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The Daring Dufas[_8_]

On 1/30/2013 3:54 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 07:24:39 -0600, wrote:

On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 05:20:49 -0500, "Existential Angst"
wrote:

DENVER (CBS4) Travelers have a warning for drivers who park their cars
near Denver International Airport (DIA). Rabbits are chewing the wires
under many cars costing owners a lot of money. The rabbits get in and
chew the brake lines, the clutch lines and other wiring. Local car
repair shops estimates they can do thousands of dollars in damage.

While I can see a rabbit *able* to chew wires, there is no way they can
chew thru brake lines. I think this is an article written by the
National Enquirer or similar rag. And having had pet rabbits in the
past, they CAN and DID chew up plastic bowls, but I see no reason they
would chew up wires. The bowls are where their food came from, thus
they chewed on them, but this article seems way too far fetched.

Believe me, they can and DO eat rubber hoses (brake and clutch lines)
and wiring. My brother had a pet rabbit. It had the run of the house
and atekeyboard and mouse cables, lamp cords, and the power cord to
the printer. It blew several fuses without ever harming itself.

A darn chipmunk did over $1500 damage to my wife's Mystique - wirs,
vacuum hoses, and hood insulator.

My sister and her husband had a weird little dog that would get angry
and run around the house yanking out all the lamp and appliance power
cords. One day, weird little dog bit down too hard. After cleaning up
the mess caused by the evacuation of weird dog's alimentary tract and
determining weird little dog was still alive, my sister said weird dog
was even weirder afterwards but he never touched another power cord. ^_^

TDD