nineveh_uk

That reminds me of the scene in Hilary McKay's The Exiles in Love, where they see rabbits in cages in a French market and are horrified and decide to buy one to liberate it. The stallholder says "shall I prepare it for you?" and Rachel imagines him getting it a nice box and some straw only then he gets out a big knife and there is horror all round. I don't remember what happens to the rabbit. I don't think they end up with it back with Big Grandma at the cottage owned by the Frenchman she knows from her distant past and his unaccountably furious wife.