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HAIR & MAKE-UP: Sophia Eriksen/Agent Bauer STYLIST’S ASSISTANT: Pierre Camilo
INTERVIEWS: Erika Karlestedt
Rabbit exhibitions are deadly serious events. There are classes for jumpers and sprinters, and the perfect exhibition score is 100. The highest score given to a rabbit in Scandinavia so far is 96. The high jump world record is 99.5cm, and 3m for the long jump. Here are a couple of champions from various fields, some of whom came close to those numbers.
In rabbit exhibitions, owners aren’t allowed to show off their own bunnies—instead unbiased bunny carriers present the animals in a neutral way. For this shoot, we asked Linn and Daniel to be our own unbiased bunny carriers, and they replied, “Ooooh, bunnies!”—which is not very neutral but whatever.
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Owner: LYDIA, experienced rabbit trainer, age 17
Vice: You have two bunnies, but out of the two Jocke is the real champion, right?
Lydia: What does it feel like when she loses? What is your future plan for the bunnies?
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Bunny: NINA, female, age 6Owner: LYDIA, experienced rabbit trainer, age 17 Vice: What’s Nina like?
Lydia: You work with a modelling agency too, right? Who’s cuter, you or the bunnies?
Is she relaxed or paralyzed? How would you react if one of your bunnies died?
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Bunny: RUTEN, male, age 10 monthsOwner: LINNÉA, rabbit breeder, age 13
Vice: Is there anything that makes Ruten a loser?
Linnéa: Why?
You got Ruten in order to do obstacle course training, do you think he’ll be winning big?
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Bunny: KANINEN [THE BUNNY], female, age unknownOwner: RICHARD, first-time bunny owner, age 31
Vice: How did you end up with The Bunny?
Richard: Is she traumatised by her time on the street? What makes The Bunny a winner?
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Bunny: ÖRJE, male, age 11 monthsOwner: INGRID, bunny breeder, age 44
Vice: Why did you get Örje?
Ingrid: Is there anything that makes Örje a loser?
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Bunny: NUTTE, male, age 10 monthsOwner: ISABELLA, first-time bunny owner, age 8
Vice: Why did you decide to get a bunny?
Isabella: Sure, is your mum there? Why did she pick Nutte? What’s been Nutte’s biggest victory so far?