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A stinking good idea for rabbits?

There are occasions when I find myself deep in the internet. One click leads to another, which invites the next click. A few YouTube videos come and go before you’ve found your way back to some niche page, adverts popping up left, right and centre, and cookies following you everywhere. I’m sure we’ve all been there.

It was on one such occasion that I found myself reading a comment thread on a blog post about “stinking-out rabbits”. Had I searched for it on Google, there’s no way it would have come up on any of the first few dozen results pages. But there I was, reading with interest the opinions of BobG1958 and his fellow rabbit-stinkers. It was, as you can imagine, a curious thread.

The debate was fierce and at times a little crude, but it centred on the idea that, instead of using a ferret to

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