A Horny Rabbit

It was certainly one of the CFZ new girls who sparked this post. Dear of them..

Maybe it was Jan Edwards and her musings on the Horne'd bunny of Woolsery, or maybe it was Naomi and her wonderful reportage on jackalopes the other day, but I suddenly remembered that I had these two photographs in my collection.

They were taken in a funny bar cum museum in downtown San Antonio at the end of 2004, during my hunt for the blue dogs of Texas. Unless they are a fake, and I don't think that they are they show real jackalopes - a rabbit suffering from the effects of the papillomavirus .

This is a condition that has been much writen about in Fortean circles but seldom seen, and I am feeling mildly embarrassed for having taken over four years to actually make these pictures public.

This is a particularly grotesque museum exhibit, and I was particularly pleased to see it, because - again - I had only ever heard descriptions of the condition and never actually seen it for myself...

Enjoy.