Cliff Penrose, 60 year old from Cornwall, is able to put the rabbits in a state of trance. Speaks, whispers, but especially caresses them and they carried away, to sleep.
Penrose raises rabbits for thirty years and has developed a method to ensure that you relax. It has about fifty, including Sonny, giant rabbit of 9.5 kg, and has learned to recognize the different moods of the creatures.
"Rabbits are highly intelligent animals," says, "understand and know our fear or our happiness and act accordingly. I found that if I'm nervous, even the rabbits become unruly, and if I am calm and relaxed, so are they. "
"Animals sense the mood of the human and react accordingly." The trance induced
takes about ten minutes, to allow sufficient time to conduct a routine veterinary examination. Incidentally. The British consider a rabbit animal symbol of the madness, the March Hare in Lewis Carroll or how to say "hopping mad".
Sources: Courier, Daily Mail.