One day I came back home to be informed that Peter had wanted to explore the territory further. In other words, Peter had escaped from the garden! We must have left the small gate leading down to the garden open, and from the garden he easily found his way out around the second gate, white, since we have no brick wall surrounding our garden but only bamboo and other thick bush.
Our au-pair was the first one to realise Peter was missing! She went out into the community garden, and there was Henry, our friendly and helpful Colombian janitor, racing round the pool, and round it again shouting "el conejo!!!!!", after naughty Peter who just wouldn't let himself be caught and was running for it in a way in which only rabbits can do. It must have been a rather comic sight. Finally, between the two they did catch him and brought him back home.
This was our first lesson about rabbit fleeing. After talking about it with other former pet rabbit owners, I found out that more often than not, rabbits do have a habit of escaping from their owners' home. I was even told stories about them digging a hole half a metre deep to get out of closed gardens or courtyards.
So then I went to the shop and bought a harness for him. I thought, I want you to enjoy the fresh grass and the plants, but not at any cost! So after that day, when I let him down the garden I tied him onto our big old linden tree. He looked very cute in his little red harness, but he didn't seem to like it very much, and he kept going around the tree and everything else in it, which sometimes made the lead end up tangled up and of course he couldn't move much after that, which must have been quite unpleasant for poor little Peter.
Things were starting to get dangerous...
the white gate
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