New Digs

Some of you will be relieved to know that Stu the rabbit has gone to a better place — by which I mean a new home with a kid from the local school. Really, whatever did you think I meant?

Not actually Stu — pun intended (photo credit: alexhydephotography.com)

Stu spent a few days here, eating prodigious amounts of silver beet, rocket and dandelion, and housed in a nice snuggly hutch in the chicken run. When my friend Amy-from-next-door came over to brush the ponies I introduced her to the bunny. She immediately pointed out that Stu is actually a girl rabbit (nine year olds who’ve grown up on farms know these things).

Amy would have liked to take Stu home herself, but she already has two pet bunnies and she couldn’t persuade her mum to accept another one. Instead she pitched a wild rabbit adoption spiel to her classmates at the nearby rural school. This may or may not have been shored up by the cute photo from last Monday’s post. She must have been pretty convincing because one of those farming families took the bait, and Stu left yesterday afternoon to start a new life in a far-flung Northland hamlet.

Goodbye Stu (or perhaps we should call you Su), we hope you’ll have a warm hutch and plentiful greens.

Amy, I’m pretty sure, has a bright future ahead of her selling sand at a beach!