Yesterday was just bizarre. It started out crazy. We had a runaway bunny! It turns out that during that big snowstorm we had Valentine's week, Tom put more straw in the rabbit's cage and forgot to put the heavy pole over the door(that lock is broken). Sometime the night before or yesterday morning the door was opened. Only Brownie got out. Monkey Fantastic, who was the frisky one when we bought them, stayed in the cage. My Mom took some leftover vegetable parts out to them and noticed a brown rabbit that looked like ours running around and straw showing on the one side of the cage. I ran around outside looking for him and couldn't see him anywhere. At this point I was panicking, thinking that he ran out in the street and was going to get hit by a car. I made Tom get up and snapped at him for taking so long in the bathroom while the rabbit was on the loose! (Need I mention those pregnancy hormones again?) At that point I was sure the rabbit was gone. Tom later said he took one look at my face and knew he had to find the rabbit. He went into work a little late.
He found Brownie hiding in the yard behind ours(it faces sideways and doesn't have a gate on our side). He was hanging out under their fallen backyard tent. The snow had completely crashed their tent, so it made a nice hiding spot. But Brownie was scared and catching him wasn't easy.....that little guy is fast! Tom said he came out from hiding when he heard my voice, so I came over too. He wouldn't let us come near him though. Then when Tom got too close Brownie dashed out to an unfenced yard, two houses down and right next to the street, then raced through two yards and back into ours. As we're trying to trap the desperate rabbit I hear a police car pull up. Sure enough an officer comes down the walkway behind our yard with his gun drawn. Tom leans over the fence and the officer asks if he's seen anyone hanging around here. "Yeah, us!" He responds. The officer says he's looking for a black man who was in the yard behind ours (where the rabbit was hiding). So we proceed to quickly explain that we're looking for our rabbit. Tom had knocked on the backdoor of the house twice because he felt funny walking through their yard but no one answered. He didn't want to go to the front door because the rabbit might move again. Here the woman inside was terrified because her house had been robbed (don't know the details there) and she only heard someone at her door. She said she didn't even look at who it was but the police said she said it was a black man at her door. It took the officer a while to even get her to open the door for him. While he was inside explaining what had happened to her we finally got the rabbit in a corner and Tom finally caught Brownie. Tom showed the officer the rabbit when he came out again, and of course he had to take Tom's name and info. When I told Leanna what had happened her little face crumpled a bit as she asked if it was the rabbit that she had picked out (it was). I reassured her that Brownie was safe in his cage now. Then Tom had to get to work and we had to rush to get her to school. What a way to start your day!!
He found Brownie hiding in the yard behind ours(it faces sideways and doesn't have a gate on our side). He was hanging out under their fallen backyard tent. The snow had completely crashed their tent, so it made a nice hiding spot. But Brownie was scared and catching him wasn't easy.....that little guy is fast! Tom said he came out from hiding when he heard my voice, so I came over too. He wouldn't let us come near him though. Then when Tom got too close Brownie dashed out to an unfenced yard, two houses down and right next to the street, then raced through two yards and back into ours. As we're trying to trap the desperate rabbit I hear a police car pull up. Sure enough an officer comes down the walkway behind our yard with his gun drawn. Tom leans over the fence and the officer asks if he's seen anyone hanging around here. "Yeah, us!" He responds. The officer says he's looking for a black man who was in the yard behind ours (where the rabbit was hiding). So we proceed to quickly explain that we're looking for our rabbit. Tom had knocked on the backdoor of the house twice because he felt funny walking through their yard but no one answered. He didn't want to go to the front door because the rabbit might move again. Here the woman inside was terrified because her house had been robbed (don't know the details there) and she only heard someone at her door. She said she didn't even look at who it was but the police said she said it was a black man at her door. It took the officer a while to even get her to open the door for him. While he was inside explaining what had happened to her we finally got the rabbit in a corner and Tom finally caught Brownie. Tom showed the officer the rabbit when he came out again, and of course he had to take Tom's name and info. When I told Leanna what had happened her little face crumpled a bit as she asked if it was the rabbit that she had picked out (it was). I reassured her that Brownie was safe in his cage now. Then Tom had to get to work and we had to rush to get her to school. What a way to start your day!!
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