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NEWS ABOUT: rabbits

rabbits stories: 5 news summaries

(Newser) - Swedes got a scare this weekend after an artist wrapped bunches of carrots with black tape to make them look a bit like dynamite, attached clocks and wires and placed them around the southern city of Orebo. Police received several concerned calls from the public about the "Bunny Project:... More »

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rabbits • police • art • Sweden • artist • bunker busting bombs • carrots • Bugs Bunny

Tim Gunn Goes to Bat
for Bunnies

Grisly video appeal asks designer to lay off rabbit fur

Dec 21, 08 8:14 AM CST
(Newser) - Project Runway's favorite nice guy Tim Gunn is joining the anti-fur PETA campaign with a personal video plea to designers amid shocking images of screaming skinned rabbits, reports the New York Post. PETA is focusing on designers using rabbit fur from China, where there are no animal protection laws. Any... More »

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fashion • rabbits • fur • PETA • Project Runway • fashion designer • animal • Tim Gunn

 Serial Bunny Killer
 Plagues German Town 

Rabbits are snatched from cages and beheaded

Jun 11, 08 5:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - A special bunny task force has been established in the German town of Witten to track down a mystery serial killer who's been beheading pet rabbits for a year, Der Speigel reports. At least 40 rabbits have been snatched from cages in the area. Their corpses are usually left behind.... More »

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pets • rabbits • beheading • killings • Gemany

Giant Bunnies Hit Silver Screen

Doc details how N. Korean officials devoured monster rabbits meant for poor

Feb 18, 08 12:10 PM CST
(Newser) - Giant bunnies overran the 2008 Berlin Film Festival, reports Der Spiegel—in the form of a 5-minute documentary on the international intrigue that ensued when a German rabbit breeder sent a dozen of his 20-pounders to North Korea to be bred to help alleviate hunger. Instead, they met a tragic... More »

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North Korea • rabbits • giant rabbits • East Germany • Kim Jong Il • Berlin Film Festival • Johan Onah • Karl Szmolinsky • Berlinale

Kim Jong-Il
Ate My Giant Bunnies!

And German rabbit farmer is hopping mad...

Apr 5, 07 9:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Karl Szmolinsky sent giant rabbits to North Korea to alleviate hunger, and Kim Jong-Il ate them. The German rabbit farmer suspects that the twelve "German Grey Giants" he sent to the country were eaten at a birthday banquet for the dictator instead of being used in a breeding program... More »

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philanthropy • North Korea • weird • Germany • rabbits • giant rabbits • international development • hunger • hunger alleviation • Kim Jong Il • Karl Szmolinsky

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