Jack Rabbits are North American Hares and theyโre the WORST to encounter at night becuase:
You all know how big a rabbit is.ย Jack Rabbits and hares are much bigger. theyโre the size of large cats or small dogs or just-walking-age children.
They also like to hang out in gangs of a hlf dozen to over 30.
and in the middle of backcountry dirt roads.
perhaps theyโre dustbathing
I donโt know because when you come up the road at night because your dog has a tiny bladder and needs to go out at midnight and you have no yard so youโre walking him on the dirt road around your neighborhod because you might aw well get some stargazing in, and you come just over the ridge to see a coven of twenty jackrabbits in the middle of the road
not just onto all fours like a proper prey animal
No they get up on thier hind legs and donโt just sit but STAND like tiny rabbit-skinned toddlers, wobbing slightly as they stare directly at you eyes shining in your flashlightโs glow
And a chill goes through you on that warm july night because while theyโre a puntable size and allegedly herbivores theyโre standing and watching you just like people and you are vastly outnumbered.
youโre considering your odds aganst roughly 200lbs of Suspiciously Humanoid Hare
and theyโre considering their odds against you
the only sound in the never-ending high desert windย
somewhere in your peripheral vision you can see the streetlights but they seem awfully far away
and takes a single shuffling step
You area an overdevloped monkey and your prefrontal cortex is capable of some amazing feats but it runs very slowly compared to the reflexes of a rabbit and youโre frozen as you desperately scramble for the appropriate course of action, hands feeling thick and useless, mouth dry and feet imeasurably heavy thereโs no way youโd outrun THESE, god thereโs a rabies outbreak going around that shitโs not curable-
Itโs only the briefest of movements but the animal youโd picked out for his gangly legs and floppy ears and goofy smile is suddenly a dark shape of muscle and teeth and had flung himself at the horrible goblin rabbits faster than mere physics should dictate, appearing in the circle of the flashlight for only the briefest of moments before the jolt from the leash makes you stumble and the light falters
Vanishing into the faintly starlit sagebrush in as so many faint gray shapes that might be mistaken for the dustclouds they kick up
Later, you sit on the couch disquieted
If the sight of the Jack Rabbits standing and studying you was frightening enough to make you yearn for the safety of the yellowed streetlights
what must it be like from thier end?
what terrifying creatureย
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