I just sit there and stare as you hop from shrub to shrub

Not to stall Motor City Furry Con's report longer, but there might be news on the rabbit front soon. This after our first Easter without a rabbit in our house (and bunnyhugger's first bunny-free Easter in a very long while). A rescue out in Grand Rapids has a rabbit, an albino Flemish Giant that they posted as weighing 22 pounds. This is, for comparison, more than our previous two rabbits combined weighed, and it'd be close to more what any pair of rabbits we've ever had weighed. That's getting up near ``Mark Trail thinks this rabbit's large'' territory.

So, turns out the rabbit isn't quite that enormous. Their web site reduced his weight to 20 pounds, and on the phone today we learned he's more like 15 pounds according to the vet. It's not that he's dwindling that fast; they just hadn't had him properly weighed before and took the word of the people surrendering him.

We don't have the rabbit, or a firm date for picking him up. The rescue wants to be confident in the people they place him with, and so today bunnyhugger had a phone interview with his current foster. None too soon, either. Her parents, aware of the possibility of a huge rabbit, were split between her mother fretting she'd ever be able to take care of a 22-pound rabbit when we were out of town, and her father asking every five minutes if the rescue had got back to them yet and suggesting names.

The interview went on for roughly an hour, which is rather a long while. And covered things you might expect, like how many rabbits we've had, what diseases we've dealt with, what we would do in case of a stasis episode. bunnyhugger forgot to mention Sunshine's allergies, which is probably just as well because who would ever believe in a rabbit with hay fever? Such a dear but weird one.

So now we wait while they check our references (?!?) and who knows what else. They also want a photograph of the rabbit's proposed home. We're using this as a chance to rearrange the living room, which has only had one medium-scale rearrangement since bunnyhugger moved in back in the late 90s. (When we replaced the broken CRT television with a flatscreen we moved a bookshelf out of the room and put a long, low record cabinet in there as a resting surface.)

We do hope there'll be a rabbit in our future soon. Maybe this will be the one. Maybe it's some rabbit we don't even know exists yet. We'll see.

Trivia: Though the Council of Nicaea (AD 325) is credited with setting the rules for the calculation of Easter (even Pope Gregory XIII's bull establishing the new calendar in 1582 credits it so) it did not; it only settled that the eastern Church would abandon the practice of celebrating it starting the 14th day of Nisan (anniversary of the Crucifixion) whenever that fell in the week and instead celebrate, as western Churches did, on a Sunday. Source: Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar, Duncan Steel.

Currently Reading: Archie 1000-Page Comics Party, Editor Jamie Lee Rotante.