Stewpid is Back!!!

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

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.

[Pat and Traveler]

Laurie--you'd have been a great feather-plucker and rabbit-skinner.  And there would have been some great blogs, though I guess they would have been called letters back then.  :)

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Pat, I am telling you, I would have been the skinniest woman in America back then :)

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Maybe Stewpid would like it if you planted him a carrot garden just outside of your fence???????  F. would know this, but aren't marigolds supposed to deter animals from your yard? 

[F, Calla & Luca]

I don't think they deter animals but for sure they are supposed to deter some insects.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Nancy, Having him right outside our fence chomping on carrots would drive my dogs insane...LOL!! Can I just send him to your house or F's?

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

We are partial to opossum pie our here! The one downfall of doggy doors is that the 'kills' are brought in........  So send Stewpid to F.

[F, Calla & Luca]

Thanks but I've had my fill.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

I think Stewpid would love your yard :)

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Note to self...do not get a doggy door :) LOL

[Maryann,Roo and Tigger]

We have his cousins, the squirrel twins, they annoy the daylights out of my doods.  They sit on the wire or sometimes even the fence near a tree and if they are not notice quickly enough they start to "call" the doods, usually about midnight.  What sefl respecting squirrel is awake at midnight?  Of course my husband thinks it is rats, what we don't have rats in our yard, so it must be those Stewpid squirrel cousins.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

LOL....we have plenty of those darn squirrels and chipmunks, too.  I think we should probably live in a bubble...LOL!!

[Diana Erhart]

I think several of Stewpid's offspring have made it to Mars, PA.  They love to hang out in the backyard and are not fazed by Charlie's barking.  Now everytime I take Charlie out for a walk he wants to go rabbit hunting in the weeds behind our house.  One thing I will say is that the Son of Stewpid (SOS) does eat the weeds out of our newly planted yard.  Now if I can only get a fence up so I can let Charlie out without his leash (long story, it has been 6 months and still no fence).  I am getting a very sore shoulder from that leash.