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Bunny’s success is an echo of the past

by Chris Hudson
9/ 7/2008

IT’S a bunny old world.

Little Grace Cooper has hopped onto the same hobby that her aunty had when she was just a little girl to ear-ie effect.

The seven-year-old Gorsey Bank School pupil’s sable rex, BB, won Best Pet Rabbit for the second time at the Cheshire Show, just like aunty Liz Scott’s carrot munchers did 30 years ago.

Mum-of-two Liz, a carer of Lindfield, Wilmslow, won trophies galore at the Lancashire, Blackburn and Didsbury shows when she was a breeder at the same age Grace is now.

She said: "It’s great that Grace likes rabbits just like me. Her love of bunnies has made me want to get back into breeding, in 1963 I had 12 orange and faun rabbits. We have started looking for the breeds I used to have to get back into keeping them."

BB won first prize and a rosette for Best Pet Rabbit in 2006, but Grace, who also has a hamster called Hammy, wasn’t confident that she would emulate her county-wide feat this year.

She said: "We didn’t think we were going to win because BB had a sore pad. We were shocked when we found she’d got Girls Best Pet Rabbit."

Since then Grace has been taken to the hearts of her fellow Gorsey Bank pupils who hugged her after her classroom show and tell with BB and the new found rosettes.

Aunty and niece won’t be splitting hares over their shared love of the big-eared warren dwellers and will hopefully be getting Watership Down to the next Cheshire Show with hutches of bunnies.