Well, I figured later that the animals might have known him by reputation, if not personally.

“Cheers! And thanks again …..”

Glad I could help.

Cheers! And thanks again …..

>‘But I promise you – if anything ever threatens you from any direction, it’ll get to surprise it’ll NEVER forget.

Should be “get a suprise” rather than “get to suprise”

>‘Tomorrow’s another day,’ she said to him soothingly she combed his tail.

Should be “said to him soothingly as she combed his tail.” or “said to him, as soothingly she combed his tail.” depending whether the words or the combing were being done soothingly. The word “while” could also be used in either version.

>But he kept very wary eye on Elvis

Should be “Kept a very wary eye”

>A yearling with small, the velvety horns

The “the” is out of place.

>And then 15 or 20 rabbits charged through the clover and long grass, sweeping the rabbit and Elvis along with them.

Not so much a typo as an unclear bit. The above implies that Elvis and the rabbit went with the others, however later it says “Elvis sat there”, implying that he DIDN’T go with the others and the rest of the story supports this.

>clouds of bird of every shape and size, or running, hopping and flying as fast as they could go.

The “or” in “or running” is out of place. Also, it seems like it should be “clouds of birds” rather than “clouds of bird”, although I’m not enough of a grammar nazi to know if “clouds of bird” is incorrect, it just sounds like it to me.

>when a tremendous, earth shaking THUMP!

Shouldn’t it be “when there was a tremendous, earth shaking THUMP!” or “when a tremendous, earth shaking THUMP! was heard.”? Something along those lines…

>‘Elvis, I’ll play with you anytime,’

Over-thinking time: How does the rabbit know his name if all the creatures run away at the first sight of him?

Over all, a nice story for kids. I probably would have liked it quite a bit when I was younger.

My mother had two dogs (she had more than that, but only two at the time), one was a good-sized white pomeranian and the other was a small, black chihuahua. Each night before going to bed, my mother would take them outside to go to the bathroom. Since this is the suburbs, there are various wild animals around. One night she took the dogs out and was watching the pomeranian when she turned around to see the chihuahua nose-to-nose with a skunk. The skunk wasn’t scared because the chihuahua was smaller than he was. Of course, as soon as the pomeranian noticed the skunk he rushed over and started smelling the skunk’s back end. Naturally this startled the skunk, who turned around to see what was behind him. As soon as he saw the pomeranian, which was bigger than he was, he lifted his tail and sprayed the poor chihuahua before running off.

Thanks, Dorothy. And Cheers!