A
young couple lived next door to a family whose children owned a pet rabbit. This
couple had only recently moved into this neighborhood when one day, their dog
came bouncing into the house with the rabbit, now dead, in his mouth. The
next-door neighbors were out on a weekend trip, and they couldn’t tell the
family that their dog had killed the rabbit. So the husband decided that to just
clean up the dead rabbit and put it back in its cage, so the neighbors would
think the rabbit had died a natural death. There was no blood on the rabbit,
only dirt, and the couple assumed their dog had broken the rabbit’s neck. So
they proceeded to wash the rabbit, and even dried it with a hair dryer, and
placed it back in its cage in their neighbors’ backyard.
The
next day, the neighbors returned from their trip, and when the husband saw the
children’s father, he tried to act normal and asked how the trip was. His
neighbor answered, “It was great, but I”ll tell you, the damndest thing
happened.” And the man, nervous now, asked, “Oh yeah, what happened?” His
neighbor said, “Well, the rabbit died Friday before we left, so we buried it
and everything. But when we got back, there it was in its cage again, as clean
as could be!”
