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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSwamp rabbits. Who knew...
Here is a video of a rabbit I hadn't heard of before.
Pretty impressive fur ball.
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Swamp rabbits. Who knew... (Original Post)
Old Crank
Nov 21
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Autumn
(46,508 posts)1. President Carter knew.
https://thebaffler.com/stories/jimmy-carters-rabbit
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2015/04/24/sot-jimmy-carter-rabbit-attack-reliable-sources-2010.cnn
Im talking about what happened with the swamp rabbit. The newspapers called it a killer.
The killer rabbit plowed through the water toward Carters boat in the spring of 1979. Carter was fishing alone on a pond at the time. Startled, he threatened the thing with his oar, splashing at the water to shoo it away. The vermin grudgingly changed its course. Not much of a story, but when it was leaked Carter was ridiculed for telling tall tales. People didnt believe rabbits could swim, for one thing. But soon a White House photographer showed up with pictures of the scene that backed Carter up, showing a large, light-brown hare, red-eyed and dog-paddling, and Carter splashing the waters surface a few feet from the animal in what looked like a feeble defensive posture.
The killer rabbit plowed through the water toward Carters boat in the spring of 1979. Carter was fishing alone on a pond at the time. Startled, he threatened the thing with his oar, splashing at the water to shoo it away. The vermin grudgingly changed its course. Not much of a story, but when it was leaked Carter was ridiculed for telling tall tales. People didnt believe rabbits could swim, for one thing. But soon a White House photographer showed up with pictures of the scene that backed Carter up, showing a large, light-brown hare, red-eyed and dog-paddling, and Carter splashing the waters surface a few feet from the animal in what looked like a feeble defensive posture.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2015/04/24/sot-jimmy-carter-rabbit-attack-reliable-sources-2010.cnn
quaint
(3,611 posts)2. Fresh from school, my husband was a herper counting reptiles in the Georgia swamps.
Pre-internet, I thought he was making up his rabbit stories.
chouchou
(1,362 posts)3. It's really, really hard to not like Bunnies.
fargone
(236 posts)4. I Don't Want a Bunny Wunny
Solly Mack
(93,053 posts)5. :)
I knew. See them often.
wryter2000
(47,551 posts)6. What a cool place
Thanks for posting.