Oh God. These are SO adorable!!! :D

Thank you :)

Oh.... I want a Lil white one.....

There is one little white one, her name is Tilki :) http://foxloft.com/art-dolls/fox/tilki

Yea don't have enough for one and a suit I'm planning on.

So cute!

they're so cute...

V.

Reasons why I wish I had more spare cash to spend on pretty things. <3

awwwwwwwwwww

These are made from real rabbit fur? Does the rabbit mind?

Yes, these are made from rabbit fur, which was taken from food/meat rabbits. If anyone eats meat or uses leather, there is no difference, the animal was respected and used in whole.

Ok, I see. I was thinking it referred to the plain fur trade, where animals get skinned for nothing more than their fur, sort of like "hunters" who kill deer just to take the antlers home to the trailer.

No, I don't support that type of hunting/killing at all. There are sustainable ways to get certain types of fur - rabbit being on the top of that list (since like I said these come from food rabbits whose bones/parts also get used for fertilizer). I deer hunt as well, but we use the entire deer (including organs, feet, pelt, etc.) and deer here are *massively* overpopulated because of lack of natural predators.
I know a lot of people have a kneejerk reaction against fur of any sort - but it really depends so much on where it comes from - if you eat meat, or use leather goods, something like this rabbit is no different (from an ethical standpoint) than that - in fact a lot of the acrylic/poly/synthetic materials used in the manufacture of fake fur and fabrics can cause a lot more damage to the environment than sustainably raised meat/fur.

I can understand using all the parts of an animal killed for food. Leather is abundant because of the beef industry. Even if I'm uncomfortable with the idea of real fur, I know that humans are carnivores/omnivores and that just like with any other meat eater on the planet, some animals will die due to humanity's need for food (and why I can't blame the animal when a human becomes somebody's lunch). It's an unpleasant necessity of life. What I abhor is the practice of trophy hunting or "sport" hunting. It sickens me to listen to the people I work with talk about going out coyote hunting, practically giddy to go out and shoot an animal that is no different than somebody's dog, only to leave the animal there to rot. I have a great deal of respect for American Indians regarding their history and tradition of having so much respect and thanks for the animals they take for food, and their practice of using every part to ensure the animal did not die in vain.

I agree about the sport hunting! I think a lot of people have a strong drive to 'kill' and it's a sport most people learn within families from the time they are young, but it makes me exceptionally sad to see the total disassociation a lot of people have towards animals in general. They don't seem able to think of them as actual living, feeling beings at all. If I hunt, for food, I take it very seriously and though my small rituals may not mean anything to the animal they mean something to me and I try to use the animal as respectfully (and completely) as possible. I don't enjoy killing, but I am not against it either - when it comes to food - the 'wild' is an amazingly 'cruel' place when it comes to these things. I do feel rather strongly that anyone who eats animals should have to take responsibility to kill one at least once in their life. It's not pleasant, but I find it terribly unfair that people can go buy 'pretty' packages of meat at the store with no thought to where they come from and then turn around and call hunting cruel. This divorce/divide between people who have exposure to animals, life and death is just getting larger and I think it's the reason that we allow, as a society, things like factory farming go on. If we just see a pack of 'food' and a price tag, and don't see the animal it came from or really understand, on a personal level, it's easy to ignore. In my state, there is no season/limit on coyotes, they are aggressively hunted/trapped for sport and 'control', despite the fact it's proven that killing coyotes like this causes the population to grow and become more unstable (i.e. take out dominant animals in an area that were protecting their territory, now you have a bunch of young fringe pairs move in and overpopulate) - it's really frustrating. There are other and more effective ways of protecting livestock (like livestock guardian dogs and proper fencing!) - but most people don't care and just see coyotes as 'vermin'. I think education and exposure is really the key here - I spent a lot of time doing wildlife rehab and its amazing the difference actually seeing/meeting/learning about a coyote can make to a person. :)

Several years ago while working at an airport I got some pictures of some amazingly beautiful coyotes out by the runway. I have some of those pics posted to my gallery. To me they're every bit as amazing as wolves (and don't get me started on the wolf "hunt" that was legalized in my state).

While I don't hunt for food and instead buy it from the grocery store, I'm no stranger to death. When I was young and stupid, because of the environment I grew up in, I saw animals as things to do with as I pleased for entertainment. Once I owned my own BB gun I killed dozens of animals, mostly squirrels, for absolutely no reason other than they were there. With each one I felt terrible guilt, especially the longer the animal laid there dying as I was trying to put it out of the misery I had inflicted. But a few days later I was out there again, shooting and killing because of some sick twisted sense of it being "fun" that was taught to me. Eventually, after far too many years of doing that, I decided that I was done with it and vowed to never kill another animal so senselessly again. (I don't count insects in that because of infestation concerns, and have to keep mice under control if they get in the house, again because of infestation reasons.) So when I pick up a pack of meat in the store, I am grateful to that cow, pig, chicken, or fish that lost his/her life just so that I could eat. If I had to kill the animals I ate I'd never eat meat again because I'd be sobbing and blubbering the whole time.

What a massive burst of cutetrinos emanating from your direction. That is perhaps one of the cutest things I've ever seen. Great work!

They both look like they just got caught with their paws in the cookie jar.

thosee feet are just to adorable!

That "meh wantz 2 play" pose...