Last weekend we attended a rabbit show in Colorado. Our friends who wonder about our rabbit hobby always ask: “Why do you raise rabbits?” The answer, “we attend rabbit shows,” always seems to leave them a bit perplexed. And yet, anyone in the rabbit world who hears the phrase “we were at a rabbit show” immediately understands.

Rabbit shows are where “rabbit people” gather together.

We get up early on a Saturday morning and load the car with our folding chairs, ice chests, and grooming tables along with all the rabbit paraphernalia anyone could imagine. We will have rabbit tee-shirts, rabbit jackets, rabbit earrings, rabbit license plates, and rabbit coffee mugs. There will even be, at times, people wearing rabbit ears or rabbit slippers. We have travel cages, grooming brushes, toe-clippers, tattoo kits, aprons, wagons and carts, and an endless supply of baby wipes. We carry hay, water, feed, litter, and treats. [...]