AIBU to think that bunnies are fluffy but not velvety?

[ClaireDeLoon]

:o a place to hide from extreme opinions and comtemplate fluffy things like bunnies and kittens.

Yes a chicken is a direct descendant from the T-Rex I read it. In a newspaper and everyfink.

We had a lionhead rabbit - it was lovely. Think it was a boy, so HE was lovely.

Oooh, oooh how about an Angora Goat ?

Fluffy and cuts the grass. Cute and has a purpose !

Does a bat's wing feel leathery or rubbery?

silkies? (legwarmer chicken)

joolyjoolyjoo Is a Beagles ears more velvety (velvetyer?) than a Vizslas ears? Huh? Huh?

(Note - I think my vizsla is perfection personified)

suncottage - leathery and quite smooth (but i have only felt a dead one)....

Are a beagles ears.

Dammit.

OMG- I had no idea! its true!

Agree with Timpson - we rescued a baby one on holiday 3 years ago. Le Bat. Bless.

Yep bats wings are leathery, but quite fragile-feeling too. I picked up a live one once, which had got stuck in a church during renovation works. We popped it in a box and left if with the verger to take outside once it got dark!

Those chickens are <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=silkies&hl=en&sa=X&tbm=isch&prmd=ivns&tbnid=qhe3hYvxZqTxxM:&imgrefurl=www.backyardchickens.com/images/breeds/&docid=7TSbC9qrGPm1bM&w=400&h=498&ei=vvxDTqDeMIePswapn-HoBw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=522&vpy=111&dur=879&hovh=251&hovw=201&tx=104&ty=153&page=1&tbnh=163&tbnw=127&start=0&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0&biw=1280&bih=855" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">silkies

And pinot, on a velvetiness scale of 1-10, while I concur that a visla's ears may well be an 8.5, beagles ears are a 9.7. And I am an expert, and must therefore be right

Abs THANK YOU!! That's the one!!

Donkey, posted another picture of our lionhead cross (called Lela) looking fluffy & ginger eared!

What's the worst feeling animal you've touched?
My vote is for Sea Cucumber, freaky vegetable bastards.

That silkies link is how I look after a night out.

Woman Lela is gorgeous !

Worst feeling ? I think it has to be a snake. I don't like them anyway, and I haven't held one for years but the memory.

Urgh.

Aw, Mrsdonkey I've always wanted a pet called Leroy . I want to stand in the park with all the other owners and their Hectors/Oscars/Bathshebas (really) and shout 'LEROY'!

Maybe Leronda?

I have begged and begged and begged DP to help me steal a highland coo calf when we're in Scotland but he won't let me. I bet they are very fluffy in a silky way.

And yes, I have used my poor bunnies as dog substitutes. DH hates dogs.

The worst feeling animals I have ever touched? Close run thing between

<a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=skinny+pigs&hl=en&sa=X&tbm=isch&prmd=ivns&tbnid=43ObEXTHaulnTM:&imgrefurl=www.cutehomepets.com/the-hairless-guinea-pig/&docid=NUizOYvYy4vHIM&w=351&h=250&ei=0P9DTvnmLIOy8QPspsHsBQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=187&vpy=478&dur=1781&hovh=189&hovw=266&tx=122&ty=141&page=1&tbnh=156&tbnw=204&start=0&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,r:10,s:0&biw=1280&bih=855" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">skinny pigs

and swans. With lice. Big lice, that crawl all over your hands. and once you see one, you realise there are 10,000

the worst thing that has touched me, on the other hand, was a big gropey elephant trunk which came in through the sunroof of our jeep and had a good feel around with its hairy prehensile snout- eeeek!

Agree with snake.

and elephant - I rode an elephant last year on my birthday (that will really take some topping this year!) and it freaked me out.

I'm a delicate soul me

No to penguins as household pets.

Their shit streaks out in a jet. If you fed them one part fish to two parts lighter fuel you could use them as makeshift flamethrowers in the event of attack by zombies or looters (probably the same). In that event I might let them live in the bath.

Sorry for mentioning the L-word.

Otters are really stinky which is a shame because I sometimes think I'd like to be reincarnated as one. Being an otter looks like fun. My own stink wouldn't bother me but the smell of the others would get me down a bit.

Meerkats are sinister.

Snakes are just wrong. They just are. Horrible things. They are ugly, and they feel bleurgh.

Scrambled Leronda is much better ! Or Lerondie ?!

I could never touch a snake. Or lizard. Or giant hairy spider.

I don't think I've ever touched an unpleasant animal because why would you when there are fluffy ones around?

jooly I didn't know that about swans .

I used to live near Theydon Bois, Essex, which is populated by the some most irritating, busybody snobs on Earth. Sorry, if anyone lives there but come on, you must admit it.

They were thrilled when a pair of swans set up home in their village pond almost certainly because it would be wonderful for property prices. It's not a village, btw, but that's another moan.

The swans set about liquidating the pond of all other species. I wouldn't have let a small dog or child get too close either.

Then another swan, a male, set up home too. Instead of driving off his rival the initial male cosied up to him in the manner of those dolphins we were discussing earlier.

The female hopped it. Theydon Bois deserved a pair of vicious gay swans swaggering about the village green.

"Their shit streaks out in a jet. If you fed them one part fish to two parts lighter fuel you could use them as makeshift flamethrowers in the event of attack by zombies or looters (probably the same). In that event I might let them live in the bath."

You redeemed penguins right there! imagine, your property's being threatened. You send the penguin out. It waddles over, poos, you throw a lighted match and KABOOM