Easter Bunny Dysfunction

We follow the Easter Bunny origin from ancient fertility themes to the American Easter basket tradition.  And why are we putting our kids on a stranger’s lap in a creepy bunny suit? When did we normalize that? We unpack mall bunny anxiety, Easter holiday myths, and the stuff nobody says out loud. Listen, then drop your scariest Easter Bunny photo story?

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:07

Welcome to the Ditchbox and Junkies podcast.

SPEAKER_01 0:10

We may not have seen it all, but we've seen enough. And now here are your hosts, Chrissy and Harry.

KERRY 0:21

Hello, junkies. I'm Carrie.

SPEAKER_05 0:25

And I'm Chrissy with Carrie.

KERRY 0:28

And I'm with Chrissy.

SPEAKER_05 0:31

Yeah. How are we explaining these psychotic dolls that we have with us?

KERRY 0:36

I don't know what episode was. We've talked about them before. Somewhere back in season one, Chrissy found these dolls. And they are the Carrie doll, which Chrissy has with her with the blonde hair and the green outfit. And it's spelled actually how I spell my name, K-E-R-R-Y. And then this is Carrie or Chrissy or Carrie's friend Chrissy. And so we thought it would be great to get these dolls. So I found them on eBay, and we just finally decided to make their debut. So when we can't be together in person, we have dolls.

SPEAKER_05 1:13

Yes, we do. Yeah, Chrissy is not spelled the way I spell it, which is fine. It's I think it's C-R-I-S-S-Y. Yeah, there's two F's instead of one. But I think she was a pretty popular doll in the late 60s, early 70s, and she had a friend Carrie. She had other friends too. I think it was a whole thing. Yeah. But I couldn't believe when I saw when I was looking up this doll that it had a the doll had a friend, and the friend was Carrie. And the Carrie doll is blonde and blue-eyed. So it just was meant to be.

KERRY 1:46

And what's funny is I actually had the Carrie doll growing up because I think that was such a unique thing that something actually had my name spelled right. But what's interesting about them is their hair grows. So like they have this little thing that you can twist. Excuse me, why violate? She has that too. Yeah. You'd you scroll here. I'll cover the dupa, but it's still worse. Yeah, yeah. So you do that, and then you can pull the hair to make it grow somehow. Oh no, push you push a butt. I don't know, but in any case, so they could have short hair or long hair.

SPEAKER_05 2:25

So yes, beautiful.

KERRY 2:27

And yes, they are lovely. And Carrie located these. Yes, the originals.

SPEAKER_05 2:32

These are not represent replicas. These are originals.

KERRY 2:36

In 1971, 72. So I think the carry doll that I had growing up, I think my sister has it. My my sister that lives over in Pennsylvania. I think she actually has my original Carrie doll. But so anyways, nice. So you will see them in our home studios.

SPEAKER_05 2:56

And she's much more fun to look at.

KERRY 2:58

Anyway, so um I may have actually gotten my carry doll as an Easter gift in my Easter basket. Who knows? Back in the day.

Where The Easter Bunny Comes From

SPEAKER_05 3:08

Wow, that's a pretty nice score for Easter. Because I don't even remember getting a doll at Easter, always a stuffed animal, and then candy. Yeah. Coloring book-ups. But of course, then when I had kids, everything changed. You had to go all out. Yep. Yep. That's how it is. But that's what we do. Yeah. So what are we going to talk about? I I came up with this idea because I know we crapped all over Santa Claus at Christmas and learned a whole bunch of new things about Santa. Yeah. So now we're going to talk about the dysfunction of the Easter bunny, his or her origin, and just all the unfortunate mess of the Easter bunny in general. Let's do it. Or what?

KERRY 3:54

Let's do three days away from Easter?

SPEAKER_05 3:59

Yeah. It's here already. I know. So again, it's not it's early this year, but not terribly early.

KERRY 4:06

Yeah, at least sometimes it comes at the end of March, and that's just a bummer.

SPEAKER_02 4:10

I hate when it's that early. What? So I don't mean to interrupt, but do you want to put a disclaimer on this? Just like you did with the Santa episode that you may not if you have children present.

SPEAKER_05 4:19

Yeah, you do not want so they probably don't want them to listen to this.

