Rabbit by Christina Ballance

Last night, I was “attacked” by the wild bunny rabbit living on the grounds here at the apartment complex.

Attacked seems like such a strong word and incongruous visual in connection with a cute adorable wild rabbit doesn’t it? Are you wondering how and why a bunny might attack a person?

About 6 pm, I took the dog, Miss Sugar Plum, outside – her leash is one of those 16 foot retractables and she likes to run out into the grass ahead of me and if no one is around, I let her. As I came to the edge of the building breezeway where there is a foot or so distance between the porch-roof archway pillar and the building – suddenly something hit my inner leg, right at the knee … quite hard.

I nearly went down! I certainly was not expecting a rabbit to be bouncing off me like I was part of the sidewalk or building :) so I was not braced for the impact. I saw the bunny land on the ground in the grass – it felt like time stood still while I stared at that bunny tail – the bunny kept right on going – Miss Sugar Plum was facing me scrunched into girl dog pee position looking at me like HUH because of my loud startlement response screech. I don’t think she even realized the bunny rabbit had been or was there!

But I am very sure that Miss Sugar Plum scared the rabbit into running by being out there … LOL … and I just strolled into it’s hop landing zone at the right second to be a “bunny rabbit trampoline” last evening.