If rabbits can pick up a human emotion why not humans themselves? There is story in the Times about a man who can put rabbits in a trance.
Couple of quotes caught my eye. Firstly they say that some rabbits have “behavioral problems”. Let’s see you cage a free roaming animal to eventually be slaughtered and you complain about the “behavioral problems”. That’s rabbit’s job, just go see some cartoons again… “Mr Penrose, who has bred rabbits for 30 years, said that it was important to be confident when holding them. “If you are scared or nervous or stressed then the rabbit will sense that — they are extremely intelligent animals.”
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