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NEW WORLD RECORD
Biggest
Rabbit - world record set by Darius the Rabbit
Monday, February 15, 2010
Biggest
Rabbit - Ralph the rabbit sets world record
UCKFIELD, East Sussex, UK -- Ralph, a Continental
Giant rabbit, is just 12 months old but already weighs 19,5
kg (42lb) and is 1.23m (4ft) long - setting the new world
record for the Biggest
Rabbit.
Photo: Ella McDonnell, 10, with the Ralph
the rabbit, which is the world's
largest bunny and weighs more than the average three-year-old
child. (enlarge
photo)
Owner Pauline Grant relies on
handouts from neighbours to feed Ralph - who weighs more than
an average three-year-old child and has already become too
heavy for her to lift.
'He is just so big. You do not fully realise
until you pick him up and he has quite the appetite,' she
said.
'It
really hits us in the pocket having to feed him but thankfully
Ralph is so famous in the area people stop me in supermarkets
and offer to fit the bill.' 'I have no idea how big he is
going to get, it could be a ridiculous size but everyone loves
him and he laps up the attention.'
Mrs Grant, 73, who runs the Sussex
Horse Rescue Trust in Uckfield, said it has daily
meals of Weetabix, water biscuits, apples, carrots, cabbages,
toast, sweetcorn and huge bowls of rabbit food. "He's really
heavy and his weight is all in his shoulders and back end.
He likes his food and I take him a big tray full of all his
favourite things every day."
The world's
biggest rabbit is just 12 months old but already weighs
more than his mother Amy - weighing in at more than three
stone. Ralph's dad Roberto is also a previous record holder
for the world's
biggest rabbit after weighting in at 35lb and measuring
3ft 1inches.
Ralph's mother Amy, a Continental
Giant rabbit, was the previous Guinness world record holder
for the Biggest
Rabbit title; she suddenly dropped dead — just
hours before she was to star on a television show.
Owner Annette Edwards, 56, flew
her from Britain to Milan specially to appear on the Italian
version of Record Breakers. But a day of filming in front
of the cameras proved too much for Amy, who had given birth
to 32 babies. She died in a hotel room that night.
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Monday, February 15, 2010
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