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About a year ago, we had a rabbit named Stewpid coming into our yard on a daily basis and reeking havoc on my life.
http://www.doodlekisses.com/forum/topics/fudge-and-the-rabbit
Stewpid was causing me sleepless nights because my dogs sensed he was out there and they wanted to meet him personally. I said some pretty mean things about Stewpid and even plotted his demise at one point. He wasn’t the first rabbit that had come into our yard, but he was the most persistent. One of his friends wasn’t so lucky one day when he met Fudge and let’s just say he left the yard via a shovel. Even that, didn’t scare off little Stewpid or cause him to get so mad that he said to himself, “I am starting to sense that rabbits are not welcome here,” because he just kept coming back.
Then one day, as suddenly as he appeared, Stewpid was gone and I assumed he met Mrs. Stewpid and left to travel the world. From time to time, other DK members swore they saw him in their yard and over time and with more sleep, I began to hope he was happy living somewhere else. Well, guess what? The little guy is back and by himself, which means Mrs. Stewpid probably dumped him when he said he wanted to go back to boring PA. I am sure she is probably whooping it up somewhere like Vegas with one of those handsome, magician’s rabbits, who spends his nights under the bright lights getting pulled out of a hat. Fame and fortune is hard to resist even for a rabbit.
I know it is Stewpid by the way he sits in the yard in full view of our windows and turns his head from side to side when he hears the violent barking of two Doodles coming from inside the house. He twitches his little nose and his ears perk up, but he never moves. He is probably thinking, “There is that weird sound again.” Yesterday, Fudge actually moved my furniture when she airlifted off the sofa to get a better look at Stewpid. I hate to say it, but if it comes down to Stewpid or my sofa, it’s been nice knowing you, Stewpid. If this keeps up much longer, I am anticipating needing a new foyer window as two large Doodles break it in an attempt to welcome Stewpid back to the neighborhood.
I really want to settle this amicably, but when you are working with a dimwitted rabbit it makes the going hard. So, today, I am posting an eviction notice in our yard and I hope Stewpid can read or else I am going to have to resort to drawing a rabbit with a large red line going through his body and pray Stewpid makes the correlation.
My only other option is to draw a tombstone with "R.I.P. Stewpid" on it, but I am really hoping it doesn’t come down to that. Stewpid, take a chance. Surely, there is another rabbit out there for you and we have a beautiful state park nearby where I am sure you could live happily ever after.
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Good point Karen.
LOL Karen! I couldn't bring myself to watch that video!
And I thought I was kidding!!! That is a hilarious how-to video... LOL
I think that rabbit was a genius :) Clearly not from Stewpid's family!!
My dh has had two rabbit pets (before she switched back to dogs) and both ate their way through her apartments. They did use a litter box - mostly. In their defense, I must say that they were affectionate.
I know someone with a pet rabbit named Mousse, and he responds to his name, comes when called, and knows that he'll get in trouble if he tries to nibble on the sofa. They aren't as dumb as they seem. But they aren't as smart as doodles either.
I still say, if 100 people were asked to complete the phrase Dumb _____ , "bunny" would be the number one answer.
Karen, this is from the VerlannaHill Rabbitry web site (and the rabbits strike back!!!):
Never make the mistake of underestimating your rabbit’s intelligence. To do so is to miss an important aspect of knowing and enjoying your bunny. No animal has survived over millions of years of evolution by being stupid. Animals alive today that we arrogant humans call stupid are simply animals we have not taken time to understand and appreciate. The greatest mistake we as humans make about animal behavior is attempting to evaluate their behavior by measuring it against our own perception of acceptable stimulus response systems. We assume that our superior intellect requires that our standard of correctness be the only one and therefore anything else must be inferior. That is a rather arrogant appraisal by a creature that has spent less time on this earth than any of the hundreds of other animals we call inferior. After all we are the only creature bent on collectively destroying the very planet we depend on for survival. It kind of makes you wonder where the finger of inferiority should really be pointing.
Hey, I never said stupidity equals inferiority. After all, ignorance is bliss!
I would never underestimate a rabbit's intelligence, mostly because I don't think that's possible.
As to how these brilliant creatures have managed to survive for millions of years, this lady needs to Google "rabbit rate of reproduction". She will first be struck by how many of the articils use the word "scary" in their titles. Here's just one example:
http://www.bio.miami.edu/hare/scary.html
Fascinating reading if you have some time, but let me highlight the key points for you:
"Most of us are familiar with the estimate that one cat and her offspring have
the potential to bear more than 40,000 cats in seven years. But this impressive
number pales in comparison to what a rabbit can produce! Here are those
numbers, for sharing and scaring.
Rabbit gestation lasts 28-31 days, and because they are induced ovulators,
mother rabbits can be impregnated again within minutes of giving birth. This
means that mama could, hypothetically, have one litter per month if she is
constantly with a male rabbit.
One mother rabbit x 3 female babies x 12 months = 36 female babies (plus your original mama makes 37) Let's add the new babies to the reproductive population at the beginning of the following year. At that point, their average age would be six months--the time of their first litter. (This works if you consider this to be averagingthe new females' reproductive output.) If--starting at the beginning of Year Two --each of the Year One female rabbits produces an average of 3 female offspring per month, then by the
That's nearly 95 billion rabbits in seven years! You can see why people use the
phrase "reproducing like rabbits."
I rest my case.
OMR!!!!!!!!
"I would never underestimate a rabbit's intelligence, mostly because I don't think that's possible." ROTFL!!!
I think you gottum, Karen!!!!
Not only is that mama rabbit dumb, it seems she might be a bit easy, too :) This settles it....if I get a female rabbit, I am naming her Irina Slutskaya. LOL
ROFL
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