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HPRC members, and Polish breeders in general are very lucky to have
people like Bobby and Carol George in our lives. They are dedicated
to serving the clubs they are a part of and to promoting and
bettering the American Polish Rabbit. Bobby, as you know, is our
original, enthusiastic, and competent Secretary/Treasurer/Newsletter
editor AND webmaster! I am just the secretary and Newsletter editor
of a small local club of 20 members, and especially where the
secretary work is involved, i dont do half the job Bobby does with a
club of over 100 members! I know that everybody appreciates the
monthly newsletters. I told a friend about HPRC and she couldnt
believe that we get such nice newsletters EVERY month! Carol
currently serves as not only a director of HPRC, but of the APRC as
well! This is really an accomplishment, especially considering the
difficulties they have had with APRC in the past. Bobby and Carol are
also big supporters of 4H and other youth.
Bobby comes form Ypsilanti, Michigan. The youngest of a family with
five kids, he had three brothers, and one sister. Yet his sister had
4 brothers and no sisters! ("I love confusing my kids with that
one!") Anyone who knows Bobby will tell you that he has quite a
sense of humor.
Growing up his family raised swine, beef, and poultry for 4H and FFA.
Bobby did well in poultry, winning the Reading FFA Poultry Contest
one year. This win came with a title! By sorry coincidence it
happened to be the year that "Roots" came out, and Bobby
instantly became "Chicken George". Bobby was at one point
the VP of his 4H club.
Bobby's parents divorced and his dad remarried a lady that loved him
like her own. Bobby was in his late teens/early twenty's at the time
and she meant the world to him. His natural mom's boyfriend looked
like Ernest P. Worrell's twin. "I mean a dead ringer!"
(Worrell was best known for his "hey Vern" commercials and
later the Ernest movies.) Bobby's dad passed away in '92 and his mom
in '98.
There was a tradition in Bobby's family: everyone married someone who
went to the same high school as themselves. His mom and dad did. His
brothers and their wives, and his sister and her husband all carried
on the tradition--that Bobby broke!
Bobby feels blessed to have been able to marry his best friend in the
world, Carol. He has five children from a previous marriage, Miranda
Kay is 25, Daniel Luke is 23, Jocelyn Nicole is 21, Robert Joseph II
is 18 and Jonathon Kyle is 14 years old. Carol also have five
children. Congratulations are in order to Bobby, he is expecting is
first natural grandchild in August or September, whose mother is Jocelyn.
Bobby currently works as a press helper at Moore/Wallace in Angola,
IN. According to Bobby, "If you have ever shipped a package
anywhere from any shipping company you have used the products we
make." Currently we they getting more involved in the dreaded
License Plate stickers everyone has on the license plates on their
vehicles. Bobby has worked there since 1989. For 7 years prior to
that he was a lead man in a bakery in Fremont that supplied every
MacDonalds in the state of Michigan (and other areas) with hamburger buns.
Bobby raised Havanas and Florida Whites in the late '80's. When a
friend suggested Polish to him, he wasn't impressed with the little
white rabbits he saw at the shows. When almost 5 years ago Bobby felt
that he and the boys needed a hobby, and he chose rabbits. He
originally intended to have a few holes with meat rabbits in them,
"just to entertain me and the boys". Bobby began to turn
the old horse barn into a rabbitry.
At this point Carol wanted no part of the rabbits. Then one day when
dragged to Logan Cage, while Bobby priced cages she started to pet
the hollands and dwarfs...it went from there! Bobby tells us that now
Carol all but lives in the barn, and practically does when the does
are kindling!
The Georges continued to spend all their free time working on the
barn. They separated the barn into two 20x20 rooms, and made a wood
floor. While the hard work is what Bobby remembers most, his boys
can't forget the ancient fossilized horse manure they had to remove!
(Bobby has pictures of the StableRoom Rabbitry on his website, www.thestableroom.com)
Finally they were ready for rabbits. When veiling the ARBA website,
they linked to the APRC site and the then APRC message board.
