bunny love

[t walgamuth]

Over the weekend we had an incident.

My youngest daughter has a pet rabbit (female), Humphery. My rabbit is male, P J.s. My daughter is home from college for the summer and has parked her bunny cage next to my bunny's cage and they are pretty friendly but we are keeping them separately as a birth control measure.

So over the weekend all the kids and grand kids are sitting around on the deck. My pjs is sitting off to one side, out of his cage, on the deck sort of hanging out. My daughter comes out and lets her rabbit out to roam around the deck.

Suddenly PJ scrambles out and mounts Humphery and before I could stop laughing he had nailed Humphery twice more!

Dang those rabbits are quick! when they say quick like a bunny they aren't just talking about running speed!

My daughter is kindof groaning...Oh no! (she doesn't want baby bunnies).

Every time I think about it I can't stop chuckling.

Tom W

[Mistress]

I take it the bunnies are Roman Catholic. Hey on a serious note can you get the man bunny a vasectomy? Tom I'm sure you can adopt the bunnies out on the Forum so not to worry.

[Carleton Hughes]

Originally Posted by Mistress

I take it the bunnies are Roman Catholic. Hey on a serious note can you get the man bunny a vasectomy? Tom I'm sure you can adopt the bunnies out on the Forum so not to worry.

When they get married we'll get'em a 14 carrot ring.

[mgburg]

Just curious...

What, exactly, does "bunny love" sound like?

Like those little "squeeky-toy" sounds?

Or the purring of a happy cat?

Just curious....

[Medmech]

Originally Posted by Carleton Hughes

When they get married we'll get'em a 14 carrot ring.

Ha!

[KarTek]

PJ's cage needs one of these:

[Mistress]

Originally Posted by Carleton Hughes

When they get married we'll get'em a 14 carrot ring.

A Pellet Wedding...

[Carleton Hughes]

Originally Posted by Mistress

A Pellet Wedding...

Will the bride get a hare cut?

[Mistress]

The wedding promises to be a Hare raising event...Once upon a time down Walgamuth Way there lived two bunnies, Miss Humphrey and Master PJ. Now master PJ did fancy Miss Humphrey something fierce but due to religious convictions and biology it was best to keep them apart. PJ would fantasize all day long his cage that one day he would get out and profess his undying love for Miss Humphrey and show her he was the one. Miss Humphrey would occassionaly look PJ's way but she knew her family would not permit any sort of union and too keep from thinking about it she spent her days shopping on E-Bay. Then one day it happened.....Mr. Tom let PJ out of his cage on one side of the deck and lo and behold he spotted Mis Humpy on the other side of the deck. Good god its a miracle, Pj didn't know what to do first.... pellet or go blind! At mach 4 he scurried across the deck and poperly introduced himself to Miss Humphrey gave her a proper kiss and then had his way with her not once but twice before the human they called Tom could stop laughing long enough to try and pry them apart. That night as Pj lay in his cage, smoking his Partegas cigar, lounging in his Eames chair with a glass of scotch on the side, he knew life was good.

[E150GT]

Originally Posted by mgburg

Just curious...

What, exactly, does "bunny love" sound like?

Like those little "squeeky-toy" sounds?

Or the purring of a happy cat?

Just curious....

Nothing> They have cotton balls!! Seriously, when we had rabbits they ate their babies.

[MTI]

Where was Mr. McGregor and his wife?

[Benzadmiral]

"All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and when they catch you they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks, and your people shall never be destroyed."

-- The theme of Watership Down, by Richard Adams. If you haven't read it, it's a high adventure, almost a "Mission: Impossible" story, about a group of rabbits and their deadly battle against a Stalin-like rabbit named General Woundwort.

And it's not just a kid's book. I read it at age 27, and it blew me away. If I had rabbits, I'd name 'em after the ones in this book.
.

[Mistress]

Originally Posted by Benzadmiral

"All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and when they catch you they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks, and your people shall never be destroyed."

-- The theme of Watership Down, by Richard Adams. If you haven't read it, it's a high adventure, almost a "Mission: Impossible" story, about a group of rabbits and their deadly battle against a Stalin-like rabbit named General Woundwort.

And it's not just a kid's book. I read it at age 27, and it blew me away. If I had rabbits, I'd name 'em after the ones in this book.
.

Well when Miss Humphrey has her litter I am sure TW will accomodate you!

[Botnst]

First, catch your squirrel...

