From time to time, Google's home search page presents relevant greetings of the day. This was their tribute to the Year of the Rabbit, last Thursday 3 February 2011.
Upside-down Fook character. Nice!
Serious message time: Gift bunnies not such a cute idea, warn groups (The Standard)
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said 194 rabbits were abandoned last year, up 3 percent from 188 abandoned in 2009. But [the SPCA] warned that the figure may rise by 30 to 40 percent this year because more people bought or gave rabbits to celebrate the new lunar year.
That's a prediction of up to 271 rabbits being abandoned for 2011. SPCA director of welfare Fiona Woodhouse also said:
Boyfriends who plan to buy rabbits for their girlfriends on Valentine's Day should find something else.
Woodhouse was talking about girlfriends, right? Lol. Any gf who likes to own a rabbit simply because it is trending now deserves to be replaced. And any bf who thinks it is a good idea to buy a rabbit (or a pet) for someone wholly on a whim should be single. IMHO.
On a related note, last year was the Year of the Tiger. So going by these "traditional" attitudes, Chinese people should have been respecting tigers relatively better in "their" year. I wonder how many tigers, especially in China, were maltreated, abused and killed in 2010?
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