Friday, March 25, 2016

Easter Bunny Time

Greetings. This is The Daily Bone and I'm your doggie reporter Chester  L. W. Spaniel. 


It's that time of year again. By this I mean the annual arrival of the Easter Bunny. I get more confused about this every year. I know Easter has something to do with religion. As I've said before, human religions are something our doggie minds cannot fully comprehend. But I know enough to say that usually religions are based on the belief that there is a greater power in charge of things who wants all the humans to be kind to each other and have a happy and peaceful life. How blowing other random humans up with bombs fits into this deal I'll never understand. I'll just stop here on that subject before I get into trouble. 


I did a bit of research and found out that the Easter bunny concept began a long time ago. It just happens that Easter coincides with spring, which is the time birdies make their nests and lay eggs. Humans would go out into the woods and notice that bunnies often hid in the same bushes that the birdies nested in; and so someone had the bright idea to tell their children the bunny hid the eggs in there for them to find and eat. This somehow evolved into a holiday that includes bunnies, boiled eggs, chocolate, baskets, artificial plastic grass in various colors, squeaky toys, jelly beans, marshmallow peeps, TV commercials and cartoons, leg of lamb with mint jelly or ham with scalloped potatoes for supper, Charlton Heston movies, bright colored clothing, spring flowers, baby chicks and ducklings, with religion tucked in there somewhere. Again, my doggie mind is boggled when it comes to human symbolism. 


I see bunnies every so often in and around my yard. I've caught a few of them. They're always small, with light brown fur, and they can run very fast. Unlike squirrels, they cannot scamper up the nearest tree, and end up running around and around our yard several times and are great fun to chase! Our Miss Ginger was a superb bunny chaser! They can also scream really loudly, which surprised the heck out of my esteemed colleague Joseph (Joey dog) Spaniel one night when I caught one. I could never figure out why they come into our yard in the first place. It's surrounded by a fence, and what small gaps exist ghostwriter and Dad have blocked with big rocks or more fences. The whole yard is plainly marked with twenty years of doggie pee too! But I digress. 

Here's an ad in which the bunny somehow makes chicken noises. It leaves me totally confused!


These days the humans have decided that their little children should be able to visit the Easter bunny at the local mall just like that fat guy at Christmas. This bunny also often presides over parties and egg rolling contests. They are often surprised when their children are terrified of this gigantic thing with huge stand-up ears, enormous eyes, and weirdo smile. That would scare the crap out of me, that's for sure! 


YIPES!!!!!!!!!!

To combat this fear, the humans thought up an ingenious plan: make bunnies out of chocolate. The children can then eat the Easter bunny and vanquish their fear. At least that's what I think. Ghostwriter found a video of her favorite candy store, Stevers,  located in Rochester NY. Watch carefully and you'll see some chocolate bunnies. 



We'll take a quick break here for Joey dog's annual warning about doggies and chocolate. 


Hello ladies and gentlemen. I'd like to take this time to remind you that chocolate, while delicious and safe for humans to eat, is a DEADLY POISON to doggies because it contains a chemical called theobromine. Please make sure to keep all chocolate Easter candy away from your doggie. Instruct your children at a young age to never give chocolate to a doggie. If your doggie accidentally ingests some chocolate, pour one ounce of hydrogen peroxide down the doggie's throat. This will make him or her throw up. Then proceed to your nearest veterinary hospital as quickly as possible. 


Well, I hope I have not left you as confused as I am about this human holiday. However you celebrate  Easter, we at The Daily Bone hope you have a wonderful time filled with peace and joy with your friends and family. And don't forget: keep that chocolate away from your doggies! You can give him or her a marshmallow peep, or some jelly beans though. Oh and we'd be glad to eat up all of those hard boiled eggs. Just saying.



