On top of rabbits perhaps being viewed differently in really old works like, say, The Bible, being portrayed as a trickster or a pest and/or spreader of disease, have the swamp rabbit that attacked Jimmy Carter actually get onto his boat and kick his ass, maybe indirectly by making him lose his balance and fall off the boat (not from the rabbit attacking him, more out of shock), or perhaps he's seriously wounded when the rabbit bites or scratches him really deep into a sensitive area (like his nads or an artery on his arm or leg). Perhaps this causes some people to think of rabbits as being potentially dangerous and shouldn't be kept as pets. On the other hand, it might cause him to be ridiculed even harder, especially by critics of him who could say that he was beaten up by a rabbit of all things.
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