and chips and now its fur keeps dropping off. My classmate even kissed it. Does it have a disease?"

As though that did not make me shudder enough, that last post sparked the reply: "My rabbit eats porridge and buns with me every morning. He seems to be okay, except for the odd bout of hiccups?"

One desperate schoolboy begged: "How can I get rid of my rabbit's smell? My mother threatened to throw it out of my window. We live on the sixth floor."

Another pondered: "My friend took his rabbit into the shower with him and it died. I got mine wet by accident one time but he didn't die. Who can tell me, do rabbits need a shower? And if so, how do you stop them from dying during?"

And I could not help feeling for the chap who wrote: "My rabbit died, what can I do?" I felt sympathy for his loss and also for the fact that, of the answers he received, more than 50 percent suggested "knocking up a hotpot", shortly followed by "bury it" and "take a specimen of DNA in case you can clone him in the future".

The respondents who wrote "burn it, put the ashes in a bag and hang it around your neck to ward off evil spirits", however, should probably be given a wide berth if you should ever meet them in the street.

Needless to say, my girlfriend and I have decided to rely on our own counsel when it comes to feeding him, and we've already exploited my favorite website Taobao.com for a water bottle and a block of unidentifiable hard stuff for him to keep his teeth short.

I'm hoping the latter arrives before he's gone through all my slippers and telephone wires.

(China Daily 07/01/2009 page20)

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