She gives new meaning to “Playboy Bunny.”
A former Playboy model and famous bunny breeder is offering the equivalent of $ 1,300 for the return of her bunny with a world record stolen from his home in Worcestershire this weekend.
“A very sad day. Guinness world record Darius has been stolen from his home, ” tweeted the British Annette Edwards of her 10-year-old continental rabbit, which at 1.25 meters long holds the Guinness World Record for the world’s longest rabbit in the world.
“The police are doing their best to find out who took him. There is a reward of £ 1,000, ”added Edwards.
The identity of the rabbit burglars remains unclear.
The theft marks a heartbreaking blow to the 68-year-old mother of 10 and former glamor model, who has held the world record since 2008 with four of her animals taking the title, the Daily Mail reported.
And while Darius is currently holding the colossal cottontail crown, he’s about to be overshadowed by his offspring, Lewis and Daisy May, both of whom are over four feet tall.
Sadly, 35lb Darius is too old to breed now, but his larger size offspring once sold for nearly $ 350.
Raising such a giant hare is no mean feat. Edwards is spending nearly $ 7,000 to give her colossal bunnies the carrots and apples needed to maintain their massive size. She says the secret to breeding them large is to make sure the parents are big and not to crossbreed.
Edwards is so enamored with bunnies that she struggled to become one: She is said to have dropped more than $ 13,500 on cheek implants, chin implants, and a breast lift in an attempt to look like Jessica Rabbit, the cartoon sex spotlight explains. Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
A West Mercia police spokesman confirmed to the Daily Mail that they were investigating the bunny theft: “We are asking for information after the theft of an award-winning rabbit from his home in Stoulton, Worcestershire,” Officer Daren Riley told the outlet. “The Continental Giant Rabbit is believed to have been stolen from its enclosure in the garden of its owners’ estate from Saturday, April 10 to April 11.”
Meanwhile, this isn’t the first time a tragedy has befallen one of Edwards’ beloved bunnies. In 2017, Darius’ son Simon – who was then predicted to become the world’s largest rabbit – mysteriously died on a United Airlines flight from London to US customers.
The flight company dug themselves deeper after cremating the three-foot rabbit without the owner’s permission, raising the suspicion that they were hiding something.
“The whole thing stinks like a cover,” countered the hopping mad breeder at the time, adding that she “has sent rabbits around the world and nothing like this has happened before.”
United Airlines was later sued by Simon’s potential buyers in Iowa.
