Wabbits and weed.

Originally posted Oct 15 2006 on my Friendster blog.

Dr House:Ok... It's time to go hunting.
Dr Foreman: For what?
Dr House:
Wabbits.

(House M.D., Season 1, Ep4)

Cracks me up everytime. That should have tipped you off as this post is all about rabbits. Specifically, a very big, fluffy she-rabbit (I'm assuming they checked) that is ALWAYS hungry.

The first thing that is funny about Tu-zhi (means 'rabbit' in Mandarin, we'll get to why later) is that she was found. Yup, discovered by my friends in a grassy, empty lot while they were walking home one day. She didn't seem to be owned, so they picked her up and took her home. Otherwise, she wouldn't have survived the winter and the dogs that roam the area. They didn't know what to name her, so they called her 'rabbit', hence Tu-zhi (they are Chinese).

The second funny thing about her happened at my house. Tu-zhi eats a LOT. she totally decimated my friends' garden and stripped the trees of bark, as high as she could reach. My postage-stamp size of a garden had some grass that needed to be cut so we adopted her for a while. She ate almost all the grass and anything else we gave her.

Now, my housemate cultivates a weed in a little pot. *koffweedkoff* I put the pot up on a chair lest Tu-zhi get at it so it was safe. But one day, he put the pot on the steps, in a patch of sunshine. I was on the phone with my best friend and I turned around to see the deng wabbit with its paws on the pot, face in the weed. I screeched for my housemate and he came running when he heard what the wabbit was up to. He hastily rescued his precious pot and Tu-zhi scuttled away, looking quite normal.

Later, Tu-zhi climbed up the steps so she was pressed up against the glass sliding door. My guy was looking at her when she fell backwards off the steps and broke an ashtray on the way down. It was must have been quite entertaining because he was still laughing when I went downstairs to see what was so funny.

We returned her soon after that but she is now the famous wabbit that got high.

Update: The wabbit died today (22/10/06). It lay down under the tree and never moved after that. Bye, Tu-zhi..