For children, rabbits should be left to imagination - that way, nobody gets hurt.

I'm not the one to direct a person to animal-care informational sites - "animal rights" goosesteppers drive me mad - but after reading this column in National Review today I couldn't help but remember when my friends and I stumbled upon a rabbit warren. In our youthful, blissful stupidity, we children ended up driving the mother away and killing (mostly indirectly, we tried to be gentle) all but one of them. I still feel like I should be paying reparations to bunnies - if they ever formed a government, of course, to send the checks to.

There's a connection between premature bunny expiration and Mrs. Gurdon's children. I offered this helpful site if any doubt remained in her mind why the family pet chose early admission to the great clover patch in the sky.

My own advice to her? Try a dog next time. They're durable.

ALSO: And, speak of the long-eared devil, Anna is back!