6 Blindfold Bunny

No matter what the fur fetish people tell you, it IS possible to have too much hair!

People who breed animals for a specific use, have a goal, the animal must be good at it.

Sickly chickens don't lay an egg per day. Sickly beef cattle don't beef up. Dull brained or emotional unstable dogs don't make good police dogs.

Rabbits are usefully bred for several reasons, like:

1. Meat: domestic rabbits yield meat, and yes it is delicious. Our ancestors probably got a lot of their protein from rabbits, so we are geared to like it's flavor. And wild rabbits have lot of babies, something has to keep their numbers down, coyotes, foxes, owls, or hunters.

2. Laboratory creatures. Rabbits suffer a lot in experiments. A quick death from a fox, coyote or hunter would be kinder.

3. Pelt. That's hides. The rabbit is killed and the fur, still with the skin, is cured.

4. Angora yarn, like from this Angora rabbit - like from the longer threada from Angora goats.

The rabbit in the photo above looks like an Angora show rabbit. If they actually clip the fur and make it into something, it could be considered usefully bred.

Angora rabbit's are usually not made into pelts, their hair is long enough that it was combed out and twisted into yarn. But although Angora rabbits are often bred for shows, when was the last time you had an Angora rabbit hair sweater?

I had one once way back after high school, it was so warm and soft. No rabbit dies or is harmed for their hair. It is only PELTED rabbits that are killed. Angora rabbits hair is allowed to grow and then cut off just like having your own hair cut. But it would be nice if the rabbit's bangs were clipped so he could see.