Cuddling Bunnies Is Exactly What We Need Right Now
It’s a sunny early spring Friday and I’m walking through the mostly empty streets to meet a bunny in an open field. Magnolia blossoms the shade of gosling feathers ready themselves for their debut, and a chilly breeze propels plump, fluffy clouds across liquid blue skies. The hopefulness of the fresh new season somehow adds to the city’s ghostly mood.
A pandemic is nothing if not a steep learning curve, bringing with it all manner of unforeseeable challenges. But among the most, let’s call it, unique obstacles proves to be arranging a meeting with a rabbit during a period of strict social distancing. The behind-the-scenes machinations of the 1977 Frost-Nixon interviews were surely an uncomplicated delight compared to this. As isolation measures intensified, the bunny’s mother, Kate Whyte, and I toyed with the prospect of setting up a FaceTime call with Marshall, a grey and white Holland Lop, but settled on a suitably distanced rendezvous in a field.
So, here we are, sitting by the kind of generously boughed storybook tree where Peter Rabbit’s mother might be lolloping about in her apron, fixing French beans and radishes for her bunny son. Marshall is in his carrier, his nose busily wiggling through the mesh window. “He’s a bit frightened,” Whyte tells me, protectively patting his flopping ears, keeping him close so that he won’t hop away at surprising speed. The last time he left the house, it was to get neutered, so he understandably may not have the happiest associations with the outside world.
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