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BINKYBUNNY FORUMS

This topic has 13sd replies, 8 voices, and was last updated 17 years, 7 months ago by kimberleyanddarren.

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- 07/24/2008 at 7:42 AM
  kralspace
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  Wow, this story says their free roaming rabbit saved their lives by waking them up after a fire started in their home!
  
  Awesome!
  
  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4390578.ece for the story and photo.
  
  heres the text:
  
  It’s a story to make Watership Down seem realistic, but a pet rabbit has been credited with saving an Australian couple from a blaze which was burning down their house as they slept.
  
  The bunny awoke its owners, Gerry and Michelle Finn, by scratching on their bedroom door as smoke poured through the house, in the Macleod area of Melbourne.
  
  The couple discovered the blaze spreading rapidly through the back of their home, destroying part of the inside of their house and some of the roof.
  
  Neighbours then piled in with hoses to help save the house before fire crews arrived, at 6am today.
  
  Mrs Finn said the bunny, simply named Rabbit, is usually allowed to roam freely around the house unless there are guests.
  
  She said that it had alerted the couple in the nick of time.
  
  “We were both asleep. It was very lucky for both of us,” Mrs Finn said. “I don’t think he was very impressed (by the smoke).”
  
  The fire wrecked two years of renovations, which the couple had just completed.
  
  “We’ve been renovating for two years. We started with a disaster and now this. All that hard work gone,” she added.
  
  Mick Smith, a commander for Melbourne’s Metropolitan fire service, said the rabbit had been responsible for rescuing Mr and Mrs Finn. “The rabbit saved the couple from injury,” he said.
  
  He said it took four fire crews to extinguish the blaze, which caused substantial damage. The rabbit and its owners were unhurt.
- 07/24/2008 at 7:52 AM
  Kokaneeandkahlua
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  LOL he was waking them up to let them know “He HIGHLY DISAPPROVED of house fires’
  
  That’s pretty amazing! Mind if I move this to the lounge?
- 07/24/2008 at 8:14 AM
  kralspace
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  be my guest, didn’t quite know where to post it.
  
  you’re right that would be the ultimate disapproval!
- 07/24/2008 at 8:23 AM
  Beka27
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  wow. that’s unbelievable…
  
  it was probably an afterthought tho…
  
  “i am HUNGRY!!! oh yeah, and the house is on fire.”
- 07/24/2008 at 8:35 AM
  kralspace
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- 07/24/2008 at 8:37 AM
  Sarita
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  Rabbits are so smart :~)
  
  That is a gorgeous rabbit too. That is sad though about their home.
- 07/24/2008 at 11:30 AM
  Sage Cat
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  There is a video of this on CNN.com.
  Sorry could not copy a link. Go to Videos – World – International – to find it.
  The mom said the rabbit will be getting some fruit as a reward!
- 07/24/2008 at 11:36 AM
  Binkles
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  That’s amazing! Though it doesn’t suprize me! Binkles always let me know whenever something needed tending to. Food. Water. Hay. Snuggles.
- 07/25/2008 at 8:58 AM
  PeppersMama
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  lol i was reading the comments at the bottom of the page and had to laugh about this
  
  Rabbits are very smart. I have had a pet bunny since 2001 and he has saved my life numerous times. When I was deployed overseas, he spotted and destroyed 2 Iraqi tanks that had crept up on my position, before I even knew what was happening. They are smart (seriously) I’d kiss that little face.
  
  Martin, Harlem, USA
  
  hahaahaha
- 07/25/2008 at 9:02 AM
  PeppersMama
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  and these two loL!
  
  MNot impressed. I had a rabbit named Clyde in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and the rabbit saved my life. My car plunged off a bridge into a river. My rabbit somehow knew what was happening and broke through the windshield and pulled me to shore. We were on the way to the vet. He got a carrot
  
  Tony, Minneapolis,
  
  Great story! I once had a pet rabbit named “Ace” who often flew in my Piper Super Cub aircraft. Once while flying the Alaska Wilderness I went to sleep at the stick. My rabbit “Ace” quickly realized the danger and landed the plane from the back seat safely on a gravel bar in the river without inc
  
  Bill, anchorage, United States
  
  did anyone else read the comments? theyre hilarious!
- 07/25/2008 at 9:42 AM
  Beka27
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  some of the comments are saying the bunny probably chewed a wire and started the fire himself. it is a possibility, but chances are the bunny wouldn’t have survived if that were the case.
- 07/25/2008 at 10:59 AM
  Binkles
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  xDD Omg LAWL…
  
  I have to say, the Iraqi tank one got me in the most giggles..
- 07/25/2008 at 11:08 AM
  Kokaneeandkahlua
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  At first I thought ‘peppersmama’ was writing that-as herself…and I’m like this is really weird..LOL READ LESLEY READ the whole thing LOL
  
  Beka, totally “i am HUNGRY!!! oh yeah, and the house is on fire.” ROTFL
- 07/25/2008 at 11:13 AM
  kimberleyanddarren
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  lol it was probably more along the lines of ‘errm hello there is something really hot downstairs and it is destroying my NAP time, get it SORTED.. oh yeah and NOW!’ lol
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