I Admit It. I’m a Sucker For Baby Animals
Posted: Thursday, June 05, 2008
by Mike Fak
http://mikefak.com
Well this is a story about Fak's garden, number two. I call it number two since number one helped a momma rabbit and three baby rabbits get through the cold spring nights with a full belly. Out of roughly fifty tomato, cantaloupe and bean plants originally started I ended up with two that seemed to be too big for the rabbits to dig up and eat. Or maybe they just were bloated and couldn't eat another thing.
Now this added expense has been produced because I am a big weenie. Let me explain. Last week, I started to pick up a pile of branches from trees and bushes I had cut in early March. As I started to do so I came upon the den of the little rabbits and watched as they scampered out of the thicket and headed down the alley. Now at this moment in time was my chance to destroy the rabbit's little home and rid myself of the little plant eating buggers but I just couldn't do it. I thought about them being out in the open and eventually being eaten by something bigger. And so I laid the branches back down over the shallow burrow and walked into the house fully accepting I have become one of those hippie peaceniks I hated in the 1960s.
I guess in a way the fencing was probably necessary anyway. Even if this brood of furry root eaters had in fact been eaten by the other wildlife that has no business in a busy town center, there are rabbits all over the place who would have taken their place. Especially since my garden had received four-star ratings in the Lepus Daily Bugle.
I'm having one of those goofy notions that I use to placate my weaknesses. I like to think that not evicting my illegal tenants might do me some good some day. I'm picturing standing before the Supreme Boss one day and seeing a little rabbit on his shoulders. I imagine the rabbit whispering in the good Lord's ear that I was one of the good guys and to give me a pass on a few of my slips over the years.
Ah, with my luck when I get to Judgment Day there probably will be a sign saying "Today's Menu Special; Rabbit".
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)hi mike, yes, those rabbits are pesky little things. i would like to have my tomatoes and cucumbers and lettuce in a salad, not in the belly of cute little furry animals. you did a good thing! best regards, sueThanks Sue. I have always said that if packages of meat came with a picture of the animal that they came from I would be a vegetarian. Mike
Okay, Mike. I read this and laughed. I wasn't going to comment but since reading it last evening, I have had these periodic visuals of you cooing to a bunny and trying to avoid rabbit-a-la-king in heaven. Take special care!Thanks Avis. I'm a sucker for all baby animals even baby hippos whcih are mud ugly at any age. Mike
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