Yikes. Leashes can be dangerous...

Jenny and Arthi had brought Fakewich down on the leash, and those two, Ramen, Toomey and myself were sitting out on Blacker Beach playing with her. Everything was absolutely fine for twenty minutes or so. She was hopping around Jenny in circles when I noticed the leash twining around her back legs... I mentioned it to Jenny, Jenny moved to fix it, and Fakewich panicked. She began leaping around, screaming (yes, rabbits scream. It's a scary sound, and you'll only hear it when they're terrified), trying to get free... but the loop end of the leash was around Jenny's ankle, so the leaping only pulled it tighter and caused her to panic more. Arthi tried to grab Fakewich to free her legs, but she was jumping around too frantically. Although in hindsight it wasn't the brightest idea, all I could think of and say was, 'Let the other end go!' When Jenny had difficulties getting it off, I grabbed Jenny's ankle and pulled off the leash off her foot. With the leash slack, Fakewich instantly went bounding across part of Blacker Beach. The five of us tried to cover escape routes to the street and parking lot as she eventually loosened, then freed the leash from around her hind legs, slowing as she felt the tension give. After a couple of failed tries, we finally cornered her at the Ricketts Ath-side entrance, and Toomey and Jenny were able to approach her - Jenny removed the leash, and Toomey held her. Talk about luck... Toomey's amazingly good at handling rabbits. (Turns out, he's had 3 or 4 before - experience is a wonderful thing.) So he was able to calm her after a while, and it doesn't seem like the leash hurt her hind legs. Awfully frightening episode though... all I can think now is, what would have happened if she'd gone into the street instead of the other way? My actions could've killed her, but I couldn't think of anything else to do while she was panicking (and come to think of it, that's exactly what you should do with a horse or dog that's panicking at the end of a lead - just release the other end, and wait for them to calm down. So I guess it was a reasonable enough conclusion). Thank goodness everything turned out ok.

Also, you should probably go pet Fakewich now and tell her she's ok... go visit her in Arthi's room. She's a really fantastic rabbit. :)