Hare Scare
| It is amazing how animals trust in us. I experienced this once when I heard a hunt and hounds and I was sitting by a river, here in southern England. |
| I then was aware of an exhausted hare running in my direction on the other side. I realised the hounds were not far behind and I sent out a quiet, "here ... come to me. I'll hide you". The hare stopped running and looked over at me. |
| It clambered down the bank and leapt into the water; I was really afraid it might drown as it was so exhausted, anyway, it got to my side and crawled up and by me. It looked terrified and I gently lifted it into my rucksac just as the hounds arrived and all started jumping in the water and over to me ~ they had seen me hide the hare! |
| Eventually I was surrounded by yapping hounds trying to get at the hare. A minute later the hunt arrived on horseback and I asked them to call off their hounds! They asked if I had seen the hare and I said I hadn't and they apologised for their hounds behaviour!! Ha ha!! When they were well out of sight I let the hare come out of the rucksac and it stayed with me for about 30 minutes, licking its fur and resting. |
| After awhile it came over and looked at me so deeply I almost melted ~ I felt its gratitude and acknowledgement ~ a meeting of minds if you will and at the level of love. It ran off to live another day! |
By Dean Powell, from A Hare Story