#so my siblings and i were made EXTREMELY aware of myxomatosis from a very early age | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

thedreadvampy · 2 years

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talking a lot about rabbit meat atm. One track mind.

anyway when me and my twin were like 2 and the social worker came round to check on us as a standard checkup (my mum was effectively a single mother of three toddlers living several miles out of town at that time so in need of some support), my sibling toddled up to her as she was leaving and said very firmly,

"You don't eat rabbits what have been runned over. You eat rabbits what have been shot."

rabbits were not a topic of conversation at the time. this was an unsolicited Toddler Fact. anyway that's what I think about whenever I think about rabbit. you don't eat rabbits what have been runned over.

#red said #i guess from an adult perspective you CAN eat rabbits what have been runned over #but you have to be very lucky to find one that isn't flat or riddled with myxy #a LOT of roadkill rabbits are myxy rabbits cause they can't see the danger #you definitely don't eat rabbits what have got myxy lesions #i think that's the thing with me like. my mum was VERY concerned with myxy when we were kids #i think bc it's really hard to stop small children seeing a rabbit that isn't running away and going OOH A BUNNY WHO IS MY FRIEND #and rubbing their hands all over a distressed animal with a highly infectious disease #so my siblings and i were made EXTREMELY aware of myxomatosis from a very early age #to the tune of If A Wild Rabbit Is In Any Circumstance Not Responding To Danger It Is Probably Dying Of Illness And Should Not Be Touched

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