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AN ANIMAL-LOVING family was left broken-hearted after thieves stole 11 rabbits and four quails from a back garden.
Kara and Maz Merriman keep birds, rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs and two lizards at their home in Braunstone, Leicester.
Thieves broke into their back garden and stole 11 of their 14 rabbits, along with two hutches, the four quails in their cage, and bags of hay and animal food.
Kara, 22, said: "The burglars seem to have come into the back garden and cut open the rabbit hutch because we found the padlock broken."
The break-in, which took place at the family's home in Cowdall Road, on Christmas Eve, has especially upset Kara's son Jayden, four.
He said: "I really like the rabbits and I was very upset when I found out they'd been taken."
Maz, 35, added: "We also had a break-in last cheap ed hardy October when they took the telly and some jewellery.
"We also get a lot of grief for being gay.
"I have to park my car up the road because it's been vandalised."
The total value of the cages, rabbits and quails to the burglars tiffany heart link bracelet is thought to be around Pounds 200.
Kara said: "Some of the rabbits were pedigree lionheads, which can sell for around Pounds 20 each.
Four of the females they took were pregnant.
"Whoever did it knew what they were doing - they must have had gloves to get the rabbits out. One of them was pretty vicious.
"But it's worst of all for Jayden. He just wants his rabbits back."
Police have appealed for anyone with information to contact Pc Tim Oliver on 0116 222 2222 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
I am one of those obnoxious people who will, unbidden, treat anyone within hearing to selected nuggets from whatever book I happen to be reading No matter that my daughter is watching the first episode of the new season of True Blood, or my husband is writing an urgent business e-mail "Listen to this," I cry, and, ignoring their groans, launch in
Generally, an hour or so into one of my reading sessions I look up, a quote on my lips, to find the room that once contained my entire family is now empty except for the dog, and she's only there because in my hyper-focused state, I failed to notice she'd snuck onto the couch
Related ResultsObama, GOP differ on taxes leading up to deadlineUnemployed turning to religious leaders for help finding jobsObama says Congress must MarkON June 29, 1995, the space shuttle Atlantis docked with [DerivedEnergy policy needed without wind powerIt is the rare author indeed whose work, read aloud by me, will not drive my family away Rarer still the author who could cause the most discerning of my offspring, my teenage son, to request a reading, this after I laughed so hard at the book in front of me - Coop: A Family, a Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg by Michael Perry - that I spewed tea out of my nose. tiffany heart tag bracelet
My son aspires to write comedy professionally, and so it is of great interest to him how a joke may be structured such that nasal spewing ensues Still, I wasn't sure he'd find the line as funny as I had By the time I choked on my tea, I had Michael Perry's authorial voice - wry and self-deprecating - in
my head for close to 200 pages He sounded familiar, an amalgam of every funny person I'd ever known, a guy with impeccable timing and an irony so understated it was easy to miss I wasn't sure I could do the line justice Still, I went for it. (Swiss).
"Today a dog bit me grievously upon the ass"
My son cracked up
"I think it's the juxtaposition of lofty language and mild profanity that does it," I said, kicking into writing teacher mode " 'A dog bit me grievously upon the leg,' wouldn't be funny"
My son agreed, but thought the imagery had something to do with it. (Cartier). "A dog biting a guy isn't funny A dog biting a guy's butt is funny"
And a dog biting a guy's rear end while the guy is already busy wrestling a pig (which is exactly what Perry was doing at the time) is funnier still. (Blancpain). Did I mention that Coop is a memoir?
Coop, though, is more than just a series of humorous stories loosely bound around a year in which Perry becomes a father, moves to a new farm and tries to finish the chicken coop of his dreams before predators devour his entire flock
It is an often poignant, painfully honest examination of family, friendship and small-town life, which moves seamlessly between the present and Perry's mostly happy childhood in an enormous, fundamentalist Christian family living on a hardscrabble farm in Wisconsin. Wholesale Jewelry Guide And if Perry knows how to construct a joke, he also writes beautifully of love and death, the sustenance of honest work, and the consolation to be found in nature