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New people definitely looked at me differently after I acquired a rabbit, but it wasn't a huge change. More of a curiosity.
Maybe if the rabbit had destroyed my carpets and more of my apartment like his did...
And it is probably also stranger for a grown man to have a fuzzy bunny than it is for a young woman.