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Spare a thought for the poor punters who put a bet on Ginny Lou in the Finer Fruit Stakes in Australia earlier this week. The racing greyhound was coming a respectable third at the track in Shepperton, Victoria, when she was suddenly confronted with two hares to chase. Spectators were just as confused as the wild hare ran across the track, straight into the path of a thundering pack of eight greyhounds trained to chase him down. The rest of the dogs continued to chase the fake but Jinny Lou -showing a taste for reality over fantasy - veered off...

Anchorage Police are asking residents to take extra precautions around bears after a bizarre incident Thursday morning almost a triggered a bear attack in East Anchorage. Officers say they responded to the 200 block of Yellow Leaf Circle just after 10 a.m. when neighbors called to report a woman was chasing a bear down an alley. When they arrived, they learned that a black bear had jumped into Karan Nixon's fenced yard on the nearby Orange Leaf Circle, snatching her pet rabbit "George" with its teeth. After hearing the rabbit screaming, the Nixon, who was wearing stockings, then chased the...

At 4ft 3in from nose to tail, Darius the Continental Giant has been crowned the world's biggest rabbit. And he's still growing. Darius, pictured with six-year-old Georgia Hadley, is only just over 12 months old and breeder Annette Edwards expects him to keep adding to his 3st 7lb bulk for at least another six months. That's good news for her greengrocer in Worcester because he already eats 12 carrots, six apples and two cabbages a day.

There are lots of well known facts about the Easter Bunny. For instance, we know it was in Germany that the Easter Bunny (originally the Easter Hare) was first associated with the holiday. We also know that 18th century German settlers in America started the tradition of creating bright and colorful "nests" into which the giant cottontail would place colored eggs. Those nests evolved into our modern day Easter baskets that overflow with candy and other surprises on Easter morning. Less well known is the political affiliation of the Easter Bunny but we do have three clear signs that he...

Easter turducken Most traditional holidays are syncretised perversions of even older traditions, which then get secularized into excuses to eat a whole bunch. Christmas falls, not coincidentally, close to the winter solstice, and borrows heavily from earlier winter festivals, featuring lots of gingerbread, candy canes, traditional hams and large family feasts. Thanksgiving, being largely a continuation of post-harvest feasts in Europe, has always been about eating. We have, of course, taken this to ridiculous extremes with turducken, a Thanksgiving dish prepared by… …cramming a boneless chicken into a boneless duck, which is stuffed into a boneless turkey. Three kinds of...

Lucky To Be Alive: The Bunny Torched In His Hutch By Drunk Woman During Family Argument [Pic in URL] By LIZ HULL 17th March 2010 Cowering in fear, his fur scorched, this is a traumatised rabbit just minutes after a heartless yob set him alight. He was left badly burned and blistered when Katey Barber torched his hutch after drinking seven cans of lager. The 22-year-old had been burning clothes belonging to her mother's partner in the garden before turning her attention to the rabbit. Charred: Bunny the rabbit is a sorry sight after his owner's sister set light to...

(CBS) Ralph the rabbit seems to be the stuff of fairy tales: Once upon a time, there lived a rabbit named Ralph. He lived in England. But he wasn't any ordinary rabbit... But this rabbit isn't the stuff of Peter Cottontail. Ralph the rabbit would likely frighten Peter by his immense size. Ralph weighs in at 42 pounds and is about two feet long -- bigger than most 3-year-old kids. And he's still growing, eating about four pounds of food a day. One could claim Ralph's the biggest bunny ever. However, it can't be officially verified because the Guinness Book...

Residents in Stockholm are divided over reports that rabbits are being used to make biofuel. The bodies of thousands of rabbits are fuelling a heating plant in central Sweden, local newspapers say. The city of Stockholm has an annual cull of thousands of rabbits to protect the capital's parks and green spaces.

This is my first posting and I aplogize that it is a vanity. But every morning I get up at 5:30 and check into what is happening on FR. My wife appears at about 6:30 and asks what's going on. After a few minutes of me railing, she always asks if there are any "fluffy bunny" stories. Normally, I would consider a perp getting shot, a fluffy bunny story, she is looking for something different. Stories about baby pink elephants are good. Srories about an old WW2 vet getting his H/S diploma are good. So could the FR team help...

