Your morning adorable: Angora rabbit is a furry soccer phenom

Oct. 12, 2009 11:42 AM PT

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We’re certainly familiar with animals that like to chase balls and Frisbees, but usually, those animals are dogs. Every so often, though, we run across a champion soccer player of a different species entirely. We’ve seen a soccer-playing lamb and even a horse that plays what we’ll call a modified version of the sport.

But a rabbit? Now that’s new to us. Meet Momo, an English Angora rabbit whose stylish markings are rivaled only by his stylish soccer moves.

In other words, the David Beckham of the pocket-pet set.

-- Lindsay Barnett

Video: esheep1012 via YouTube

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