Fluffy bunnies

nevis said:
fluffy bunnies is the game you play with flumps ... how many flumps can you get in your mouth at the one time and say the words "FLUFFY BUNNIES" ...without losing any flumps.

FH's 30 year old record of 22 remains, I think, unbeaten. :D :D :D ;)
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Fwuff...fmug...guffy...myff

Best answer of the night.

I'll tell you what happened to my fluffy bunnies.

My dog ate them.

So, in life, I would rather be a dog, than a fluffy bunny :)

Also, if you observe nature, or watch Springwatch, you will see what stoats and weasels do to bunnies, despite the size disadvantage.
 
A fluffy bunny is a person who is all "Aww bless", and tiptoes about apologising to their animals: a person who has no idea how to behave around horses/dogs etc ...would never dream of trying to be pack leader with their dog, for instance....who subsequently walks all over them, is very confused, and a nightmare for a vet to handle.

Fluffy bunnies will anthromorphise all their animals, and treat them like their children, instead of as appropriate to them. Their horse is probably bargy, and has a notice on it's stable door to that effect eg "If it's snowing tomorrow and I can't get to the yard could you please just put some hay over the door, without opening it" (If you did open said door, said pone would hightail it to the next county to escape...through you/over you, it wouldn't matter). A fluffy bunny would secretly like this behaviour, as it proves to them that their pone has "character"....it's also probably very fat as putting a grazing muzzle on it/strip grazing etc would be cruel and upsetting for the owner.




CaveCanem lol! Spot on quirky!
 
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Used on this Forum, it is a deliberately derogatory term that the user will revert to when they can't be ar$ed to explain their own viewpoint properly. In my opinion, it signifies that the person using it has already lost the argument. Can't we come up with a similar derogatory name for those people who perhaps have had compassion, understanding and empathy by-passes and so revert to calling people with viewpoints other than their own "fluffy bunnies" and "bunny huggers"? What about "Blue Alkatheners"? Is that derogatory enough? It certainly has the deliberately offensive tone and massive catch-all disinterest. Tell you what, I'll try it for a month.
 
Trinity Fox said:
I have been called a fluffy bunny i buy horses in to sell sometimes then blub and cry when they go sad i know, i have paid huge vets bills more than the horse is worth:o bought the raggedy muffins at sales got them right and not made a penny on them.
But i am not a pushover do not let horses walk all over me and expect good behaviour with the right training.
I do not keep horses when its time to let them go for my own sake either so maybe i am not one:confused:
I do think it is used alot on here as an insult when people dont agree.
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Yes I agree. As soon as someone who is advocating a hard line starts to lose the argument, they resort to the 'bunny hugger' response. :D

Of course, there are times when a hard line is needed, but some seem to take pride in always chosing it. :rolleyes:
 
Box_Of_Frogs said:
Used on this Forum, it is a deliberately derogatory term that the user will revert to when they can't be ar$ed to explain their own viewpoint properly. In my opinion, it signifies that the person using it has already lost the argument. Can't we come up with a similar derogatory name for those people who perhaps have had compassion, understanding and empathy by-passes and so revert to calling people with viewpoints other than their own "fluffy bunnies" and "bunny huggers"? What about "Blue Alkatheners"? Is that derogatory enough? It certainly has the deliberately offensive tone and massive catch-all disinterest. Tell you what, I'll try it for a month.
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:D:D:D
 
Wagtail said:
Yes I agree. As soon as someone who is advocating a hard line starts to lose the argument, they resort to the 'bunny hugger' response. :D

Of course, there are times when a hard line is needed, but some seem to take pride in always chosing it. :rolleyes:
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..and when someone ELSE is finding it hard to substantiate their argument, they yell 'BULLY!' because they cannot get their heads around the fact that just MAYBE...someone else has got an opinion that holds just as much weight, if not more.

Then we hear 'the HHO bullies are out tonight!'..

This is downright rude, and not true at all, it implies those with an ounce or more of independant thinking are out to 'get us all'.

This has happened in lots of threads, not even to do with the subject at hand.

It's as easy to play the 'Bully' card, as it is to play the 'Fluffy Bunny' card....
 
DragonSlayer said:
..and when someone ELSE is finding it hard to substantiate their argument, they yell 'BULLY!' because they cannot get their heads around the fact that just MAYBE...someone else has got an opinion that holds just as much weight, if not more.

Then we hear 'the HHO bullies are out tonight!'..

This is downright rude, and not true at all, it implies those with an ounce or more of independant thinking are out to 'get us all'.

This has happened in lots of threads, not even to do with the subject at hand.

It's as easy to play the 'Bully' card, as it is to play the 'Fluffy Bunny' card....
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Bullying does occur on here - quite often. It occurs when people start name calling and attacking the person as a person and not their views. It occurs when lots of members join in this name calling. I think that is where you draw the line. Attack someone's argument and not their person.
 
Wagtail said:
Bullying does occur on here - quite often. It occurs when people start name calling and attacking the person as a person and not their views. It occurs when lots of members join in this name calling. I think that is where you draw the line. Attack someone's argument and not their person.
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Then you could say, those who might be percieved as 'Fluffy Bunnies' call those who might think that...'Bullies'...so it's half a dozen of one, and six of the other, right?

Half and half.....

Many should think about that.
 
