Once upon a time

a farmer's wife brought home one rabbit. One night it disappeared and she was very sad, thinking perhaps some ill had befallen it. She looked out for its little fluffy tail, its pretty twitchy nose, its blonde fur as soft as swansdown.
One day she came running in. "Oh, husband," she cried, "I have just seen Thistledown," for that is what she had named her, "in the top field."
He too was smiling but now he frowned, "But, wife, I have just seen her in the yard with the chickens."
Today you don't have to keep your eyes peeled to see a rabbit. Thistledown made friends with the local warren and now she lives happily ever after with ALL her family.