Dear Rabbit

FINALLY finished this oAo

[SasukeTheEmoKid]

this reminds me of a documentary i once saw of a lioness who lost her cub. she was so heartbroken from her loss that she separated a baby antelope from its herd and started treating it like it was her baby. unfortunately the baby antelope didn't make it either.

[waffledemonoverlord]

Ah, I still remember when the comments of this video weren't all about Beastars.

[ericwilliams]

Is anyone else on a nostalgia trip watching all of these old, amazing animations they worshipped years ago? I remember seeing this when I was like 13-14 and I still stan it ngl

[sarahshock]

After reading through the comments a bit, here's what I have to say:

Most of the time, for wolves, the drive for companions and the drive for food work together. Wolf packs work together to bring down bigger animals. Because of this, both drives are likely strong in wolves.

This animation shows us a strange, though believable, scenario where these drives are brought into conflict. A lone wolf in the middle of winter is probably desperately hungry and lonely. This causes the wolf to see the rabbit not only as potential food, but as a potential companion. That's why it's sympathizing with the rabbit and is hesitant to kill it. Wolves want to comfort their friends, not kill them.

The rabbit could be either friend or food, but obviously, it cannot be both at the same time. As important as friendship is to a wolf, food is simply more important, so the wolf's hunger wins out against its loneliness. At least, until the wolf sees the dead rabbit, at which point, _grief_ takes over.

I wonder if the wolf will eat the rabbit. Maybe it will, and it will realize that it cannot be friends with rabbits. We all saw how terrified that rabbit was. There's no way any other rabbits would be friends with a wolf.

Or maybe the wolf won't eat the rabbit. Maybe its emotions will remain too much of a mess for it to bring itself to kill anything else, which will result in it starving to death.

[highcat]

Here's one thing I noticed that made this video sadder:

The reason the wolf had to kill the rabbit and not some other prey was because it was the winter. That rabbit was probably the only thing that wolf would have to eat for along time.. which is why even for as long as it tried to stop itself from hurting that innocent rabbit it had to. Cus it needed to survive. Instincts never care about what you want, only what you need.

I hope this writting was okay english is not my expertise

[Tarathathewookiee]

Rabbit is drawn in a very Watership Down style. This is well made.

[drawingdragons]

Even though he knew he would eat the rabbit, he saw himself in the rabbit, they were both fighting to survive the winter, and by laying down next to the rabbit and making its end swift, he made its death a respectable one

[pjm]

this absolutely destroyed me as a kid and i just wanted to say this. i’m using my old account from when i was a child and i just need to tell you that this video and your channel in general has had such an impact on me from the beginning. i grew up with animation and art, and this video has always held a special place in my heart even now. i’m hoping to be an artist myself and i can’t thank you enough. i know i’m not the only one, you’ve inspired so many people :)

[Truffvan]

This video can be viewed many ways than one.

1. it’s a wolf ashamed of his instincts and he tries to befriends the rabbit. The thing is, he’s a predator and he hunts pray. You can’t stop instincts. After killing the rabbit he felt so ashamed and carried it with him. Looking at the poor rabbit, he feels nothing but guilt for something he can’t control.

2. It’s about a toxic relationship or friendship. The toxic person hurts their partner too much mentally and physically. Although the toxic person still cares, they can’t control what happened to their past which affected them so negatively. It’s not an excuse though, they still had a choice and what they did is unforgivable and that’s on them. Could be from home life and/or something traumatic happened to them. So much damage happened to their relationship or friendship, the dead rabbit is symbolizes how their relationship or friendship will never be the same. Thus, the toxic person feels guilty and ashamed of their bad habits and problems. Knowing that it’s all their fault.

There’s probably more views on it but these are the two main ones that I think of :)

[Medicswhre]

I haven't seen this in 4 years and I finally came back to this, MY HEART HURTS-

[rainywolf]

A wolf hating himself for his own instincts when fighting them fails? I see a man who struggles with his anger

[pigen]

I remember seeing this as a young teen and absolutely bawling my eyes out, finally found it again after many years and it strangely enough still makes me teary eyed

[mehikakkei]

Is anyone else thinking that this has a way deeper meaning, like instinct will always come up if someone is starved? Idk, probably just me but my mind is telling me that It's different, like the land scape in the animation is a tundra or something and there is little to no food in tundras which starvation takes hold of a human and it reverts to survival instincts instead of reason and kills another to eat. Idk, probably just my mind....

[lilywarriorcats]

So basically this is about a wolf that didn’t want to be like all the other wolves killing poor animals but he ends up killing the rabbit and feeling sad about it after

[ceydameep]

This is so sad the wolf just wanted a friend.. But he could not stop

[kaylabarrieault]

The reason why this almost made me cry was because in the end, the wolf feels bad for what he did. He didn't mean to kill the rabbit, he had to because he had no choice. The message of this is empathy. ❤️

[Ivosferatus]

Who else thought this was going to be a friendship story about a wolf and a rabbit surviving the cold??

[CRRNCRW]

When so many people are talking about the people talking about beastars you can’t even find the comments about beastars

[elliseee]

No one:
2016: *omg it's zootopia*
2020: *omg it's Beastars*

[chaotic_star]

I haven't seen this video in so long and it still surprises me at how amazingly made it is