A more cooperative rabbit

[mondhasen]

The Huntress began her frenzied "rabbit rabbit rabbit!" barking and sure enough I saw one of my friends out front. It was the one with stripe-like markings, and with the bridge camera photos I see that some face fur may be missing as well. Regardless, the bunny was most cooperative and let me photograph it from the front steps while it nibbled in

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[lepaggoth]

Wow, nice pictures!

It seems she is in the process of molting and the new hair growing underneath seems darker, as it's shorter yet. (Sablepoint and siamese domestic rabbits look funniest when they start molting their baby fur into adult fur, because their faces get darker and it looks exactly like they'd grow a thick pair of eyebrows that grows bigger every day until the molting is over.)

I saw today a squirrel whose molting was in such phase she seemed to have a red shirt and grey trousers, as there was still some old winter fur left only in the hind legs :)

[mondhasen]

The pics were from my better camera, thanks :o) My shaky arms still cause telephoto shots to blur a bit, but overall I love the results this gives.

I didn't realize rabbits molted! She does indeed have the appearance of having heavy eyebrows or striations, too. We had a coyote here one year that I thought was diseased, but on looking online I saw that it, too, was molting: it looked like Lupin in HP.

[mondhasen]

...oh! And here's the photo from my Twitter media, taken in 2013 :o)

[lepaggoth]

Wow. Foxes can be sneaky and look like something else at the first glance. (I guess coyotes can be too, though). I remember once when I was going to work early and was having breakfast and suddenly saw some reddish-brown creature standing at our neighbor's porch. I thought first that our neighbor has gotten a new puppy (since they used to have a dog earlier) and had just let the puppy outside for pee or something, until the "puppy" turned out to be a grown-up fox and neighbor nowhere to be seen.

[lepaggoth]

I guess you have seen this?
https://www.thedodo.com/wild-rabbit-loves-house-bunny-1538761674.html

[mondhasen]

No, I hadn't! That's adorable :o)

[porsupah]

Oh, that's quite something! I've only really known lapinity from the wild perspective, so seeing this kind of wild/house interaction was all new to me, though certainly, the wild bucks are nothing if not persistent, just as much as the does tend to get quite cheesed off with the same, having to constantly move away from the unwanted attention, let alone the spraying, always cue for emergency grooming.

[lepaggoth]

Unneutered domestic rabbits can be awful sprayers as well - also the females.