Darling Companion's Bunny Buddy

After mowing one day, I proceeded to sweep the sidewalk of the grass and other accumulated detritus when I heard this very rapid scraping sound. Then it stopped. So I continued sweeping, and it started again. Now, there ain’t much of anything out in this part of the country, and even less that makes a noise like that, so I investigated a bit further fearing that it was something serpentine and vocal that could potentially cause my demise.

Well, I finally found it. It was a baby jack rabbit hiding in the downspout of our gutters. Every time I made a noise, he would scramble madly up his new high-tech rabbit hole only to discover that he had made no progress on the slippery, and somewhat radically inclined, surface.

Darling Companion took the enclosed photograph of his little rabbit butt sticking out of the drain. She also worried incessantly about his safety. I made him a little shelter out of a toad house, originally purchased for our two-timing toads, and he took refuge in it after getting washed out of the downspout during that evening’s downpour. You just never know what you are going to see in the country.