KERRY 4:25

In general, but mommy or daddy listen to without the children present. If Crimson goes down the road that she went down at Christmas time, then yeah, this is uh put your ear pods and your headphones on, put the kids, I don't know, up in front of the chair.

SPEAKER_02 4:43

I just wanted to I wanted to put that in there before you guys got going in case.

KERRY 4:47

Good job, DJ.

SPEAKER_02 4:48

Because I've seen some of her I saw some of her notes.

SPEAKER_05 4:51

Yeah. Okay. Uh so how and again, I need I'm gonna need to buy readers, I think, because this is just really bad. But uh, so let's talk about the origin first. Yeah, we're gonna start. So are we talking about the Easter bunny?

KERRY 5:10

That's the focus, not necessarily Easter.

SPEAKER_05 5:12

Yeah, this is not the bunny. No, okay. This is the Easter bunny, not Easter. Okay, and just like with the Christmas idea, a lot of it is based in ancient pagan roots. It's then generally Christianity took some of these and adopted it for their celebration. But so it says rabbits and hares were associated with the ancient pagan festival of oh great. Nick, you got this printout. Say these words for me. Outside of the fact that I can't see them, then I have to try and read this stuff. It's got the those little dots over the E. Or no, it's a line. It's a line over the E. What does that mean?

SPEAKER_02 5:58

Which way is the line go?

SPEAKER_05 6:00

It's flat. It's like a hyphen over the E.

SPEAKER_02 6:04

Oh.

SPEAKER_05 6:04

It's not Ulots or whatever those dots are called. What is this?

SPEAKER_02 6:09

Do I have this?

SPEAKER_05 6:10

Yes, I gave you a printout.

SPEAKER_02 6:11

Is it on the it's not on your notes, it's on the email?

SPEAKER_05 6:15

It's actually what I printed out from the notes that I found from AI. And by the way, there's not this is no author. I do give credit when I do use somebody's lists or something like that. But this is just somehow generated. I typed in dysfunction bunny and dysfunction my computer with oh dysfunction Easter Bunny.

KERRY 6:34

Tomara, the Festival of Ostar. Tomorrow. I had to switch screens here to look at it. So if my eyes went weird for a minute, because Oh, it does in parentheses tell you how to say it.

SPEAKER_05 6:45

Okay. Yeah. Ha ha ha. Very funny. Okay, yeah. I'm playing as a bat. It's an Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring and fertility due to their rapid productions. Wonderful. Right there. I'm already having a problem. Okay, go. We're celebrating rapid reproduction. I guess that's why rabbits the rabbit test. Does anybody still remember that poll remark? If they asked if he had a rabbit test. Oh, I never heard just a pregnancy test. Yeah. Yeah. And they reproduce like rabbits. That's another one you always heard. Okay.

KERRY 7:20

Which is so that's where that's from. So when I was young, I had a rabbit, and when it passed away, my mom said, Whatever other, whatever breed of rabbit you want to get, I will get you. Because I was in 4-H and things like that. I went through the little rabbit breed book and I found this breed of rabbit that I was like, oh my gosh, this is what I want. And it's called the Polish rabbit. That's the name of the breed. They're very difficult to obtain. Now, I don't know if things have changed in the last 40 years, but part of the reason why they were very difficult to get and hard to find was because they did not breed like rabbits. So that was always the funny thing that people would say, oh, it breeds like rabbits. And I'm like, not my Polish rabbits, because that ain't happening.

SPEAKER_05 8:07

No. So anyways, go ahead. Well, there you go. Not all of the different breeds are created equal.

SPEAKER_00 8:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 8:16

And then we have, and this he said this one real easy. German folklore. And I even took German. I took a quarter of it at the university.

SPEAKER_02 8:28

It looks like Osterhaus.

SPEAKER_05 8:30

Right, probably. That's the concept of an egg laying here. Comes from German folklore, specifically the Osterhaus or Osterhaus. Oh boy. And then Catholic education. Does anybody remember we took phonics?

KERRY 8:57

Tom Phonics.

SPEAKER_05 8:58

Did I even teach phonics? Okay, smart ass. We're fine. But I always spelled everything the way it sounded, but in the English language, that only gets you so far. This is true. You can't spell everything the way it sounds. Okay, fine. So what does this say here? So I need to get it from your classes. This is really bad. Okay.

