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Wearing white after Labor Day
By adamg on Thu, 09/18/2014 - 8:42am
Andrea Crossan shows us what happens when a greyhound spots the fabled white bunny of Allston - on Islington Terrace.
Pandapwr, meanwhile, gets up and personal with one of the fabled white squirrels of the West End.
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White rabbit
White rabbits aren't common at all in the wild, I'm not saying it can't happen but it is much more likely that this was a pet that someone abandoned.
The MSPCA always has rabbits for adoption that were caught in parks in Massachusetts. People buy them for their kids around Easter and then get sick of caring for them. Instead of giving them straight to a shelter they decide it's easier to drop them off in a park.
Swifty!
Go simple, go easy
My grandmother in Whitman
has a squirrel she calls "Blondie" that visits her yard -- it's quite a light blonde color. Pretty cute.
Adorable!
Adorable!
Am I missing something?
I guess we now know that nothing happens when a greyhound spots a rabbit.
A restrained greyhound
Being sight hounds, they're bred to run after anything small that moves, if they aren't in a harness.
They can be trained at a young age not to do that, but that doesn't include most former racers. We had neighbors who were big into the Gray2K stuff, and their dogs were a bit of a handful and never seemed to learn about the downside of darting after and cornering skunks and racoons.
Both lazy and speedy
The squirrels in my parents fenced backyard got a rude surprise when my parents went from having elderly lab and dalmatian mixes to retired greyhounds. Several ended up with shortened tails.
The big problem with them being sight hounds was if they got out of the house or the car and ran off chasing something, they had no idea how to get back to where they started.
Ya, I've owned greyhounds so
Ya, I've owned greyhounds so I think I probably know more than the very average person who has only observed them. What I gleaned from the unremarkable picture was a greyhound looking at a rabbit, the same way mine looked at a rabbit, squirrel, small dog, or a bag of Snausages. I was hoping to see something more exciting (than a cute dog looking at a bunny), as the caption implied.
Smithers!
Release the hound!
Run away!
Nasty big pointy teeth!!
You can't wear white after Labor Day
That's not true anymore. Yes, it is! No, please! Fashion has changed!
SOON.
If ever there was a candidate for the "SOON." meme...