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Is there an exact count of how many Bonanza episodes feature Hoss and Little Joe going into some kind of business that fate and/or their father has to bail them out of? Well you can add this one to the bunch as Dan Blocker and Michael Landon go into the rabbit raising business after acquiring two white rabbits from Chubby Johnson and Dub Taylor.

Rabbits do what they're best known for and pretty soon they're overrunning the Ponderosa and there's not enough cages that the boys can build to hold them. But as it always does they get out from under though it costs them.

Funniest part of the episode for me is Victor Sen-Yung as Hop Sing who being the Cartwright cook sees only one thing valuable in these rabbits.

Will Hoss and Little Joe ever learn to just stick to the Ponderosa?

Little Joe and Hoss are talked into buying a business (raising rabbits for fur) by two con-artists. They still haven't learned that if it was that great of a deal the con-artists would be doing it themselves.

Regardless, the outcome is predictable. I do find these types of episodes a nice change of pace. I prefer shows with a little variety rather than being the same story with a few details and names changed.

Another plot line is selling 1/3 of their business for a nice birthday present for their father. Hop Sing adds a nice contrast as we all know what he wants with the rabbits. Add in a new horse with a fear of rabbits and we have plenty of conflict, even though a horse with a fear of rabbits seems like a big stretch.

The gradual accounting of the money by Ben, near the end of the episode, was entertaining. We leave the show with the boys chasing the recurrence of the fearful horse.