The two main contributing factors to the opinion of rabbits seems to be age and nationality. The English seem to like rabbits, Richard Adams (Watership down) and Beatrix Potter (Peter Rabbit) both based careers on the daily lives of rabbits and convinced many of their kind nature and exciting adventures. They are certainly responsible for my fond thought of the little scamps.
However, if you're Australian, you're taught from an early age that they are a pest, responsible for raising salinity, destroying crops and all but causing the drought. This doesn't stop Potters influence but limits it to children only.
I myself have a complex relationship with Rabbits. I had a rabbit in kindergarten, which scratched my teacher and was ultimately violently killed by our family dog. Reading Watership down and The adventures of Peter Rabbit have both aided the Rabbits cause. However being the Australian girl I am, I have also tried to trap Rabbits and eaten rabbit stew.
Here in England they are without doubt interesting to watch, but they turn jogging into an extreme sport, of which I'm not the best. Nothing like a foot down a rabbit hole to end your jog.
So I am sitting on the (rabbit proof) fence, along side Donnie Darko - though I might add my relationship with rabbits is nowhere as complex...
Pro Rabbits:
- Richard Adams
- Beatrix Potter
- Most English
- My little sisters
- Donnie Darko
Anti Rabits:
- Farmers
- People jogging in grasslands
- Most Australians
- My kindergarten teacher
- Donnie Darko
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