Mystery as world's-biggest-rabbit contender dies on United Airlines flight to O'Hare

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43. I really don't think United's at fault here...

Simon's breeder said she's had rabbits on planes before and this never happened.

But how *old* were those rabbits? Had they been on car rides before going on a plane?

What's more, according to HuffPo, Simon was 50 pounds.

It's one thing for a rabbit that's 4'4" to weigh that much, but at 3 feet, that could be too fat, rendering the rabbit's heart weaker than average.

She said the vet said he was "perfectly healthy" but I think some vets out there have given up on telling owners that they're turning their animals into fatasses (according to my Grandma, the vet's okay with the family pug being 30 pounds)

Here in this video, the breeder says that another rabbit named "Jeffery" (also a product of Darius) is "next in line to hold the title" but NOW supposedly it was the very young Simon, who didn't even exist when this video was uploaded :

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I wouldn't go as far as to say she's abusing her rabbits, but considering how up in age Darius is, perhaps she's eager to hold onto the spotlight of having the "biggest rabbits ever" and is cramming more calories into Darius's litter than what is optimum.