A bunny story

I keep seeing a bunny in the same general area as I drive out of the neighborhood. It reminds me of the bunnies we had a few years ago. It struck me this evening when I saw "him" again that he might be a great, great, great, great, great grand bunny of our original bunnies. You ask how that could be? Well, here is the story. We started off with 2 "female" bunnies

and kept them in a pen in the backyard where they could hop around and enjoy the fresh air, burrow in the hay and poop as much as they wanted. At least, this was what we observed for the first several months.

Soon we discovered that the pet shop really couldn't tell the difference between male and female. We didn't realize what was going on, but thought they were just very clever when they dug out an underground den. It turned out that they had their babies down there and one day we looked in and saw several young bunnies hopping around inside the pen. That is how we found out the pet shop had been wrong. All of a sudden we had 7 or more baby bunnies. They were sooooo cute! And were really pretty colors too.

But then they had more bunnies. And then more. Pretty soon we had a LOT of bunnies. We couldn't give them away fast enough. One of the friends who took some of the bunnies lived in our neighborhood. We helped them build an outdoor pen, and of course, they soon had many more bunnies too. On 4th of July, we took a wagon full of bunnies in the neighborhood parade and came home with none of them. Hehehehe - that was my plan!

Watching the bunnies create their underground den was fascinating. We never really knew how many there were at any time. They must have continued to extend their underground tunnels because one day we noticed that there was a hole outside the pen. Then our bunnies were free. It was really interesting because they would leave their pen in the evening and hop all around the backyard eating fresh grass. Then they would go back to their pen. Anyway, the bunnies at the friend's house did the same thing and also eventually got free.

I realized this evening that the bunny I keep seeing is along the street near the friend's house looks like our original pets. Pretty cool to think he may be a descendent of one of ours.