KERRY 9:23

I do like you would if we were on video. You just put it right up here.

SPEAKER_05 9:27

I feel so self-conscious. I am putting it right up there. All right, fine.

KERRY 9:32

There you go.

SPEAKER_05 9:32

The look on the uh the ostrich house tradition is this tradition. Children would create nests, sometimes using bonnets or hats. And if they were well behaved, the hair would lay colorful eggs in it. In your hat? Is that where shit go shit in your hat comes from? Did you hear anybody saying that? Tell you go shit in your hat. Is that a saying?

SPEAKER_01 9:58

I think you're making some sense.

KERRY 10:03

I swear, I think somebody, that's an old say. Go shit in your hat. I'm gonna not go. What are we Gemini that?

SPEAKER_05 10:13

Why can't we still say Google? I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 10:17

You could say Google.

SPEAKER_05 10:18

Okay. These by the way, everybody, if you can't follow along, and hopefully your children are not listening. Well, then this is just about the origin, but still probably should listen. Is did you find it? Yeah, I did. Is go shit in your head to say shit in your head?

KERRY 10:33

See? A World War II era insult to someone who expects something unreasonable from you. A sarcastic reply.

SPEAKER_05 10:44

I think we need to bring this back. Everybody go out there and tell everybody go shit in your hat.

KERRY 10:53

We'll put it on nobody's wearing it. You heard it. You heard it again on Dysfunction Dread Keys Podcast.

SPEAKER_05 11:01

First, yes, yes. Okay, so now we get all that out of the way if you've been following at all. Then we have the arrival in America. So of course it comes with the immigrants that come over. German immigrants brought this tradition to oh Pennsylvania, a neighbor over here, although not yours anymore, but mine still. Who's your neighbors? I don't even know geographically who's next to you. Where are you at? Nevada.

KERRY 11:28

Nevada, Arizona, Colorado. There are surrounding states.

SPEAKER_04 11:37

Oh, okay. Show off. Yeah. Okay, those are pretty good, I guess. I'm still stuck over here next to PA.

SPEAKER_05 11:44

Um, that was in the 1700s, which later spread throughout the United States, evolving into the modern Easter basket tradition. Well, where the hell's the Easter Bunny at in all this?

KERRY 11:57

The Easter bunny was that monster hawks thing that was laying colorful egg.

Easter Baskets And Warm Egg Memories

SPEAKER_05 12:05

I didn't read the first paragraph. The Easter Bunny tradition, often viewed as a secular commercial figure, has its origins. It's an ancient European fertility customs rather than biblical scripture. There you go.

KERRY 12:18

Hey, speaking of Easter basket, I have another show and tell today. Oh, yeah, let's see. Chris, would you help me talked about it briefly and bring in the show and tell?

SPEAKER_05 12:33

We're having way too much fun at our age.

KERRY 12:37

We're playing with our dogs. This is my okay, Chrissy, go sit down. All right. This is my East basket that I have had my entire life that I remember. Probably well at least five years old that I remember back. But this used to be green. This stripe here used to be green, but over years it's faded. But yeah, this is my Easter basket from childhood.

SPEAKER_05 13:07

There it is. Well, you can get a lot of uh contraband in there. So I hope your parents were always good about filling it up for you.

KERRY 13:14

They actually, that was one time they were pretty good. Hi, Chrissy. Welcome back. They were pretty good about that. Yeah. It's Easter with a lot of candy. But there were still some of those hard-boiled eggs that they threw in there for color, but I never ate them.

SPEAKER_05 13:30

You know-boiled eggs.

KERRY 13:32

Oh, I like hard-boiled eggs, but there was something from a very young age that I had warm eggs. So you know, because the eggs were in the basket, and who okay, first of all, do you hide your basket? No. That's effort.

SPEAKER_05 13:48

Wait, but you know how people hide for my kids? No, I until I did not know this was a thing.

KERRY 13:55

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_05 13:56

I heard about hiding Easter eggs, but never the whole basket.

KERRY 14:02

Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 14:04

So the whole that takes too much energy. My kids are too old now.

