This fluffy menace was harder work than either of our babies. But she did show us how to nurture a creature you can’t reason withTilly wasn’t our first choice: my wife and I had fallen for a grey lop-eared charmer in a local shop who was unexpectedly pulled from sale. But we were now determined to acquire a rabbit, so we traipsed from store to store around south-west London, this tiny ball of brown and white fluff. Suddenly we could imagine no other bunny.Tilly was many things. When our landlord was around, she was at a friend’s. To the kale producers of Britain, she was a lifeline. To us, she was affectionate, but with a strong sense of personal space – you could tell when she wanted to be touched and when she did not. Continue reading...

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/may/25/the-pet-ill-never-forget-tilly-the-rabbit-who-taught-us-how-to-raise-a-family