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Bunny burglary in Spokane:

Children at a downtown preschool got an unplanned lesson in animal rights activism when their pet rabbit was stolen and anti-circus fliers were left in the animal’s cage.

Sugar Bunny vanished from the Community Building Children’s Center during a celebration of building renovations Saturday evening, teachers said.

“Somebody stoled him,” 5-year-old Zion told The Spokesman-Review, which gave only the first names of him and other children in a report on the heist. “I’m sad.”

PETA goons are suspected. Check the teachers’ reaction:

Teachers gathered the children in a circle Monday to remember Sugar Bunny, some by drawing pictures and others by writing songs.

“We talked about how some people have different ideas about animals,” [teacher Lori Peters said]. “Some people don’t think they should be in cages.”

A better lesson for those kids: some people are thieves.

UPDATE: Site of Sugar Bunny’s theft corrected.

Posted by Tim B. on 09/27/2007 at 11:50 AM
  1. Tell those brainless, nasty thieves to come to my house to try to get Hershey (racks shell in chamber); I’ll give ‘em a warm, southern greeting:  buckshot. 

    What on earth are these fools smoking?  To hurt little children like that to further their insane agenda?  This is absolutely mindboggling. 

    Elizabeth
    Imperial Keeper

    Posted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2007 09 27 at 12:08 PM • permalink

  2. “We talked about how some people have different ideas about animals,” [teacher Lori Peters said]. “Some people don’t think they should be in cages.”

    Well, how about this: a one-for-one prisoner exchange? For every PETARD who turns himself into the pound, a dog or cat is released.

    Where Michael Vick went wrong was in sponsoring dog fights; if he had set up mud-wrestling bouts between naked PETA celebrity babes, he could have had hs own cable TV show.

    Posted by paco on 2007 09 27 at 12:12 PM • permalink

  3. Thieving bastards is more like it.

    And, paco?  The only PETA babes I know about are models hired by PETA.  (Female celebrities trying to refuel a stalled career don’t count, by definition they ain’t babes.)  Change that format to death matches between PETA executives, and you could sell it on pay-per-view for a bundle.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 09 27 at 12:23 PM • permalink

  4. “We talked about how some people have different ideas about animals,” [teacher Lori Peters said]. “Some people don’t think they should be in cages.”

    Dear God I truly hate that half of America.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 09 27 at 12:24 PM • permalink

  5. And, of course, if Sugar Bunny is released into the wild, he’ll last about 10 minutes.  I guess that’s “caring” for God’s creatures: abandon them to die.

    Idiots.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 09 27 at 12:30 PM • permalink

  6. They probably released the rabbit into the wild. Since I rather doubt it had ever spent a moment in the wild it’s probably dead by now.

    When I am Empress of the Universe, I will gather up all the PETA-philes and their like and release them naked in the middle of nowhere with not so much as a box of matches. If they make it back to civilization I’ll commute their sentence.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 09 27 at 12:30 PM • permalink

  7. Whoops—great minds think alike, Jeff_S!

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 09 27 at 12:31 PM • permalink

  8. #3: The only PETA babes I know about are models hired by PETA. Hey, I’m easy; hired PETARDS will do.

    death matches between PETA executives

    Use it as a summer replacement for the mud-wrestling (or vice versa). Now we’re talkin’ a cable channel!

    Posted by paco on 2007 09 27 at 12:33 PM • permalink

  9. What’s up, doc? My patience with scum like this. You just don’t kidnap rabbits belonging to a friggin’ KINDERGARTEN class. There is very little that is worse than grown adults stealing from kindergarteners.

    I don’t care if the elephant poops in front of me again like when I was 3, I’m going to the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey circus next time it’s in town, and not that sissy animal “loving” Quebeçois (not even really French) Cirque de Soleil.

