Dogs and rabbits and silly neighbours

[rabbit dog from a photoshop contest]

This is the other story I heard over dinner. Not sure this is true, but I thought it's kind of fun, so here goes nothing.

Apparently there is a village just outside Corinth, where there are two neighbouring houses with adjacent gardens. The owners of these houses were already not talking to each other for various reasons, but things got even worse after the dog owned by the one family tried to massacre a poor little rabbit owned by the others. The rabbit was saved at the last moment, but a lot of fighting took place, until they decided to build a small wall between their gardens to prevent the two animals from coming within range of each other.

Anyway... one day both houses were empty, the families being away or something, and the dog was left to wonder unsupervised in its respective garden. As the owners of the dog returned, they witnessed a horrifying scene. The dog had jumped over the fence into the neighbour's garden, and had the rabbit between its teeth. It was shaking it, smashing it against the ground, trying to tear it into pieces. The state of the rabbit I won't even describe. The owners of the dog jumped at it, removed the rabbit from it's mouth, took the dog back into its garden, and tried to resuscitate the rabbit. But in vain; it was totally dead.

What now, they pondered. The other family was not back yet, so they decided to carefully clean the rabbit, dry it with a hairdrier, puff it up, and put it back in its garden, as if it were simply asleep. When, later, the owners would discover it dead, they would pretend they had nothing to do with it. And so it happened.

A few hours later, they watched the other family walk into their garden. To their surprise, as soon as the mother saw the rabbit at a distance of about 10 meters, she screamed "OH MY GOD!!! MY RABBIT!!!" and fainted. There was a big fuss as the rest of the family tried to bring her about, slapping her face and throwing water at her. The owners of the dog jumped out and ran also, more out of curiosity than altruism.

One of them just couldn't resist the temptation. "But, how did she know the rabbit was dead?".

"What are you talking about", came the reply from the woman's husband. "The rabbit died two days ago! She buried it herself in the garden yesterday!"