EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. (KY3/Gray News) – At the East By West shop in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, business is “hopping.”
Mochi and Nacho, shop owner Yume Leavell’s bunnies, have never been a “hare” late for work.
Leavell has had bunnies in the shop for 22 years, ever since she got her first ones as gifts.
“I didn’t know what to do with the rabbits, and I work a lot,” Leavell said. “So I brought them to work so we could bond and play with them and stuff. And before you know it, they started pulling things from the counter.”
Instead of getting mad, Leavell got an idea: Put those bunnies to work!
Her bunnies sit at the shop’s checkout. Leavell will hand them credit cards or change. They grab them from Leavell, turn, and put them down for the customer. Leavell then hands the bunnies a paper bag that they grab, turn, and give to the customer.
Leavell says there’s not much training involved; the bunnies kind of “play it by…
