Recently *The Institute hosted a photo tour and workshop at one of the animal incarceration facilities near us and we came across a puzzling set of circumstances. In many, or at least in one of the holding pens, we were startled to find a headless rabbit. This was a rabbit that at one time had had a head but now did not. The space where there would have been a head was now occupied by, well, nothing.

The other animal occupying the cell was a cat-like creature called a Fossa. We don’t know much about it other than it seemed to be intimately involved with the remains. At our urging it brought the headless rabbit up to the bulletproof glass of its enclosure for our inspection. Despite our repeated questioning, this Fossa refused to provide any details of the incident that may have led up to the rabbit becoming headless. Circumstantial evidence pointed to the Fossa’s involvement but without proof all we could do was speculate and make unfounded accusations towards this possible perpetrator. It studiously ignored these and in its inscrutable way seemed to be daring us to do something about it.

We immediately decided to tell and sent one of the interns to find an official that we could rat this Fossa out to. While waiting we quickly executed a 70″ x 140″ oil painting, which you can see above as we are wont to do at any crime scene we’re involved in to capture any clues and to document the general conditions of the situation as we found it. We then of course photographed the painting to show you, our readers, what we found and to use in case there were any legal proceedings that we might become involved with.

The intern returned breathless but out of breath to haltingly state that there were no officials anywhere to be found. No authority, no security guards, no rabbit handlers, no one but a small group of Dominican nuns that were speed walking through the area. We began to smell a conspiracy.

How did the rabbit get into the enclosure? Was it headless when it did? Or did the headlessness occur later, say around feeding time? Did the headlessness occur at another area and the body dumped in the Fossa’s enclosure to implicate it? Was the Fossa secretly a rabbit molester which might answer why it was being incarcerated in the first place? If so how did the rabbit get in there with it? Was that why there were no Fossa handlers here to answer our questions? How can Dominican nuns speedwalk so fast? Is there a cover up? Was the election rigged? Each question raised more questions in a snowballing effect that left us hungry for Mexican food.

Unable to get to the bottom of this strange situation we tied the painting to the roof of our privately owned vehicle and left the scene determined to get answers, and some burritos, but at a later date. Much later. It was already dark and kind of scary, headless rabbits will do that to you, traffic was murderous, we were hungry and it appeared that we were the only ones who cared even a little bit about this situation. So we left. I mean what would you have done?

We fully intend to follow-up this dreadful situation and a copy of this post is being sent to the warden and all other interested parties at the detention center and we will demand a full investigation into this matter. Check back as we find out more about Headless Rabbits and Other Oddities. Also if you happen to be interested in purchasing a 70″ x 140″ nicely done oil painting that now seems to be just sitting around the office in the way please drop us a line % The Director at The Institute, let us know how much we can stick you for it and we’ll ship it out to you right away. Thanks.

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