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November 01, 2004
From Ginger to Dinner
I was recently reminded of owning a pet rabbit, the experience for the most part I wish to forget. One easter when we lived with Jeff and Heather Cross I wanted a pet, and so we got a bunny.
If you know the upstairs apartment at the Crosses, you've seen the awesome balcony porch that it has. Well that porch was Ginger's domain. We attached chicken wire around the railing so she wouldn't wiggle her way to her death. She had a blast out there. It was especially nice since we figured out that I was allergic to her.
But then we moved down Alabama near 53rd and no longer had a nice place for her outside, so she became an indoor bunny in a little cage most of the time. Very sad.
We could tell that she missed the old balcony but we kept hoping she would adjust. We went away for Christmas and had a neighbor (Paul Hesselink) check on her. We told him not to worry about holding her, just change the litter and feed her. When we got back she turned on us! No kiddding, she bit Bob's slipper and he still has the hole to prove it. Everytime Bob would change the litter box he'd have to wear his leather gloves so he wouldn't get bitten. She'd bite anyway, but at least it didn't hurt as bad.
As if the biting wasn't enough, when she was out of her cage she would jump super high and spray pee everywhere. I think a friend mentioned that maybe she did this because she wanted to mate. Well after some investigation, we discovered that our cute little girl bunny named Ginger was ACTUALLY a male bunny. That was the last straw for me. I was allergic to her/him, and it bit us whenever we tried to change the litter (did you know bunnies will go in a litter box like cats do?) so we looked to get rid of her/him. (I still, to this day, can't say him)
I'm not sure if you're familiar with a hall at Covenant called Catacombs, but when I was there they were notorious for doing strange things with animals. (catch the greased pig, frozen road kill, etc) I had a friend, Fernando, (names haven't been changed to protect the innoc....guilty) who volunteered where I worked and he said he'd take it. I made he and Jade promise to be nice to Ginger and they did. Well I know they must have gotten really tired of having bunny pee sprayed all over their room and I'm sure they didn't enjoy getting bitten either, so Ginger went the way of many bunnies in the wild. They ate her! I'm totally serious.
Of course I didn't hear this from them. My friend Joe later told me that when they got Ginger they renamed her/him Dinner. I think Joe told me that he acutally ate some of her/him or maybe just witnessed her death. So if you are reading this right now and tasted the likes of my old bunny, leave a comment and confess!
In defense of these guys there really was no other option. Bob and I couldn't leave Ginger/Dinner with an unsuspecting family and let her/him bite little one's fingers and such. Though I guess they really didn't have to eat her!
Well she was fun while she lasted. Here are some very cute pictures of Ginger, before she was Dinner...
Posted by michellew at November 1, 2004 04:35 PM
Comments
Expose the BARBARIANS for who they are!!!!
Posted by: Sember at November 1, 2004 07:02 PM
hmmm, wasnt our great blogmaster a resident of catacombs around this time?
Posted by: bobw at November 1, 2004 07:32 PM
It is true...
If I remember correctly, I was telling you the story and I didn't know that it was your rabbit. Lo Siento.
It was very stringy to eat.
Fernando and I and Mason and Drew shared in this crime. It was an evil rabbit though; even mild-mannered Jade threatened it with evil curses. He didn't eat it though.
Posted by: Joe at November 2, 2004 07:33 AM
That is hilarious! Sad and cruel, but also a little funny. I know that bunnies will go in the litter box, but not with the same consistency cat's do...a few random balls here and there tend to miss. I have a prof who owns about 8-10 rabbits IN HER HOUSE! She loves rabbits and rescues them from restaurants and stuff. She lets them run freely around the house. Cages full of hay are everywhere INSIDE her house. It's like a barn.
Posted by: Jeannette at November 2, 2004 09:08 AM
The more I know about the guys' dorms at Covenant, the more it freaks me out. EEEW.
Posted by: RT at November 2, 2004 01:59 PM
Dinner, HAH! I'm not surprised by anything that happens on Catacombs anymore. Roadkill, toilets as decoration, whatever... It's part of expressing their boyhood when away from mommy and before they are contained my the wife.*whip sounds*
Posted by: katiek at November 2, 2004 03:58 PM
Wow I think that was awful-- and i also think that you knew since the beginning they would end up doing something like that to Ginger or else you wouldnt have given him away to the likes of people in Catachombs. The little animal was just angry at living a life of stagnation and isolation after having run of the porch. I mean would you like to live in a cage all your life? and especially without much interaction with anyone as I imagine since you were allergic to him. Im sure thats why your bunny may have ended up hating you guys & become psycho with anyone... Anyway Im sure there are people out there that could turn around such an animal & neutering him to mellow him out.. Guess that wasnt the option of choice...anyway i know rabbits get eaten all the time and i dont have anything in particular against eating any kind of meat, its just the sadness of how the story develops and he WAS a domestic rabbit after all... poor bunny
Posted by: bunny at March 21, 2006 09:14 PM
YAY!!! KILL THE BUNNIES!!! YAY!!! KILL THE RABBITS!!! THEY'RE ALL EVIL!!! KILL THEM ALL BEFORE THEY TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!! (EVIL BUNNY/RABBIT NAMED RAQUEL STARTS LAUGHING EVILLY! : MUHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!)
Posted by: aaron "DOOFUS" rabbit/bunny KILLER!! at February 16, 2007 11:20 PM
AARON!!! HOW CAN YOU BE SO EVIL!!! I LOVE RABBITS!!! AND I AM SO NOT EVIL! PUH SHA!!! OR AM I?!?!?
Posted by: rachel "RABBIT" raquel at February 16, 2007 11:25 PM