Velvety ears, wiggly nose — and BIG teeth

Sometimes in life you have to step up and admit you were wrong.

Which is what I'm doing right now.

People, I was wrong about the rabbits.

Last month I wrote a column mocking American children for being afraid of the Easter Bunny.

"What do you think (he's) gonna do?" I taunted.

"Hop into bed with you and nibble your ears off?"

And then I cackled maniacally.

Hahahahahah! Haha!

Take that, you scaredy-pants American children!

WELL! A number of readers took me to task. Remember the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"? they asked.

That rabbit did way more than nibble your ears off. Dude. That rabbit bit your entire head off, AND he sounded like a can opener while doing it.

Then these readers shared their personal stories of rabbits gone wrong. My favorite story comes from a former neighbor, Rob Collins, whose family hand-fed a small litter of rabbits around the clock for days after the mama rabbit got killed by a Great Dane.

Well, two of the baby bunnies grew up to be very grateful to the Collins family. AS WELL THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN. It's not every family in America who would get up in the middle of the night to feed rabbits that aren't even related to them.

But, one of the bunnies wasn't the least bit grateful. Like the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog, that bunny (in the words of Tim the Enchanter) had a "vicious streak a mile wide."

How vicious was the Ungrateful Bunny?

One morning, after hopping around on the grass, the Ungrateful Bunny suddenly charged one of the Collins' kids like a rabid dog, latched onto her pajamas with his Bunny Jaws of Death and would. Not. Let. Go.

And of course, who can forget the swimming rabbit that attacked President Jimmy Carter?

There Carter was, just sitting in his canoe like any other American president, when suddenly he saw a rabbit swimming straight for him.

Carter's press secretary, Jody Powell, recounts the incident in his book "The Other Side of the Story":