This wild bunny in our neighborhood reminded me of the Velveteen Rabbit. From the book by By Margery Williams:
“By the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real, you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”
The Velveteen Rabbit was one of my daughters favourite books. Still makes me cry when I read it to the grandchildren now too.