Truth or Rumor Meme

[trystinn]

This is the Truth or Rumor Meme! Ask your friends to post in your journal something they have heard about you, and you have to respond with whether it is the Truth or a Rumor.
Remember inquiring minds want to know!

Comments

[wild-heart.livejournal.com]

Someone on one of the lists I'm on has a new sig line.

If you raise your rabbit indoors, does that make it an ingrown hare?

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

LMAO!

FYI: The lagamorph communities are as caste-based as the pagan community, probably more so come to think about it. House rabbits are at the top, followed by yard rabbits (what I have), then it usually bottoms out with the double whammy of ultimate misery in "hutch/tiny wire cage rabbits".

The only thing possibly lower than a hutch/wire cage rabbit is the breeder/show rabbit, which absolutely no one admits to having with the possible exception of allowing one's child to enter a 4H or FFA event. Shockers!

[wild-heart.livejournal.com]

Funny you should say that about show rabbits. Maybe it's different in KY, but on that same list (Freecycle Chat) there's a guy who has a couple of dozen buns that he shows. He just showed them at the KY State Fair a couple of weeks ago. Everyone on the list loves to hear about the does and babies, and the trials and tribulations of Larry, aka Bunnyman.

Could be geography

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Much of the Lagamorph lists are international folks, UK & Japan, and a lot of urban apartment dwellers, etc. which may be where a lot of the difference in attitude comes from. I've actually gotten a fairly decent amount of flak for keeping my buns outside most of the year, which I would much prefer over the basement "condos" folks build for their rabbits.

Frankly, folks here on rural Whidbey Island think I'm nuts to have pet rabbits. They always ask when I'm serving them for dinner.

Re: Could be geography

[wild-heart.livejournal.com]

When I lived in NJ, the guy across the street from me raised buns for the meat.

Larry has a barn set-up, with pens and heaters and all manner of fine accommodations. Then again, I suppose he paid dearly for some of his critters. He worries about them like he's their mama. *vbg*

One of my Freecycle drop-offs was to a family that lived in a tiny apartment. They had a lop ear that had to weigh 25lbs, and it wasn't chubby. The thing creeped me out a little. It took over the living room.

Re: Could be geography

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

They do that! Lops have a tendency toward weight gain, Gods knows my Amber is a chubmonster. She rests her chin on her "chins", if you get my drift.

You should see some of the Giants popular in the UK communities - 30 pounds and up. Folks look they are holding a small border collie, IMHO. My five eat just about all day long, so I do wonder how they manage to pay for the feed for those Giants.

Anna wants one. /whimper

Prepping some new pics for tomorrow's post.