Last Updated: 12:01am BST 28/05/2008

Kate Colquhoun goes nuts for the latest culinary trend

This summer, there's only one dish to serve at dinner parties: squirrel.

A grey squirrels
Culinary delight: grey squirrel is becoming a vastly popular dish

Low in fat, the grey "tree rats" are seasonally available (between winter hibernations), sustainable (there are an estimated two million running around Britain) and easy on food miles, so they tick all the right green boxes. They're also a patriotic meat to have on your plate - eat a grey squirrel and you're improving the odds of the vastly outnumbered native reds.

I wanted to try squirrel for myself - but bringing Tufty to the table can be a time-consuming mission. The meat is selling faster than butchers can get it, not least because it is currently nesting season. Ever since Kingsley Village Butchers in Fraddon, Cornwall, began offering grey squirrel two months ago, it has shifted up to a dozen a day.

Normally, we Brits are almost uniquely squeamish about unfamiliar meat. Even during the food shortages of the Second World War, Ministry of Food recipes for squirrel soup and rook pie were broadly ignored, and horse meat only intermittently filtered on to the black market.

Mrs Tiggywinkle is safe for a while longer, if for no other reason than that coating a hedgehog in clay and burying it in the embers of an open fire is not the most convenient of urban culinary techniques.
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Surely squirrels would be easy in comparison? My calls to some of the finest game butchers in London were countered by a sharp intake of breath (Mayfair), laddish mirth (Chiswick) and a promise to call me back from Holland Park (they didn't). The redoubtable Oxford butcher Fellers offered to send out a huntsman especially, but that seemed rather excessive - and my budget certainly wasn't up to it.

I began to salivate at the sight of a happy couple of squirrels cavorting in my tiny inner-city garden, and was transfixed by squirrel traps on the web. Never had the old cookery book directive "First, catch your hare" carried quite such force. Leaping to the rescue came Kingsley Village Butchers, the butchers who had started the trend.

After just a couple of calls, they dispatched three West Country squirrels, packed in ice and sent by special courier to the capital - instantly transforming them into the most expensive rodents in Britain.

As for recipes, the internet is stuffed with instructions: braised squirrel with watercress, squirrel pasty, fricassée, tandoori… One particularly recherché suggestion was for nettle ravioli with squirrel and wild mushroom filling.

My 1961 copy of the Thirties American classic The Joy of Cooking suggested stuffing and roasting them - recipes that hung optimistically between those for opossum and bear.

There were also diagrams for skinning squirrel - one foot braced down on the tail while the fur is peeled away with both hands, rather like pulling the water-logged wellies off a toddler. This gave me pause; even dedicated foodie as I am, I began to falter. So I enlisted the assistance of Simon Cherry - all-round good game cook and owner of the Carpenter's Arms in west London, which has just been named best gastropub in the new Good Food Guide for London.

Despite spotting an intriguing recipe for Peking duck-style squirrel pancakes, we decided to try out a more straightforward squirrel and bacon casserole, courtesy of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's A Cook on the Wild Side. I also saved a few slivers for Thomasina Myers's recipe for squirrel popcorn.

Squirrel flesh is mostly on the back legs, and the saddle is so lean as to be almost fleshless, so you'll need a fair few to feed a family. At £3 to £4 for one, the shop-bought variety is hardly an obvious answer to keeping the lid on an escalating grocery bill.

But it's easy to joint, and Hugh's casserole, with onion, garlic, parsley, stock and white wine, seemed to possess an appropriate rural simplicity. Once done, it was sweet, aromatic, hardly "gamey" in the slightest, and the meat was pleasingly un-rubbery.

As for squirrel popcorn - slivers of meat dipped in soy, then arrowroot, fried in vegetable oil and lightly scattered with crushed fennel seed, allspice, salt and fresh sage - let's just say the results did not look good. But they proved unexpectedly delicious: softly puffed, lightly crunchy, tender and aromatic.

If it weren't so fiddly to get so little flesh off the carcass, it could rival any drinks party nibble.

• 'Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking' by Kate Colquhoun (Bloomsbury) is available for £18 + £1.25 p&p. To order, call Telegraph Books on 0870 428 4112 or visit books.telegraph.co.uk

[aklim]

Originally Posted by E150GT

Nothing> They have cotton balls!! Seriously, when we had rabbits they ate their babies.

Rabbit. It's what's for dinner.