Contacting Danielle Owrak of Minnesota, they drove almost to South
Dakota to bring back seven Polish rabbits. And what special rabbits
they were! One of them was Trevor's Charisma, a doe that i am sure
many of us have in our pedigrees. She had taken BOB youth at the '98
Polish nationals, won 3 BIS's and had 13 legs. There was another one
that had 13 legs and a few BIS to his name. The youngest of the
original seven, Mystic Mountain's Junior, currently has 11 legs and a
number of BOB's that he didnt get legs for, all won with Bobby and
Carol. Three of the original seven are still with us; Charisma passed
away in May.
It was on the trip to get the first Polish that their rabbitry was
named. Bobby told Carol that by the time they got back she would have
to have christened it something. Thus, The Stable Room Rabbitry, now
ARBA registered, was named.
The Georges remember their first second place! they were so thrilled
to take 2/5 under Stephen Turnbull. But, at the very next show they
got their first BOB...being the only ones with Polish there. Now, 32
BOB's, 33 BOS's, and 186 legs later, the StableRoom Rabbitry holds
over 150 tattooed Polish. How many varieties does the average Polish
breeder raise? 4? 5? 6 maybe? Bobby and Carol raise eight! (so they
like to joke.) Black, blue, chocolate, broken, REW and BEW... Carol
loves working with her lilacs and can't wait till they are
recognized. And they had a Chestnut crop up when working on their
"Project BEW" !
The Georges are members of the ARBA, APRC, the ALL-4-ONE 4H Club, and
Buckeye Polish Rabbit Fanciers since 2001. They are also a member of
the Indiana State RBA, the Michigan State RBA, charter members of the
HPRC, and their local club is the Cal-Bra-Hill club in Michigan.
Bobby is the membership chairperson for ISRBA.
Some Special StableRM's bunnies include...(thanks for sharing these!)
It was kindling time, and Carol was making her rounds. She heard a
squeak and found a little broken baby on the floor 12 feet away from
the nestbox. Carol named the doe Squeak, and she grew up to become a
Grand Champion.
Once a doe tore an ear off of a kit during birth. When the baby grew
up a little they showed it to a friend who came over to help evaluate
their rabbits. However Bobby held it posed so that the ear didnt
show. The friend loved it, was certain it was a Best of Breed animal.
Then Bobby showed him the ear... It was a buck, they named it Sue,
and it lost a piece of his ear. (Bobby assures me that Country
Western fans will get it...even if i dont!)
Martina (named after the masculine female tennis player) started out
as a middle of the road show buck, but when she decided she was not a
male (passed two judges at shows) she was an outstanding top of the
class doe!
The Georges homebred rabbit with the most legs is StableRM's Beau,
who has won 10 legs. Last month they won an all-breed BIS with a blue buck--congratulations!
On a personal note, i have to thank Bobby/Carol for being so
supportive and encouraging to me. You guys have really been great. I
am sure they are like this with everyone, like when Ben Hibbs came to
get some Polish from them. Ben and his mom drove 10 hours one way
just to get some StableRM's Polish, and they thought that he deserved
something outstanding! He went home with a little doe that went BIS
the next week!
When asked for a favorite rabbit joke, Bobby supplied me with this
one, which he blames on Pat Glenn. :)
Widdle Wabbit
A precious little girl walks into a pet shop and asks, in
the sweetest little lisp, between two missing teeth, "Excuthe me,
mithter, do you keep widdle wabbits?"
As the shop keeper's heart melts, he gets down on his knees
so that he's at her eye level and asks, "Do you want a widdle white
wabbit, or a thoft and fuwwy bwack wabbit, or maybe one like that cute
widdle bwown wabbit over there?"
She, in turn, blushes, rocks on her heels, puts her hands
on her knees, leans forward and says, in a tiny quiet voice, "I don't
think my python weally gives a thit."
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