To me, a bunny hugger is somebody who is extremist in a 'soft' view of looking after horses.

The kind of person who believes that anyone who has a horse PTS when it could possibly be a field ornament is evil, ditto anyone who ever uses a whip to discipline a horse, or as part of a training method.

I don't care what anyone does with their own horses - but I do find it offensive when this type of person comes onto the forum and starts bandying about terms like "abuse" and "evil" and "cruel" towards those who have a more pragmatic approach to horse ownership.

Yes I agree. As soon as someone who is advocating a hard line starts to lose the argument, they resort to the 'bunny hugger' response.
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Usually because the so called 'bunny hugger' has just called them abusive, or cruel - a far more offensive and damaging insult IMO.
 
xspiralx said:
Usually because the so called 'bunny hugger' has just called them abusive, or cruel - a far more offensive and damaging insult IMO.
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This could cetainly be true in some cases. Good point.

Now, do you think we could come up with a list of things that could rightfully be called 'abusive' or 'bunny hugging'? No chance, but we could get an excellent 'discussion' going trying. :D
 
To me a fluffy bunny is someone who either:
Anthropomorpises their animals & treat then as child substitutes.
Who won't pts even when the animal is suffering with no hope
Who thinks there is a good home for every horse no matter how dangerous it's behaviour or physical issues & therefore no horse that can stand should be pts. If someone is considering putting down an 18h 5yo poor doer with severe wobblers that can buck & rear for England it's just because they are too lazy to find a companion home.
 
We all are different and thank goodness, otherwise how boring.

But people will always try and find a way to split people into us & them camps to justify themselves and their treatment of them (the others).

Could go on but can't really be bothered:)
 
On HHO Fluffy bunny seems to be aimed at people who the other person feels are too soft on their horses, and it also seems to be used to try and discredit all avenues of 'natural horsemanship':confused:
now i like a bit of NH myself, so therefore i must be a bit of a bunny hugger .........except i shoot the fluffy bunnies that dig holes in my fields:confused:
 
tallyho! said:
bunny huggers are slightly different.... see definition by quirky.
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Lol! I had no idea they were different. H&H definition of both seems to vary depending on who is posting but lately I've come to learn that to many it is used as a term to describe someone with challanged common sense.

It is a meaningless term to me especially since I admitted to being one and then read the posts leading me to my conclusion above. :D Nothing like the truth to make one sit up and pay attention. :p
 
Hmmm, an excellent thread and so many posts I agree with, this in particular:-

DragonSlayer said:
..and when someone ELSE is finding it hard to substantiate their argument, they yell 'BULLY!' because they cannot get their heads around the fact that just MAYBE...someone else has got an opinion that holds just as much weight, if not more.

Then we hear 'the HHO bullies are out tonight!'..

This is downright rude, and not true at all, it implies those with an ounce or more of independant thinking are out to 'get us all'.

This has happened in lots of threads, not even to do with the subject at hand.

It's as easy to play the 'Bully' card, as it is to play the 'Fluffy Bunny' card....
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Bunny hugger, is a term used by vicious sadistic old harpy's who don't like or understand other views and methods.

Their horses are always hard to handle or poorly trained and need punishment and discipline, their cinstan
 
Anyone who doesn't say that they thrash their horses regularly because that is the only way t !o get respect and they live in the real world (not the fantasy world of the bunny huggers!).
 
To me ,a Bunney hugger is someone whose understanding of real animals is based on a "Walt Disney" view of life and who then goes on to preach at everyone else that they are all cruel and uncaring. For me ,the classic Bunney Hugger was someone I met ,involved with a charity sending food and medical supplies to Romania. This group needed to store the supplies and were loaned a disused building . I casualy mentioned that it would be necessary to buy some rat poison and bait the area first. I could not believe the resulting furor from the chief bunney hugger and her mates. Well ,they got their way! Needless to say ,they werent there when all the stuff had to be disposed of due to rat contamination .20 Tonnes!.
 
I've met a few people who own horses but do not believe they should do anything they don't want to do, and don't believe they should be used for amusement; they don't believe in competing. Therefore I am a terrible person for showing my horses, and the fact that I strongly support horse racing makes me a cold blooded murderer. They have horses who spend days in their fields, are not caught if they don't want to be, are handled solely using NH methods (not done properly, however, so the horses seem to be trampling all over them) and certainly never competed. I call these bunny huggers!
 
To win a competition at most shows, is to be the best of the worse, who turned up that day.

Most race supporters know nothing about horses, that's why they are called punters.

Each to their own though, lol.
 
Pale Rider said:
To win a competition at most shows, is to be the best of the worse, who turned up that day.

Most race supporters know nothing about horses, that's why they are called punters.

Each to their own though, lol.
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:confused::confused:
How did we get from bunny huggers to punters?
Are they the same thing in your world PR :confused:?
 
I think most Fluffy Bunnies aren't actually at all Fluffy - they may be wrong, or they may be right, but they are normally branded 'Fluffy' by someone trying to bully them or put them down.

If said person wanted to be constructive, they would use another term?
 
Go on Punk.... Make my day - call me a fluffy bunny

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What I mean is that people who who compete or show, very often lose sight of what is good for their horse in the desire to win.

Look how badly top horses are kept in their gilded cages.
 
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