    Posted by Attmay on 2007 09 27 at 12:36 PM • permalink

  10. If you can swing a show featuring numerous PETArds carefully staked to the ground and run over by a slow moving steam roller, I would pay good money to watch it. I’d give a month’s paycheck if you lit them on fire beforehand.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 09 27 at 12:36 PM • permalink

  11. #5 & #6: There have been some fairly . . .well . . .tragicomic incidents involving that sort of thing. I read a few years ago about a sea lion or sea otter or something that had been raised from a pup and then released into the surf only to be gulped down by a killer whale.

    Posted by paco on 2007 09 27 at 12:37 PM • permalink

  12. #11 There was a video clip of that floating around the net awhile back. I laughed till I cried. Not so much at the surprising violent action, but at the horror and shrieks of the tree-hugging onlookers.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 09 27 at 12:40 PM • permalink

  13. Whoops—great minds think alike, Jeff_S!

    Indeed they do!  :-P

    BTW, I have to wonder if this was an inside job.  While the theft took place during an open house (of sorts, or so I gather) where a lot of people milled about, it was likely not on impulse.  Unless PETARDs walk around Spokane on weekends with anti-circus fliers in their pockets, looking for animals to “rescue”, that is.  While that’s possible, either a parent or a school employee more likely was involved.

    Idiots.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 09 27 at 12:49 PM • permalink

  14. Oh it was definitely planned.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 09 27 at 12:52 PM • permalink

  15. I seem to recall that a number of years ago some PETA people released a bunch of minks that they stole from a farm into the wilds of the American mid-west.  They ravaged the local animal populations, killing off entire populations of birds and small animals.  The region has yet to recover.  That they didn’t think through the inevitable results of their actions is typical.

    Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2007 09 27 at 12:54 PM • permalink

  16. I’d give a month’s paycheck if you lit them on fire beforehand.

    So would I.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 09 27 at 01:04 PM • permalink

  17. Even pussificated Europe hasn’t gone this far over the edge. Certainly the USSR must have tested some form of dumb-ass gas on the west coast years ago that’s affected the population on the genetic level.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 09 27 at 01:08 PM • permalink

  18. So buy them another damn bunny. There’s millions of them. And they all do the same thing, which is nothing except poop and chew sideways. Make it two bunnies and you can modify your reproductive biology curriculum.
    That should annoy PETA to no end.

    Posted by Merlin on 2007 09 27 at 01:12 PM • permalink

  19. And the lesson here today, children, is that it is OK to break the law as long as you believe you are doing the right thing.

    I’d like to hear Dear Teacher Lori Peters apply that logic to Warren Jeffs.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 09 27 at 01:22 PM • permalink

  20. Bunnies are surprisingly scarce this year around here.  It’s probably wolves, if you believe the Lotka-Volterra equation.

    Posted by rhhardin on 2007 09 27 at 01:22 PM • permalink

  21. Maybe the adult who took the bunny was short of BBQ meat?

    Posted by Rob Read on 2007 09 27 at 01:36 PM • permalink

  22. rhardin…. You made me google. Physics just confuses the hell out of me. I prefer to think in terms of natural cycles. Either way , Sugar Bunny was probably an unexpected gift to the local predators as previous commenter’s have suggested.

    Posted by greene on 2007 09 27 at 01:52 PM • permalink

  23. Nothing lower than bunny rustlers.

    Posted by SoberHT on 2007 09 27 at 01:54 PM • permalink

  24. “We talked about how some people have different ideas about animals,” [teacher Lori Peters said]. “Some people don’t think they should be in cages.”

    I have a couple of Beagles that would do this to Sugar Bunny.  Of course PETA could substitute themselves for Sugar Bunny and whilst the Beagles chase them about I’ll let my boys get a little target practice…it’s easier to learn on a PETARD than a bunny anyway…....

    Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 09 27 at 02:11 PM • permalink

  25. Anybody remember the PETA maggot rendition in the Shawshank Redemption?

    Posted by yojimbo on 2007 09 27 at 02:16 PM • permalink

  26. That teacher is as bad as the thief! Between them they’ve managed to show the kids there are no reliable adults in their school. An idiot followed by a fool.

