Run, rabbits, run
Sunday, May 31, 2009 
Woke up this morning to find that my daughter's two pet rabbits had escaped from their hutch overnight. There was a large, tell-tale hole where they had burrowed out from their run. What made it worse was that my daughter is currently in France on a school exchange trip so I'm in charge of her pets!!
We searched high and low but it was obvious they weren't in the garden. The question was: how long had they been on the run and how far had they gone? I resigned myself to the fact that they were lost, possibly forever, when our neighbours knocked on the door and said: "There's a grey rabbit in our garden. Is it yours?"
We rushed round and there, bold as brass, was Ringo sitting under a deckchair. It took ten minutes to catch him but catch him we did. There was no sign, though, of Sadie, which was unusual because they are normally inseparable.
Well, we took Ringo home and within minutes the neighbours were calling to say that a black rabbit was now lolloping around their garden. So back we went and after a short struggle she too was caught and taken home.
All this happened around nine o'clock this morning. Goodness knows what our other neighbours thought as we ran back and forth. Life in our quiet little close doesn't get more exciting than this!
Reader Comments (1)
I think it is the second time Ringo and Sadie have made a bid for freedom. Enterprising, resourceful, won't take no for an answer are they a metaphor for smokers?