The whole thing started the day they discovered that Momo had got out.
Despite it being a much loved pet, the wire mesh door hadn’t been latched properly on the rabbit’s cage and they couldn’t find it anywhere in the garden. The girl had called it Momo because of the dark patches on either side of its nose, looking like a moustache. It was decided that the animal must have got out during the night. Knowing how much the animal meant to his daughter, with the help of others, the father soon had posters going up around the town.
The following morning a more urgent incident had been given top priority by the local police. Earlier that day a young boy had gone missing from the main shopping centre in town. His mother had arrived at the shops soon after they opened and was selecting an item from a shelf when she noticed her five-year-old was nowhere to be seen. After searching the store and checking outside and around the carpark, she informed the store manager, who then rang the police.
Later that morning’ some distance away, a pensioner had been taking his usual stroll around a nearby park. He was taking a break by sitting on a low wall, when he saw something quite unusual. It was a child walking towards him, carrying a rabbit! The boy was upset because he was lost. As far as the old man could make out, from what the boy was trying to tell him between sobs, was that he had found the rabbit near the entrance to the shops. Like the boy, the man had seen the posters. The funny markings on its face was confirmation that it was definitely the missing rabbit. He had tried to pick it up, but it had hopped away. He had followed it for some time before he was finally able to catch it. Unhappily, by that time, he was lost.
The old man listened to the boy’s story with great interest and half an hour later, the old man, along with the boy holding the rabbit, walked into the town’s police station.
It has to be said that not every story ends that well.