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Re: Velveteen Rabbit. They didn't have to burn the rabbit, though, they could have just locked it in a box for a week or left it...

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Re: Velveteen Rabbit. They didn't have to burn the rabbit, though, they could have just locked it in a box for a week or left it out in the sun for an afternoon. Childhood tragedy averted through germ theory!

or boiled it. There was actually a huge thing in the UK where they declared WWII and all these people moved to kill their pets and a few days later they had to put out official message “uh there’s no actual reason to do that”