KERRY 14:07

This whole basket would be full of of candy and yummies and maybe an occasional toy. If it was a toy, it was probably gonna be something like play-doh or something small. But that whole basket was hidden. And when you got up on Easter morning, you had to go find your basket. And you never know where that Easter buddy was gonna hide it. So to this day, Farm Boy Jim still has to find the Easter basket. I do not let him escape that tradition. He has to find it. He acts like he doesn't like it, but he really does. If I don't hide it, he'll be upset.

SPEAKER_05 14:42

Was this in the house, or what could it be outside?

KERRY 14:46

Usually or was it weather permitting? Yeah, usually it was inside, but there were occasional times it would have been found maybe in the barn, maybe in the rabbit hutch of the rabbit cage outside.

SPEAKER_05 15:05

Yeah. Were you under the impression that the rabbits that you had somehow were involved in uh delivering this stuff?

KERRY 15:12

No, I never made those correlations. No. Uh no. But yeah, but this was sometimes a challenge. You would think this would be easy to find because it's big, but it was actually sometimes hard to find. You never knew. Of course it's a challenge. It's one thing.

SPEAKER_05 15:30

At least, even though eggs are smaller, there's several of them. You have a your chances are better at the eggs than one basket. Yeah. Just because it's the size of it is is appropriate large and you think you could see it somewhere, but yeah, no. That again, I never grew up with an Easter egg hunt. Well, nothing. No, I did the Easter egg hunt for my kids, and it was always in the house. I was not gonna go outside and dump eggs somewhere, but I would hide eggs in the house. Then you wouldn't go and eat those eggs afterwards, would you? No, because they were always the plastic ones with candy inside. Okay, okay, okay. Yeah, see, in this you I'm gonna sit there and spend all that time coloring those eggs. I'm already obsessive about making those look good. I'm not gonna let those like just be laying around somewhere.

KERRY 16:19

So, yeah, so this basket would have the candy, and then it would have some of the colored Easter eggs that we did the night before. So, my point being that you didn't know when the Easter bunny came. So, you didn't know how long the eggs were out of the refrigerator and in the basket before you even started looking. And then if you couldn't find the basket, then you know, then it was even harder because and it would take longer. And of course, you did this sometimes. It would you had to go to church. So if you didn't find your Easter basket and it was time to go to church, you had to go to church, so you would pick up on the hunt afterwards. So those things could have been 48 hours out of the fridge, and yeah, my time I'm imagining you guys maybe had some stomach aches. Oh, I didn't that's why I didn't eat them. Maybe my mom didn't purposely let us eat them. I don't know, but I didn't eat them because they were warm eggs.

SPEAKER_05 17:24

So oh god, yeah. A hard-boiled egg has to be cold to be really enjoyed, in my opinion. Yes. So, anyways, I'm sorry.

KERRY 17:32

I didn't we're working all over the board today. A little squirrely.

SPEAKER_05 17:38

But that's okay. Well, we've got uh uh pressures on with the Carrie and Chrissy doll here. Yeah, I don't think that our parents I don't know, I don't want to talk out of term, but they didn't seem to be as they didn't hold it as important to maintain and keep the whole thing going with the Easter bunny as they were with Sienna.

KERRY 18:01

Yes, this is true.

SPEAKER_05 18:04

And I couldn't even tell you when I just when I still believed, I had to be pretty small, which is funny because you figure if you lose faith in believing in one, you would you would not lose. But maybe the bunny wasn't as real. Question, you had to really suspend disbelief to believe in the Easter bike. The guy dressed up in a red suit was more fe it could be happening, exactly possible.

KERRY 18:29

Big human-sized bunny with the paper merché head and weird facing thing that yeah, it's not real.

SPEAKER_02 18:40

What was that movie with Jimmy Stewart, Harvey with the big bunny?

SPEAKER_05 18:43

He was the only one that ever saw it. Oh, but then at the end, I think maybe you did finally get to see the how did you remember that movie? I was about to go to the Monty Python movie. Oh, you probably want to quit believing in the Easter bunny when you watch that movie because that rabbit totally destroyed everybody.

KERRY 19:03

That is oh I never saw that movie in the early mid-20s.

SPEAKER_04 19:10

Oh gosh, it's hilarious. I know it is.

