Michael P. Mayko, Connpost.com, 4th April 2009
A week ago he was just a bunny with two noses. But today the tri-color 8-week-old dwarf bunny is a celebrity -- he'll guest on Fox & Friends this morning.
He's booked for an appearance on Cablevision 12's Pet Talk with Lauren Collier. And his face and noses have appeared in newspapers around the world as well as on popular Web sites as YouTube and Zoo Tube.
But the bunny is not for sale, maintains Tom Fomenko, owner of Purr-Fect Pets Inc. 282 Boston Post Road. Offers have come from people, carnivals and freakish sideshows -- as much as $5,000, said Jeromy Rey-nolds, a store manager.
For now the bunny whose anomaly was discovered by Alexandra Noe, a store employee, has his own cage with his own hay, water bottle and lettuce in his own spot -- right on the counter. "We're keeping it in close view," said Reynolds, a former school teacher who manages the store. "When the owner or one of the managers is not around, the bunny is put away. We're very afraid someone might steal it." They are coming to see it -- about 25-30 people a day.
People like Leslie Johnson, who brought her cousins, Arionne Hudson, 8, and Kevin Hudson, 4, from Meriden Saturday to see the bunny.
The store is running a Name The Bunny Contest, in which the winner will receive a $50 gift certificate if they reside locally or a $50 donation to their favorite animal shelter it they are out of state. Arionne submitted "Two-Faced Tom" as her name. But she might have to beat out "Nostrildamus" -- submitted by a Spokane, Wash. resident.
Reynolds and Fomenko said the bunny may be donated to a special place -- perhaps a school where physically challenged children attend, or Locket's Meadow Farm in Bethany that Kathleen Schurman and her husband, David Melina, run for abandoned and abused animals. This bunny is special," Fomenko said. "It's my intention it go to a special place."
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