I took the old Brno #2 out to a country range today and while picking up a sheet of plywood backer came across this cottontail. Not only was he not particularly scared of me, he actually hopped up to my foot to remain in the shade on this hot summer's day. I put the muzzle of my Brno down and scratched his ears and head. The rifle had a round in the chamber and the safety on. That rabbit will never know how close he was to the hereafter!~AMMOe

WOW, I think the heat must have got to him.

That's purdy cool. Isn't Nature the most wonderful of all creations?

Just before Dad sold his farm and moved to town, I visited the old home place. I was sitting on the front porch/step, surveying the place, and up hopped a little cottontail to nibble on the flowers. He wasn't quite that close, but plenty close enough. The old beagle dog apparently didn't spook him, either.

Dad always tied up the beagle during deer season, and I'll never forget one day, about lunchtime, seeing old Snoopy tied up to his doghouse, and surrounded by about a half-dozen rabbits, all JUST out of reach, like the old hounddog in the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons. He was too fat to chase them around, anyway, but it was still funny as hell to see him surrounded. Somehow, they KNOW......................

I'm not as charitable with jackrabbits, this one interrupted my lunch when I was PDoggin' on the Rosebud last year. It's not polite to mess with a guy's lunchtime break...........

Gad! I used to love Foghorn Leghorn. It's odd but maybe what they say is true; animals can sense when you mean them no harm -or can't DO them any harm! That Jack on the other hand, had a lot of nerve interrupting your meal and certainly got what he deserved! ~AMMOe

GREAT pic, BTW!