17 comments:

  1. Hey Guys!
    Wow, I agree that Easter is a little confusing! Butt, I have to bark that I was pretty interested in that leg of lamb part. BOL. My mom is nutty over the chocolate.
    Grr and Woof,
    Sarge, Party Animal

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    1. We haven't had leg of lamb in a long time. It's gotten so expensive: $40 for one roast!!!! But it's one of our favorite things. Ghostwriter sprinkles rosemary mixed with flour and salt over it and puts it on a bed of onions and then roasts it slowly. It makes a wonderful gravy and mint jelly is the perfect thing to put on it. We save the bone to make soup with vegetables and barley. Delicious!

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    2. We haven't had leg of lamb in a long time. It's gotten so expensive: $40 for one roast!!!! But it's one of our favorite things. Ghostwriter sprinkles rosemary mixed with flour and salt over it and puts it on a bed of onions and then roasts it slowly. It makes a wonderful gravy and mint jelly is the perfect thing to put on it. We save the bone to make soup with vegetables and barley. Delicious!

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  2. Oh no, now our mom is thinking about those Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Easter Eggs!

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  3. Thanks for the history behind the Easter Bunny - very interesting:) We see lots of boxes of chocolate bunnies on the counter here, so that has to mean the little bipeds will be here for Easter. That's good news to us. They can have the bunnies but we hope it means either turkey or ham for Easter dinner with tidbits for us:)

    Woos - Ciara and Lightning

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  4. it is odd - it is not as if bunny even lay eggs - why don't we have an Easter Chicken - it would make more sense and then back home in Australia - they have the Eater Bilby!

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  5. Thanks for the tip about hydrogen peroxide, that is good to know in case we need it
    happy Easter
    Mr Bailey, Hazel & Mabel

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    1. I, Joey dog, have had personal experience with the H2O2 barf inducer when several years ago I stole a big piece of gourmet dark chocolate. I survived because of it and now I'm 14 years old!

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    2. I, Joey dog, have had personal experience with the H2O2 barf inducer when several years ago I stole a big piece of gourmet dark chocolate. I survived because of it and now I'm 14 years old!

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  6. Eons ago, growlmy had to use that hydrogen peroxide method on one of her kitties...and yup, it had the desired effect.

    Easter bunnies...I like to chase them, but the ones I do chase nevfur have any eggs in baskets. And the screams they make are bloodcurdling indeed...horrible.

    Growlmy thinks Easter is even more 'messed up' and bizarre than Christmas!
    And on that tone, I wish you a Happy Easter!

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  7. Do we have to be good cause the Easter bunny is coming?
    Lily & Edward

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  8. Mom didn't buy any Easter candy this year so we're safe but we will be begging for some manicotti and some of Nonna's rice pie. yummmmm

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  9. We never figured out the relationship between bunnies, eggs and chocolate so thank you for your info. We know our not-so-little human brudder will get special chocolates soon but we have to stay away from them!

    Happy Easter!
    Momo & Pinot

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  10. Dear Chester,

    I too have always been confused about this. First of all, we have bunnies too, and Ojo even catches and snacks on them. (Oops.) But never, not once, have we seen one with an egg. Meanwhile our Chickens make the eggs, but they are not chocolate. In fact they are very yummy and very good for Dogs to eat.

    I think it has something to do with that big scary Easter Bunny you showed a picture of. It's clearly a bad mutation of nature, and perhaps that is why it lays eggs, and why the eggs have become chocolate-that-dogs-cannot-eat instead of normal eggs that are yummy-dogs-can-eat.

    The Easter Bunny is clearly a freak of nature. I hope it does not come to my house!

    Licks,
    Cobi

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  11. Thanks for the Easter history lesson. We sure know (well it is really just our pawrents) how great Stever's Candy is. It's a real Rochester, NY treasure.

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  12. CRIKEY Chester and Joey ... Your Easter history lesson sure got me confused. Mainly the bit about Easter coinciding with SPRING!! Not here it doesn't! Does that mean we shouldn't have eggs at Easter??? I Never get eggs at Easter anyway? I hope I get some icecream instead.

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