    Posted by Retread on 2007 09 27 at 02:34 PM • permalink

  27. #15, Mike: right notion, wrong country: it was Britain, and the PETards broke into a fur farm, releasing several hundred mink (high-end predators, even if they’ve been caged all their lives) into a nearby wood, with predictably disastrous results for all of the birds and smaller wildlife in it. Not to mention for the mink themselves, once the easy kills went away—then they starved, died under car wheels ... with the PETards radiating Smug, as usual.

    Posted by Celaeno on 2007 09 27 at 02:37 PM • permalink

  28. What’s the big deal about a rabbit stole? Ma Paco had one, and it not only kept her warm, but it looked kinda elegant.

    Love them beagles, Old tanker!

    Posted by paco on 2007 09 27 at 02:37 PM • permalink

  29. #24: it’s easier to learn on a PETARD than a bunny anyway

    Though, you have to admit, they ain’t as good eatin’.

    Posted by paco on 2007 09 27 at 02:39 PM • permalink

  30. #19. Texas Bob:

    Yep.  That’s exactly what I thought.  What she is actually teaching those children is:  the end justifies the means.

    The concept of property rights has been so decimated by the viros that people don’t even consider them anymore.  Somebody stole your car?  Well, there are people who believe no one should drive cars.  You want to plow your field?  Can’t.  Some people believe that the puddle that forms in the middle of it every two years makes it a wetland.  And on and on and on.

    What will she tell them when someone releases a human killing agent that wipes out populations?  Some people believe that humans are a blight upon Gaia and must be eliminated.  There was a time when that was such a hyperbolic statement that I’d have laughed at it.  Not now.  I’ve read too many “educated” people who actually believe it.  And if you think about it, trying to outlaw fossil fuels, stopping farm production, etc., is just as deadly to human life (if slower) that releasing a deadly plague upon mankind.

    There was nothing innocuous about that teacher’s “lesson.”

    Posted by saltydog on 2007 09 27 at 02:42 PM • permalink

  31. Perhaps the rabbit was named Jessica?

    Cheers

    Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 09 27 at 02:44 PM • permalink

  32. Not Seattle, Spokane.  It’s at the other end of the state, in the heartland, Bush country. 

    Which makes me wonder if it wasn’t some nitwits associated with the university.

    Posted by JorgeCurioso on 2007 09 27 at 02:44 PM • permalink

  33. #31

    If it were Jessica, I’d have stolen her….

    Posted by SoberHT on 2007 09 27 at 02:59 PM • permalink

  34. Actually, we’ve had problems at times with feral rabbits around here at times.  I think they’ve gotten rid of most of the more troublesome ones, but there are still some problem spots.

    Posted by Vexorg on 2007 09 27 at 03:04 PM • permalink

  35. Here’s the culprit making off with cute little Sugar Bunny!

    Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 09 27 at 03:12 PM • permalink

  36. #29 Though, you have to admit, they ain’t as good eatin’.

    No, and on top of that they’re so easy to hit (PETArds) you usually hit them with the whole pattern and they hold the shot, you’re picking it out for days….....

    Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 09 27 at 03:16 PM • permalink

  37. #28 Thanks.  If you notice in the picture there are bandages on the front legs…just got the dew claws removed and once the stitches come out we’ll find out what kind of rabbit dogs we have!

    Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 09 27 at 03:25 PM • permalink

  38. Frankly, I suspect one of the teachers.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 09 27 at 03:54 PM • permalink

  39. I understand that one tribe of “american” indians would stuff the bacon end of the pig up the white man’s arse and slow roast them.. alive.  They claimed it made human flesh edible.

    Posted by missred on 2007 09 27 at 03:59 PM • permalink

  40. #39 Missred: that sounds more like French cookin’ to me.

    Posted by paco on 2007 09 27 at 04:05 PM • permalink

  41. O/T, but this is a good series of articles on a dangerously self-important fat cat.

    Posted by paco on 2007 09 27 at 04:10 PM • permalink

  42. #41, Paco,

    I read that yesterday.  The man is truly evil.

