Walking with "weights"

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Just a funny story from yesterday; my sister wanted to take a quick walk around the neighborhood after work for 20 minutes or so after dinner.

I, being the brilliant maximizer of opportunities that I am said, "We should carry weights, we'll burn more calories!"

We do not own any sets of weights, but we DO live in a very pet-friendly community. We ourselves own 4 rabbits; they are bonded pairs. Each pair has one large rabbit and one smaller rabbit.

(Is anyone out there wincing and saying 'uh-oh'?)

I should note here that it is impossible to immobilize a rabbit for an extended length of time safely unless you are a vet and have tranquilizers.

So, we took one bonded pair (MacGyver and Phoenix), put their harnesses and leashes on, and set out on our merry little trek down the street, to the park, and back. (It would have been impossible to have one rabbit in each hand, for those of you picturing us with rabbit-dumbbells. We carried them like toddlers.)

It was a good walk; we paused at the playground to sit on the swings for a minute and let the buns investigate the "great outdoors"...but on the way back we encountered a hill. Cue the huffing and puffing.

By the time we got home, my sister was firmly convinced that it was the rabbits that needed to be on a diet, and not us! There were even vague threats of no more treats and buying a treadmill.

Anyway, I just wanted to share that; it was very amusing and we are going to do it again tonight with Lucky and Hershey, our other pair. Really, we do it for the double-takes we get from the dog-walkers!