Save Toby in the Post

By now, you're all familiar with Save Toby . If not, check it out now. Come back when you've been learned.

Now, Toby's hit the Post, here.

"To date, if the site's claims are to be believed, more than $18,000 has been raised to rescue Toby from the crockpot. But verifying that figure is impossible, and the site could be nothing more than a darkly comic and rather inspired way to make some quick cash. This is not the first send-money-or-Fluffy-gets-it scheme in history. What's certain is that a) Whoever runs this site owns a very cute bunny, b) the site is selling more than 90 Toby-related products and c) thanks to some careful planning, the identity of the bunny's keepers is a well-kept secret.


Oh, and d) some animal-rights people are really really peeved.


"We've received hundreds of death threats," says a guy who calls himself James and who readily admits that James is not his real name. In response to an e-mailed request for an interview, he called Wednesday afternoon and would say only that he and his business partner are in their twenties and live on the East Coast.


Are you really going to, you know, eat the little fella?"