Now THIS is an Easter Bunny!
This was submitted by Cindy in Schaumburg…
Now, before you start telling me this is a product of photo manipulation, I checked it on snopes and it is, in fact, a breed of rabbit called a German Giant (how appropriate!). “Herman” weighs 22 pounds and stands a little over 3 feet on his hind legs! And look at those feet!
German breeder Hans Wagner, struggling to hold him for a New York Post article, says, “We don’t feed him an unusual diet. He goes through more than his brothers and sisters, but he eats the same food mix. His favorite food is actually lettuce. He can never get enough of it.”
And you thought the Easter Bunny was folklore!
Doug
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OMG! Is that for real? He is HUGE!!! And they have others? I am interested to know what they are bred for. Food? Surely not for pets like the little furry things we all know and love.
When I saw this, all I could say was WOW!! Giant is the proper name for sure!! I can't imagine what I would think seeing one of these in real life. I wonder as well what they are bred for. I can only imagine meat. What does giant rabbit taste like?
Tastes like giant chicken.
Can you imagine what would happen if a couple of these things got smuggled into the U.S., perhaps as babies, and sold in pet stores for Easter pets?
As they grew, they would be discarded, maybe ending up in New York sewers where they would sustain themselves on sewer rats and pollutants and continue growing. And multiplying. Until there were no more rats. And they were forced to leave the sewers, millions of them, devouring everything in their paths...
I feel a sci-fi horror book coming on, then the movie. I'll call it
"Ben""Harvey""Herman"...Doug
You have to wonder how the giant rabbits are affecting the German lettuce crop and how the German's are filling the lettuce picking jobs that "Germans won't do". I have a suggestion.....
Good one! We could solve BOTH our problems!
Can you house train them? They would make cool pets if you can. If not, then rabbit stew for twenty I guess. But they are so cute!
Sounds like a good recipe.
"In a large pot, combine vegetables and spices with 60 gallons of water. Bring to a rolling boil. Add 1 giant rabbit, skinned. (Use skin to make fur coat for child.) Lower heat and simmer for 3 days...."
Write the book, Doug! I predict a smash hit, especially at the box office!
"Their diet of rats and radioactive contaminants in the sewers causes them to become giant (I'm thinking they never stop growing) insane carnivore zombies that seek human flesh. They eat everyone and everything in their paths and can't be stopped by the military (who try unsuccessfully to develop them into a secret weapon) but are eventually forced to eat each other when all but two humans (I'm thinking me and Angelina Jolie) have been devoured.
Angelina and I have to repopulate the world since there are no more children to adopt.
The end."
I am picturing him in my son's size 5 tennies. And his Lakers t-shirt. It is a cute picture.
I'm picturing an advertising franchise and dollar signs!!
Great! My daughter wants one! Thanks!
Oh, he is so cute, I want one too!!
That is one big bunny!! Herr Hare!!
As some would say, this begs the question, "why?" But that would be incorrect (thank you very much). Still, why? Aren't regular size rabbits big enough?