Yesterday Jann Arden tweeted about being home from tour and making Christmas lists for her friends/families – and mentioned she might just buy everyone a Goat. I thought this was a pretty cool comment actually, as she has been working with World Vision on her current tour (donating proceeds of her ‘on stage’ paintings to World Vision) – I knew she meant buying a Goat from the World Vision Gift Catalog in the name of her family and friends, for someone living in extreme poverty in Africa or other developing countries.
I was almost asleep last night when the thought hit me – all I want for Christmas is a rabbit. This thought came to me as I lay listening to < a href=”http://www.twitter.com/collective_soul” target=”blank”> Collective Soul on my iPod in bed – their new/current album is actually called Self Titled, but because it has a rabbit on the cover, everyone has dubbed it ‘Rabbit’. I have enough money that I”ve been able to go buy this album the day it came out in stores but many of my friends had to save for a month to go buy it – and many people in developing countries are scrimping and saving to just buy food -there are no luxuries.
Collective Soul did a contest a few months back called Pay it Forward for CS – the band is all about giving back to people and encourage their fans to do likewise… which led me to thinking about Rabbits – and about World Vision (the band recently participated in a Comfort Doll photo op which we auctioned and sent the money to World Vision)… and World Vision has Rabbits as one of the gifts you can give! A pair of rabbits are a good starter business for a family – they breed well, like rabbits 
and are a good source of income for selling at market, or a good source of protein for a family in need of food… so all I want for Christmas is a pair of rabbits.
Since I already have the Collective Soul ‘Rabbit’, a pair of World Vision rabbits would be wonderful. And I know that Collective Soul fans are also giving in nature – what a neat thing it would be to spread this idea around and have it multiply like … rabbits So when your friends or family ask what you want for Christmas – think about asking for a rabbit or two.
you can find the World Vision Gift catalog here: Canadian Rabbit Gift and USA Rabbit Gift
my only question is this..What are they going to feed the rabbits ? I raise rabbits, and am critically aware of both what and how much they eat..maybe not such a great idea after all..
Thats a good question -nobody has ever asked this so i dont have an answer but i will see what i can find out – my assumtion (and yes, one should not assume) is that they will sell the rabbits at a younger age as breeding stock and not have to feed it into adult hood – except for the pair they have that they use themselves for breeding.
I will see what i can find out.