The girl received a white bunny for her birthday\u2014the one she had always wanted. One whose whiteness reminded her of snowflakes and the snow she adored.<\/p>\n
Since she soon became a little ill, the doctor forbade her from going outside until spring arrived.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, something unexpected happened in the yard full of animals. The white bunny wasn\u2019t so white anymore\u2014his fur began to change color and he turned brown. For the bunny, this was no surprise at all, but for someone else, it would be.<\/p>\n
On the first day the girl went outside, excited and happy, she cheerfully walked around to visit all the animals. She greeted them, petted them, and finally ran to her bunny.<\/p>\n
But when she saw him, she was shocked.<\/p>\n
The white bunny no longer looked like himself\u2014he was completely brown.<\/p>\n
In disbelief, the girl started yelling, \u201cWhere is my bunny? What did you do to him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSomething must have happened to him,\u201d she cried desperately.<\/p>\n
Her worried parents ran outside to her. They tried to comfort her and explain that it was her bunny\u2014his fur had just changed.<\/p>\n
The girl replied suspiciously, \u201cBut he isn\u2019t white. That isn\u2019t my Bunny Whitey.\u201d<\/p>\n
After moments of complete despair, the girl began to understand what had happened\u2026 but did she accept it?<\/p>\n
Not really, because she wanted a white bunny and no other.<\/p>\n
She walked up and down the yard for a while, thinking. Then suddenly she turned around, picked up the bunny in her arms, and headed to another part of the yard.<\/p>\n
She remembered\u2014her bunny would become white again.<\/p>\n
She grabbed her shea butter body lotion from the table in the yard and started rubbing it onto the bunny. The bunny didn\u2019t like it at all, but the girl was thrilled because the bunny looked white again.<\/p>\n
When her mom realized what was happening, she cried out in shock, \u201cOh no.\u201d<\/p>\n
The girl turned toward her mom, and the bunny immediately managed to escape with a quick hop.<\/p>\n
All covered in lotion but still white, he slipped into a nearby puddle where the ducks were playing, and of course he became neither white nor brown, but gray and dirty.<\/p>\n
That amused the girl for a moment, and she started laughing loudly.<\/p>\n
But it didn\u2019t amuse her mom, who for days had to keep bathing the bunny to remove the mud stuck to him\u2014and then the lotion smeared all over him.<\/p>\n
When she finally managed to clean him, she quietly explained to the girl that when we love someone, we love them for who they are, not for how they look. The bunny might not be white anymore, but he was still the same bunny who was always happy to see her.<\/p>\n
Fun fact about rabbits\/hares:<\/strong>
\nWhite hares are known for changing the color of their fur. During winter, it is white and long to protect them from the cold, but in spring their coat turns reddish-brown to dark brown.<\/p>\n