To think this was a really stupid question?

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DS let the bunnies out of their hutch this morning, as they spend each day hopping around the garden.

What he didn't realise was that the wind had blown a large hole in our wooden fence.

Our giant bunny took the opportunity to leg it through the hole into the next garden.... and from there into the next... and so on.

DS was hot on his trail.

Two gardens away a neighbour was walking up her driveway and sees DS frantically seraching for his rabbit. She stops DS and asks if he has lost anything.

Yes - says DS. Have you seen my rabbit?

What colour is it? asks the neighbour?

Grey - says DS

Oh yes - I saw him hopping down my driveway a few minutes ago - says neighbour.

Surely what colour is the rabbit is has to be the most stupid question in the circumstances?

I mean, if a giant bunny happens to hop past you one morning don't think think this might be slighlty out if the ordinary?

WTF does the colour of the giant escaped bunny matter?

We have lots of bunnies around here. If I saw a grey one I'd think it was wild. Black and white or apricot...not so much.

I see a rabbit. A few minutes later, a neighbour says they are looking for a rabbit. I think I'd connect the two without first having to ascertain whether it was the same rabbit via colour identification YANBU

same as pop.lots of rabbits round here,id assume wild.unless its one of those giant things .then id run

I'd classify it as a bit daft rather than really stupid.

Pleased to hear that bunny is now home.

Well we don't live in the middle of the countryside - so giant grey bunny could not be confused with little wild rabbits.

We live on densely packed suburban 80's housing estate.

You might think it's daft, but...

I once found a ferret, returned it to a house at the back with a missing ferret, only to discover the ferret I'd found was in fact someone else's missing ferret and theirs was found further away.

I mean, who knew there were so many ferrets escaping all over the place?

Oh well - I must be VU then.

I didn't consider that there may be hoards of giant escaped bunnies of various colours hopping around our Wimpey estate.

It never occurred to me that there could be more than one ferret - I'd never even seen a RL one until then, lol

Maybe your neighbour's returned the wrong rabbit before and now she checks?

Good point Tabulahrasa.

I once saw a chicken running the road...I didn't try and catch it though. I often wonder where it ended up!

Maybe she was just being friendly..... seems a bit of an over reaction on your part. Does it really matter?

There's a card in the local PO:

HAS ANYONE LOST A LARGE RABBIT? LIKE A WILD ONE ONLY LARGER AND TAME.

then underneath, same card

WANTED - TRAP

I'd imagine the whole conversation was just a bit of a brainfart for her.

You do have to be careful identifying animals. My bro once was due to take his large black tomcat to be neutered - so he picks large black tomcat off his fence and takes it to the vet.

Returns to find his large black still-tomcat sitting on the fence....I'm not sure if he ever found out who's cat got 'done' at his expense!

This reminds me of the time when we found next doors' white cat unfortunately squished on the main road, we did the neighbourly thing and wrapped poor Snowy up and took it round to them. Cue lots of tears (understandably) and the chap next door digging a hole in the back garden to bury him. The family were all stood saying their final goodbyes when their cat jumped over the fence and rubbed round their legs! Apparently there were two white cats living in our area!!

Luckily the next door neighbours saw the funny side!