We raise meat rabbits and process them at home at 12–14 weeks — the standard time frame where a rabbit has put on good meat but hasn't started eating into its own feed efficiency. The meat becomes raw food for our working dogs. We currently eat very little of it ourselves, because our table is covered by other stock — but a rabbit is also a meal if we ever need one, which is part of why we keep them.

Today I thought: what if I just tipped the cage a little, so all six kits slid to the high side, and then I dragged it across the grass with nothing under their feet to catch? Genius. Efficient. The kind of innovation that wins awards. Until one of them fell out.