Dear Human Beings,
I know in the last week you’ve been hearing and seeing a lot about me on your tv, in your newspaper and here on Craigs List. Thank you to those who helped get me away from the bad people who tried to hurt me.
I have heard that there are some humans who don’t think what happened to me is a very important thing for humans to be worrying about. So, I thought maybe if you heard about it directly from me, you might understand it better.
My life has been a bit insecure . . . I’m not sure how I ended up being with the man who tried to kill me, Nick. I never felt very safe with him. A bunny knows if someone really loves her, or just sees her as an object to do things to.
The day they took me to the place with water, I was pretty scared. There were a lot of people with the Nick person and they were being loud and laughing a lot. Their laughter sounded hard and made me worry. Bunnies don’t like loud noises, either, so all this was pretty stressful for me.
When we got to the water place, they put something hard against me and wrapped something very sticky around me body to hold it on to me. This was painful: it pulled my skin and was pretty tight. I knew something bad was happening to me and I was very scared.
Next, I smelled a funny smell that hurt, almost burned, my sensitive nose. I heard a hissing, sizzling sound and felt something hot near me, but couldn’t tell what it was. I’ve since heard people saying something about a fuse being lit.
Suddenly, I was doing something bunnies aren’t meant to do: I was flying through the air and could only see the blue of the sky above me and the blue of the water below. We bunnies are ground dwellers and if we don’t feel some support, either from the ground, or from a nice person who knows how to hold us, it is very, very frightening!
When I hit the water, it really hurt! I couldn’t breathe very well and was cold. Bunnies don’t like water or to swim and the thing that was attached to me was heavy. I had a hard time keeping my nose and mouth above water. I thought my life was going to leave me.
I guess Nick and his friends thought the thing they attached to me would blow me up in the air and no one would find my parts in the water. This makes me very sad, because I don’t think my life was made to be ended so brutally or harshly by people who have no respect for any life but their own.
I know some humans give him the benefit of the doubt for swimming out to get me, but I think if they had another of those things they’d have tried it again. I couldn’t have survived another flight through the air and hitting the water, if the second thing didn’t blow me to bits. I also would remind people that when they got me to the dry place, they stood around and over me while I lay there wet, shivering and terribly scared, so they could take pictures of what they’d done to me. They later put these pictures in a place where other people could see them because they were proud of themselves. It would have been better if they’d wrapped me in something dry and held me close to make me warm, but they don’t have that kind of thing in them.
The people I’m with now aren’t like Nick and his friends. When I hear them laugh, it isn’t a mean, scary sound so I’m not so scared. They know what bunnies like! I have a clean place to live with a box to hide in if I want to be alone. They give me lots of good, healthy food, too. They speak to me gently, and their touch is gentle too. I’m still a little anxious sometimes and they don’t get mad at me. They also don’t make me wet, cold and scared for my life. I know if they found me wet and cold, they would make me warm and dry as soon as they could, and they wouldn’t take pictures!
I hope that reading these words will help you humans who think a bunny’s life isn’t as important as a human life (and that some human lives have less value than others) to understand that all beings have feelings and should be loved, not tortured, and cherished, not killed.
To all of you who already know these things, don’t give up trying to help all the voiceless, helpless beings that need you to speak up for them!
I’m going back to munching my hay now, and relaxing in my new space. Since I don’t have my own email, if you want to reply to me, please do so by posting to Craigs List.
With love and gratitude,
Lucky the Bunny
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