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Friday, October 23, 2009

I myself was born in the Year of the Horse, which means I can be headstrong, energetic, and talkative. But I am supposed to be talking about rabbits, not horses, so that's all I will say about the Year of the Horse!


Throughout history, there have been many famous rabbits. For instance, there's Br'er Rabbit, and there's the Easter Bunny, and of course there's Bugs Bunny. Bugs Bunny has appeared on TV many times, so most everybody knows who he is. Usually, he is eating a carrot, and he says, "Eh, what's up, Doc?" Sometimes he says other stuff too. And he talks funny, like he comes from the Bronx or Brooklyn or some weird place like that. Also he is always outsmarting Elmer Fudd, who keeps trying to shoot him.

Well, I am not sure that this moral is always true because for example if you are in a race to catch a rabbit so you can eat it, you need to go really fast, not "slow and steady." This is how sighthounds hunt, in a fast burst of speed. None of that "slow and steady" stuff for us!


Here's another nice painting of rabbits that I found. It was made by a man named Carl Oswald Rostosk in 1861. I think the two rabbits are wondering if they should challenge the turtle to a race, except if they know the story of the Tortoise and the Hare, they might be afraid that the turtle would win.
But this last painting is the best one of all because it shows a dog that has caught a rabbit and will probably be eating it soon. This dog is called a Landseer Newfoundland. It is different from a regular Newfoundland because it is black-and-white instead of just black. In some countries, the Landseer and the Newfoundland are two different breeds, but in the U.S., they are all lumped together as one breed.
The reason that the black-and-white Newfoundland got to be called "Landseer" was because of the artist Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, who painted this picture and lots of other pictures of this kind of dog. People liked the pictures a whole bunch, so they started calling the dogs Landseers. But anyway, the important point, as I mentioned before, is that the dog has caught a rabbit, and this shows that Mr. Landseer understood a lot about dogs, which means he was a very good person. I wish I could have known him, but he's dead now, so it's too late, and that's kind of sad.
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