Rabbit Jumping Contest At Indy

On November 1, 2011, at the youth building of the ARBA convention in Indianapolis, two rows of hurdles were set up for rabbit jumping contest.

Here comes a contestant with his little rabbit.

Little guy is doing OK, running and jumping. The two adults on the right side of the photo are judge Mike, ARBA president and judge Susie from MN. They are taking on the task of judging the rabbit jumping contest.

Little rabbit decided that he did not want to go any farther. There is a very noisy heating unit on the right side, just next to the two judges.

The owner decided to help his rabbit to jump over the last hurdle at this end of the course.

The young lady seemed to have a little better luck to get the rabbit to the end of the hurdles. The noisy heating unit is inside the chain link fence at the very right side of this photo.

Rabbit jumping is a very popular activity in Europe. On October 30, 2011, the first European Rabbit Jumping championship was held in Wollerau, Switzerland, see

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/g/a/2011/11/04/rabbit_hopping_championship.DTL&object=%2Fc%2Fpictures%2F2011%2F11%2F04%2Fba-67089288_0504489324.jpg

In the next episode of the CBS program Amazing Race, rabbit jumping is one of the "Road Blocks", Road Block is a task that the contestants have to perform before they can get the clue to move to the next destination. If you are interested, make sure to turn on CBS on Sunday night at 8 pm, 7 pm central to see that episode.