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Advocate's Kem Sypher on the Tragedy of 18 Rabbits  A story of
18 rabbits and the people in charge. Kem Sypher is a treasurer
of Portland's Rabbit Advocate's, an organization that has
recently been in the headlines when some rabbits were rescued
from a hipster butchering organization and left at the home of a
Rabbit Advocates member. Kem is also a volunteer at the Oregon
Humane Society in NE Portland. He introduced himself to a group
of volunteers yesterday, as a member of Rabbit Advocates, and
stated that his group has recently been in the papers for, as he
put it, "stolen rabbits." That is all that he said about his
organization, before continuing to talk to the group of
volunteers about proper rabbit care. Kem told the group of young
volunteers that rabbits should eat hay and pellets, with
occasional greens and carrots, but "only occasionally." Kem was
wrong about that statement. There ar