SPEAKER_05 19:13

Anyhow, okay, so we now we know we're in the it came to America and the eggs with the bunny bringing eggs. It's a symbol of new life. Yeah. And that um merged with the Christian celebration of Jesus Christ's resurrection, blending Oh god, here we go. Despirate, the spirit, what the hell's that already?

SPEAKER_02 19:41

Despirate, pagan and religious traditions. That's the whole that's the dysfunction and or the disconnect about the rabbit. And where you're mixing the pagan and the that's the whole disconnect. Or the dysfunction.

SPEAKER_05 19:55

I need to have a linguist in the studio with me for all of this stuff. Although Nick is doing a great job, Dolphins.

SPEAKER_02 20:04

You should be doing the best. You took English. You you had you're an English major and you actually took linguistics in college. You shouldn't be the best at that. And you should be blowing Chrissy or Carrie and I away with these pronunciations.

Stop Buying Live Rabbits

SPEAKER_05 20:17

I actually got through that class. Everybody was terrified. You had to take linguistics, and there was always this nightmare. Everybody who took it already told you're never gonna get through it the first time. Expect to take it again, and it was required. And they said, Nobody ever gets through it the first time. It's very rare because the teacher was really difficult. And so I took it and they said, if you're gonna take it as credit, no credit. Because if you get a bad grade in it, you'll still be able to use the credit, no credit as long as you take it. I took it and I was so stressed out about it, but I went, the guy offered all this extra credit, and I did every bit of it. And I was so happy I didn't have to take it again. I got through it the first time. So that looks like that's where we are. Yeah. Thank you, Youngstown State. Well, oh, reimagining the symbolism. Okay, so we'll wrap this one up and then we'll move on to more dysfunction with the Easter bunny. While the rabbit represents fertility and the pagan spring festival, the egg was adopted by early Christians to represent the resurrection and the empty tomb. Right. So there you go. So these are all things you can think about while you're celebrating in a few days. And now this one's really hard, but it came up, so I'm gonna touch on it. This is more dysfunction with these three. That one actually wasn't that dysfunctional. It was just more about the origin. Yeah. But this is gonna be unfortunate. Okay. Probably people are gonna be offended, maybe. I don't know. So The dysfunction of the Easter bunny refers to the severe, oh my god, negative impact of purchasing live rabbits. Yes.

KERRY 22:12

And I and this is I have in my years of working in animal control, all of this stuff that was come up is I've witnessed, okay. People buy, oh, we'll go get a cute little bunny for Easter for our child. Bad decision. Don't do it. Go get a stuffy. Go get a chocolate candy bunny. Please don't buy a real bunny. Oh, yeah. Chrissy's got show and tell now. I brought show and tell. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 22:48

I'm going through kids' toys, getting rid of toys.

KERRY 22:51

And I thought, oh, I'll just bring out old little. He's cute. He it looks a little bit like the bunny from oh, that's cute.

SPEAKER_05 23:00

Purple. Yeah. And these I would almost say this is just as cruel buying all these stuffed animals. Because eventually you're gonna have to get rid of these, which just they got these cute faces. Why would you want to get rid of that?

SPEAKER_02 23:16

So is it still is it still animal crueltine and abandonment if you get rid of the stuffed animals?

SPEAKER_05 23:23

I don't know. I didn't it make it does, it bothers me. This is one of those damn beanie baby things that they said were gonna be worth money. Bullshit. And then I got a little ducky. Don't forget about the duckies. There's no mention of dysfunction with ducks at Easter.

KERRY 23:39

Yeah, but he's cute. Show up the cute one. This is my favorite.

SPEAKER_05 23:42

Yeah, the favorite one. Yeah, this one has a hat. It's very appropriate. He's proper. The cute. She's been sitting weird in the box, though. She's lopsided a little bit. Okay. Enough of that. All right. So seriously, though. This whole thing of buying real rammets. I guess it's like at Christmas, sometimes people go and adopt and puppies bring home pets.

