Bunnies

When I came to my site I first met my family and soon after the bunnies. There were 4 rabbits. One, a skinny tan and white lady with a pretty pink nose used to hop into the house and eat lunch with us. Everyday at lunch time she knew to sneak into the house. We would forget about her until we heard her munching on cabbage and carrots and potatoes peels. She always kept a watchful eye on us, as though she was ready to run at any minute. My host mom Eli, would leave food scraps in a bowl so that throughout the day the tan bunny could come and go as she pleased. They even made her bedding in the kitchen so on cold nights she could sleep inside. While the tan rabbit lived the bunny life, the spotted brown, black and white one was nursing her 5 little conejitos (bunnies.) New born bunnies are hideous. My family describes them best, says they are puro raton (pure rats.) However, after a week they grow soft bunny hair and their little bunny eyes open and their tiny bunny ears stick up and they are just about the cutest things under the sun.
The other dark gray and white rabbit was forced to live in a small cage with Benjamin’s bunny. His bunny was the fattest of them all, an enormous rabbit. Eli would send Benjamin to feed the bunnies with food scraps and he would feed his bunny and his bunny only. Therefore it grew plump and large and delicious. One day, we realized that the skinny tan and white bunny wasn’t so skinny any more and that she was going to have her own bunch of little ratones. So Benjamin’s bunny had the luck of moving to the shed where Eli makes tortillas. It now had space to jump and hide and eat and burrow. Although all the tan rabbit's bunnies died for some mysterious reason one after another, Benjamin's rabbit was allowed to stay in the shed. For 2 months it lived happily in the shed, eating bits of maiz (tortilla dough) and growing ever fatter. I came home from school one afternoon and was surprised not to find Benjamin waiting for me with another tail of cars and crashes and killing animals and fights. When I asked where he was Eli told me that he was sulking for the neighbors had eaten his bunny! The bunny had been hopping about outside, contently eating away when the neighbors saw it and decided it would be a good dinner. They claim they thought it was a wild rabbit, but I’m not to sure about that. For days Benjamin cried and cried. On the fourth day of his rabbit's death Eli went to tortillar as normal. As she was forming her perfectly round tortillas out of the corner of her eye she saw a little baby bunny crawling amongst the firewood. Benjamin's rabbit had left behind 5 little babies under the brick oven. Their eyes still hadn't opened, but they were so hungry that they left their nest in search of food. Eli and family nursed them back to health with maiz sugar water. Once again we have little conejitos. I rather love little bunnies. Once they grow large they aren't so entertaining, but luckily rabbits seem to constantly procreate and we always have bunnies.