Cecil S. Webb, director of the Dublin Zoo, with Horace the hare.LIFE With Horace the Housebroken HareWritten By: Ben Cosgrove
The notion of a wild hare living in one’s house does not sit well with a lot of people. Men and women who are perfectly content to let a cat or dog roam around their homes will shiver in something like revulsion at the idea of a virile, bright-eyed hare hopping blithely through the kitchen, hanging out in the bathroom or sitting quietly on the living room sofa.
In its March 12, 1956, issue, LIFE shared the housebroken hare’s tale and Mydans’ pictures with the magazine’s readers:
Dutch rabbits? I see duck rabbits.
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