KERRY 24:06

Yeah. Don't do it. Pets, live animals are not to be given as holiday gifts or impulse gifts. Like they just you need to put thought behind it, people. But the bunnies, especially, they're so fragile. And people think that bunnies are easy, like they're low maintenance, that oh, it's easy, it's just a little bunny. They're gonna be easy to take care of, wrong and wrong. They require a very special diet. And just because you see the wild bunnies outside hopping around, enjoying life, eating whatever, that's not what it's like for domestic bunnies. So they need a special diet, they need proper exercise, and they're very fearful animals. They're prey animals. Their entire life is about what's gonna kill me, chase me, eat me, go after me, or potentially like my life is gonna end if I let something near me. Little kids, which you know, I understand you can teach your children how to be good around animals, but do we have to test that theory? So it's like rabbits still they get scared, they panic, they run, and they just they're just in fear of their life, and they either smack into a wall or smack into their cage, break their neck, or their adrenaline spikes and that kills. I know this is how it is. It's trip, people truth talking truth here. And then you are thank you. Yeah, sorry, you hit a nerve with this one. Then what happens is that people do buy the bunny and it happens to live. People get rid of them after you, oh, they lose interest, or oh, it's summer. Okay, we're buying this little cute little bunny in in the early spring when you're still stuck indoors. Then summer hits, and you want kids want to go outside, they forget about the rabbit. Parents want to go on vacation. Oh, who's gonna take care of the rabbit? So, what do they do? One of two things they usually get rid of it, take it to a shelter, try to re-home it, or they think, oh, here's a bright idea. Let's just release it in the park with all the other wild rabbits. It'll be fine. No, it won't. No, it won't. So I remember in animal control one year, there was this local park, and I don't know, two, three months after Easter, they all of a sudden had this influx of these white rabbits, white and colored rabbits. They were not jackrabbits, they were not cottontail rabbits, they were domestic rabbits. People got at Easter, didn't know what to do with them anymore, so they let them out. These poor rabbits were dying because they're either, you know, getting hit by a car, they're getting eaten by coyotes. Oh, it's horrible. So we're out there trying to catch these rabbits. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. I wasn't.

Scary Mall Bunnies And Myth Lies

SPEAKER_05 26:50

Well, I actually have uh a stat on that. Okay, tell me your thoughts. It says roughly 80% of shelter rabbits were once bought as Easter gifts and are abandoned by summer, just like what you said. Yep. So while kids may suffer stress from meeting the character or distress from learning, it is a lie. Oh, wait, we jumped from something else. I was trying to tell you about the 80% of the um rabbits and shelters are from Easter. I don't think rabbits are a mistrust. Easter, okay. All right, well, let's move on. Animal, okay. So we've obviously touched on the animal cruelty and abandonment. Live rabbits are often bought impulsively, they children lose interest, leading to high abandonment rates and overcrowded shelters. Pet care ignorance. Yeah. Ooh, that sounds mean. Domestic rabbits require specialized care, including hay and specific foods, and are not suitable for children to manage. Yep. Often biting when stressed or neglected. Yep. So maybe if you show them that move Monty Python movie, no DMK gonna want a bunny rabbit after that. And then child emotional distress. Yeah. Boy, we just really we try to make these holidays so special for our kids, and we're really just torturing them, it sounds like. Yep. So the tradition of sitting on a oh, this is about the mall bunny head that's terrifying. Um, the tradition of sitting on a giant creature's lap often a masked stranger can cause severe lasting anxiety and fear for children. Yeah. Yeah, and that's the other thing. I think that why Easter Bunny like believing in it does not last. When you go to the mall in Sienna, it's a person. Yeah. And you, I guess, depending on your age, yeah, you might not understand, because this doesn't look like a rabbit. Right. It's a person in a horrible bunny suit. So it just yeah, I don't know. I I don't think I was ever taken to see the Easter bunny.

KERRY 29:08

Yeah, I was.

SPEAKER_05 29:09

I remember getting drunk to see that.

KERRY 29:11

I think what we need to do is we need our listeners to post pictures of their local Easter bunny photo shoots, like where they took their kids to the mall or wherever the grocery store, wherever they had one of these Easter bunny things. We want to see these pictures in all the different variations of these Easter bunny representatives. That's what I want to see.

SPEAKER_05 29:37

Yeah, we what we would ask is if you could, though, we you know, of course, just to keep your sensitive, keep the children maybe cover their face or we would before we posted it, we would crop them out.

KERRY 29:50

Yeah, we just want to see the bunny part. So yeah. Blurb over put a fuzzy over the kid's face.

