Just a gratuitous thread to show off Tommy Knuckles my, then, 7 year old niece's angora rabbit. She named him herself without any kind of prompting!
He GLOWED the most brilliant white imaginable. And, he was FOREVER burrowing out of his decidedly Heath Robinson enclosure to hop around the neighbouring fields. All the kids would be sent out with butterfly/seaside fishing nets to hunt for him and scoop him up on a twice/thrice weekly basis. He lived like this for over 2 years without being eaten by a fox, cat, dog, panther (they live in Cornwall where legend holds that large black beasts roam the wild and windswept moors), run over on the road, squished by a shortsighted cow, taken by a bird of prey, etc etc etc. He was a teenyweeny mini wee thing too. They put his death-defying longevity down to his 'ard as nails name!
And yes, he was as sumptuously soft as he looks.
He GLOWED the most brilliant white imaginable. And, he was FOREVER burrowing out of his decidedly Heath Robinson enclosure to hop around the neighbouring fields. All the kids would be sent out with butterfly/seaside fishing nets to hunt for him and scoop him up on a twice/thrice weekly basis. He lived like this for over 2 years without being eaten by a fox, cat, dog, panther (they live in Cornwall where legend holds that large black beasts roam the wild and windswept moors), run over on the road, squished by a shortsighted cow, taken by a bird of prey, etc etc etc. He was a teenyweeny mini wee thing too. They put his death-defying longevity down to his 'ard as nails name!
And yes, he was as sumptuously soft as he looks.
). It's amazing he avoided predators for so long! Rabbits are tougher and meaner than people think. Even the cute ones. Maybe especially the cute ones 
