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Monday, July 19, 2010

For Ruth, he'll tolerate anything

I walked through the living room the other morning, as I am often wont to do, passing by Oswald's cage. A quick glance at the fuzz bunny out of the corner of my eye, my brain registered something was off. I stopped, quickly looked down at the rabbit, and still couldn't quite register what wasn't right.

Ohhhhh, he has a paper hat on! A PAPER HAT!?  Oswald was laying in his cage, all stretched out and relaxed as if nothing out of the ordinary was going on. "Hey Ruth!" I called out to Ruth who was sitting at the kitchen table having breakfast, "Why is the rabbit wearing a paper hat? Is that a paper hat?"

"Yes," She said. "I made it for him."

"Um, Paper hats on rabbits, not a good idea," I said, lips pressed tight, shaking my head. "Take it off."

"But he looks so cuuuuuute," Ruthie said.  "And look, I even made ear holes in it."