Rabbits In Gardens And Dogs Chasing

SPEAKER_05 30:01

Just you want to see the bunny. That's always terrifying in itself when we have to blur out people's faces. The tradition, okay. So we myth deception. Here we go again. We talked about this with Santa Claus. Yeah, the law, the big law. Yep. So research suggests that maintaining the myth of the Easter Buddy can cause children to feel hurt upon learning the truth or encourage lying behavior. So, you can't be a liar. So I'm gonna be a liar to you. Yeah, good lord. All these excuses for how we've ended up with some real horrible human beings running around. Money and dandy lied to me about the money. Now, this is really funny. Environmental garden damage. Any gardeners out there? I'm sure I do garden, but I have that rabbits, even not even if not the mythical kind, are destructive to landscaping. Okay, particularly young tulips and pansies in early spring. Yeah. So then we just need to hate the bunnies because they destroyed our garden, our flowers. I just hate the fact that I know we have a lot of bunnies coming into our yard, even though my yard is fenced. The reason I know this is because I have two dogs, and they just know that there were bunnies out there. We had. And those dogs, they're beautiful. I love to have them. But then when I got kids, I was worried because my kids would jump all over the place, and my one dog did get under my daughter when she was jumping around, and we had to deal with helping him out because he got hurt a little bit. But so I decided to get a golden doodle, which I love. They have two of them. And it's been a new experience though, because they are half retriever. Yeah. And they retrieved. So the big one, who weighs about 80 pounds, has killed birds. Yeah. He just jumps and gets them. Yeah. And for somebody like me, who has never been raised around the things you have, I totally all you do is hear me and Nick in the backyard screaming. And unfortunately, there's language coming out, and there's a ton of kids in this neighborhood. I probably we really need to try and watch.

SPEAKER_00 32:27

Oh.

SPEAKER_05 32:29

But Nick and I are traumatized. So we've got the Easter bunnies. Our trauma dogs killing birds. We are traumatized. We have traumatized.

SPEAKER_02 32:37

No, I do worry that he will catch it because there's a ton of bunnies in the backyard. Because we have pine trees and it's a lot of shelter. So they they'll do their nests under those on those pine trees. And he's always in there. I'm just I'm so worried he's gonna kill some of those bunnies.

SPEAKER_05 32:55

When yeah, we don't want to wait for the phone.

KERRY 32:56

When we lived on the farm, we have a chain link fenced in backyard, but the bunnies could easily get under and through. And most of our dogs never bothered them. But our little happy ons, who are barely as big as the bunnies, they thought it was just fun. And you're not meaning to do anything. They just see something running and they're like, oh, I want to play. And so they were constantly chasing these. So we're happy that we're here now because it's a block wall. So we don't have any rabbits getting in our yard, and they can't see the rabbits that we do see, which are jack rabbits. They're huge, they're like, I don't know, 25 pounds. They're big, they're really big. Oh, yeah, they're really big. And so we can enjoy seeing them now. We don't have to worry about our dogs chasing us. But, anyways, geez, it went down up.

SPEAKER_05 33:48

That's about as big as a dog. Yeah, so I think I did I cover everything. I think you did. I think we've been please enjoy Easter, enjoy your eggs, enjoy the bunnies, enjoy your plush little stuffed animals, yes, enjoy the dolls if you get a doll in your Easter basket.

Autism Month And Where To Find Us

KERRY 34:10

No, we really do want to wish everybody a happy Easter or whatever you're celebrating. And if you don't celebrate Easter, happy spring break, happy spring, happy weekend off, whatever. Yeah, absolutely. Talk about our uh Yes, absolutely. So we are in the month of April. So this month we are celebrating World Autism Month. And so our junkiest care initiative is the Crippy Go.

SPEAKER_05 34:39

Akron Autism Society. Yes, but a lot of communities have autism societies, and I pick that one because that one sort of represents the county I'm in right now. And seek that out. They are a nonprofit and they do wonderful things for families. They offer a lot of programs and information and just support.

KERRY 35:02

Absolutely. But definitely check out our Facebook page, check out our website, dysfunction junkiespodcast.com, and learn more about us, more and more about Akron Autism Society. And we'll see you next week. Bye, everybody.