    Posted by saltydog on 2007 09 27 at 04:17 PM • permalink

  43. Just in case the police need any help, I would suggest they ask the pale skinny kid with lice-infected dreads what his mummy has been up to.

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 09 27 at 04:17 PM • permalink

  44. Ha Ha, Paco.  I actually read it in a book titled, The History of Torture

    Posted by missred on 2007 09 27 at 04:22 PM • permalink

  45. Sugar Bunny is free at last, free at last, thank Gaia Almighty, it’s free at last.

    Posted by CB on 2007 09 27 at 04:26 PM • permalink

  46. Buy a large snake.  Watch PETA try again. Laugh.

    Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2007 09 27 at 04:40 PM • permalink

  47. #42 Salty: There are few things that I find more reprehensible than the ego of a certain kind of rich man who believes that, because he is shrewd enough to make a lot of money, he is necessarily shrewd enough to remake the world. Speculating in currencies is one thing; speculating in the liberty, economic well-being and, perhaps, even the lives of hundreds of millions of people is something else altogether. You’re right: he is a profoundly evil character.

    Posted by paco on 2007 09 27 at 04:57 PM • permalink

  48. What’s up, doc? My patience with scum like this. You just don’t kidnap rabbits belonging to a friggin’ KINDERGARTEN class. There is very little that is worse than grown adults stealing from kindergarteners.

    But Attmay, it’s a kindergarten class for humans—that’s not their department.

    Posted by tim maguire on 2007 09 27 at 04:59 PM • permalink

  49. #24 old tanker,

    terrific dogs! I can see that bottle of “no chew spray” is having the desired effect. ;-D

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 09 27 at 05:24 PM • permalink

  50. Frankly, I suspect one of the teachers.

    My money is on Lori Peters at least knowing who took the rabbit.  She seems less than heartbroken that Sugar Bunny is gone.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 09 27 at 05:50 PM • permalink

  51. Teachers gathered the children in a circle Monday to remember Sugar Bunny, some by drawing pictures and others by writing songs.

    “Kids, when someone steals something near and dear to you, express your sadness by singing and drawing pictures.  It’ll entertain the thieves when they come back to rip you off again once they’ve realized you’re an easy mark.” 

    “We talked about how some people have different ideas about animals,” [teacher Lori Peters said]. “Some people don’t think they should be in cages.”

    Including you, Miss Lori?  Methinks you may know more about this than you’re letting on - that reaction is pretty much what I’d expect from some bleeding-heart dipwad who secretly admires the “strength” and “conviction” of the PETArds.

    Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 09 27 at 05:50 PM • permalink

  52. #44 Missread, I used to have that book, too. A most educational read, and I’ve retained a remarkable amount of it.

    Comes in handy at times for things to think of when people piss me off.

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 09 27 at 05:51 PM • permalink

  53. Once again, Blue State Sil, great minds think alike!  You, me, and Andrea.  Wotta team!

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 09 27 at 05:52 PM • permalink

  54. OF course, while I learned lots of interesting ways to make people talk, I didn’t learn how to preview or spell.

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 09 27 at 05:53 PM • permalink

  55. And Rebecca as well…...can’t forget her, now, can I?

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 09 27 at 06:05 PM • permalink

  56. lol nic, it was my roomates book.. ages ago.. another lifetime (bc - before child)
    i think that was the one bit i retained!

    Posted by missred on 2007 09 27 at 06:18 PM • permalink

  57. #55 The_Real_JeffS

    Even more than you realize - I was just about to post the same thing! 

    Somehow I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Miss Lori also goes by MoonFlowerSun (the name revealed to her by the Goddess Gaia while she was in a pot-induced haze) and lives in a power-free, meat-free, animal-products-free, cleaning-products-free lean-to, where she eats a macrobiotic diet of raw foods (vegan, of course), worships a small icon of Algore, and plots to steal more classroom pets.

    Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 09 27 at 06:24 PM • permalink

  58. I reckon Sugar ended up “Fatal Attraction” style in Ms Peters pot.

    Posted by CB on 2007 09 27 at 06:55 PM • permalink

  59. Individual companion animals such as this which are assumed released to the wild, most likely resulting in their deaths, is likely viewed by these people as collateral damage for their cause, however, the sum result is PETAcide of companion animals - criminal zealots.

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 09 27 at 07:45 PM • permalink

  60. TRJ, etal for whom I have the greatest respect, believe that the teacher dunnit, I suggest someone take a look at her lesson plan for that day.  If she wrote: “Crisis counselling re bunny; write songs, draw pictures, impose PETA/moral equivocation indoctrination,” then we’ve got her.

    Posted by saltydog on 2007 09 27 at 07:58 PM • permalink

  61. #38
    Agreed. The PETArd prolly used skool stationery for the note - a criminal mastermind, not.

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 09 27 at 08:03 PM • permalink

  62. #49 Pogria

    How observant!!!  The bandages lasted 10 minutes with the spray as opposed to 5 minutes without!!!

    Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 09 27 at 08:17 PM • permalink

  63. PETArds are not known for their wattage.

    Posted by kae on 2007 09 27 at 08:26 PM • permalink

  64. I was going to suggest that this bloke might be involved

    But he’s still in the bin

    Posted by Pickles on 2007 09 27 at 08:59 PM • permalink

  65. #62 Hi Old Tanker,

    I have three dogs of my own. Been through the bucket on the head and bandaged feet many times.

    Here’s something for all the dog owners out there. Especially Right Wing dog owners.

    I believe it may speak for most people on this blog also.

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 09 27 at 10:00 PM • permalink

  66. Mrs Beeton for Activists (Peta ed.)

    First, steal your rabbit…

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 09 27 at 10:16 PM • permalink

  67. Somebody stoled him,” 5-year-old Zion told The Spokesman-Review, which gave only the first names of him and other children in a report on the heist. “I’m sad.”

    This is obviously a Zionist conspiracy

    Posted by gelfen on 2007 09 27 at 10:39 PM • permalink

  68. 64. I really really hope he isnt the teacher….

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 09 28 at 01:18 AM • permalink

  69. Very cute beagles. Our dogs would also find the bunny a tasty snack (though they’d try to bring him inside first). And pardon the French, but this is just fucked up. What kind of asshat would steal a kids’ bunny from a pre-school?

    Posted by rightwingprof on 2007 09 28 at 04:45 AM • permalink

  70. #69; The same ones who tell little Timmy that he and his brothers and sisters will die if Mommy drives him to school in the Suburban.

    Posted by dean martin on 2007 09 28 at 07:17 AM • permalink

  71. #65 Pogria

    Words to live by!!!

    Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 09 28 at 09:58 AM • permalink

  72. I’ve been out fishing so I missed this thread when Tim posted it.

    You should see how we got bunnies when we were younger, Tim. PETA would be horrified. A net over the warren, a good ferret down the main burrow and we had bunny casserole for the next three Tuesday night dinners (Tuesday was always rabbit night at our house, an economical way to feed 11 kids and the old folks).

    Not kidding, this was 1960s-70s. We caught the rabbits in a bush area in almost the centre of a large city. We all knew how to dress them, not in pink booties and a cute jacket and a pretty bonnet.

    Being a few streets away from our harbour we also set fish and crab traps, and every Xmas and Easter dad knocked the heads off a couple of backyard chooks with a tomahawk. My older brothers and I used to see it as sport (sorry again PETA) as they flapped around the yard. Personally I hated chooks because of the way they pecked when I had to give them feed or collect the eggs, but I hated more the smell of wet feathers when I had to pluck (not the other word) the dead ‘uns.

    Farm slaughtered beef is good to eat, so is farm slaughtered lamb. Goats are also good, also kangaroos and wallabies and other wild Australian stuff except feral pigs.

    I still haven’t worked out how “good” meat is distinguishable from “bad” meat, other than bad meat has worms.

    PETA must have the secret: no meat at all.

    Posted by mareeS on 2007 09 28 at 10:37 AM • permalink

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