Please watch and watch again. Send it to everyone you know. Expose the truth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeii225G-HM

HALSEY, Ore. One way or another, a Halsey woman promises to keep a popular cartoon book out of the Central Linn High School library.

Enjoying a leisurely wade in the waters of the Dutch undergrowth this grey heron decided to go in search of lunch when he came across this unsuspecting black rabbit. Undeterred by its size, the grey heron, the largest bird of its kind in Europe, swooped down and gobbled the rabbit up in one mouthful, as these pictures show.

Serial rabbit killer uses Google maps to find victims German police are concerned that the person killing rabbits may go on to kill human beings Roger Boyes in Berlin The roll call of victims is growing longer by the day. They have names like Rocco, Fussel, Marianne and Fluffy — and a five-man police unit has a file on each and every one. The so-called “bunny murders” — 40 domestic rabbits killed at night in their hutches, heads and sometimes paws sliced off, their bodies drained of blood — is stunning communities across western Germany. “Nobody knows where the killer...

At 4ft long and weighing three-and-a-half stone, Amy the rabbit is so big she has to sleep in a dog kennel. Her owners claim the three-year-old doe, from the Continental Giant breed, is the largest rabbit in the world after she outgrew her mate Roberto, who took the title in 2004. The Guinness Book of World Records stopped handing out awards to large animals in that year for fear it would encourage owners to overfeed their pets. But Annette Edwards, who owns the rabbits, said she had not heard of a rabbit beating Roberto's record therefore as Amy is larger...

President Bush and first lady Laura Bush, accompanied by the Easter Bunny, kick off the start of the White House Easter Egg Roll, Monday, March 24, 2008, on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington. Jenna Bush, the daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush, roars as she enacts one of the monster characters of the book "Where the Wild Things Are" during her book reading for children at the annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, March 24, 2008.

He has been seen on grilled cheese sandwiches, in windows and in clouds, and now Jesus has been seen on a pancake. Marilyn Smith was making a pancake a couple of weeks ago. As she was sprinkling it with chocolate powder, the Port St. Lucie woman noticed two figures in the grill marks. To her and her daughter, they appeared to be Jesus and Mary. So, after holding onto it for a few days, they decided to put it up for auction on eBay. The starting bid was $35. when the auction ended just before midnight last night, the winning...

(AP) A pet rabbit named Sugar Bunny was stolen from a preschool and fliers protesting circus animal acts were left in its empty cage. The preschool's children gathered in a circle Monday to remember Sugar Bunny. "We talked about how some people have different ideas about animals," said teacher Lori Peters. "Some people don't think they should be in cages." Sugar Bunny vanished from the Community Building Children's Center on Saturday, teachers said. "Somebody stoled him," 5-year-old Zion told The Spokesman-Review, which gave only the first names of him and other children in a report on the heist. "I'm sad."...

I have disliked Dick Vitale for a long time and always thanked God for whoever invented the mute button when he appeared on TV. He is a pompous, egotistical jerk who would make a better barker at a carnival than sportscaster. I've now upgraded him to "despised" because of his spilling of information told to him in confidence during a discussion with coach Billy Donovan. Never mind whether he knew he was on the air or not. "Confidential" means exactly that. Vitale should have kept his mouth shut, period. CLIFF HARRISON Winter Haven

A Colossal Leap of Faith In Fight Against Famine North Koreans See Potential in German Breeder's Giants By Craig Whitlock Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, February 2, 2007; A10 EBERSWALDE, Germany -- Few people raise bigger bunny rabbits than Karl Szmolinsky, who has been producing long-eared whoppers since 1964. His favorite breed, German gray giants, are the size of a full-grown beagle and so fat they can barely hop. Last year, after the retired chauffeur entered some of his monsters in an agricultural fair, word of his breeding skills spread to the North Korean Embassy in Berlin. Diplomats looked past...