HOWARD LAKE, Minn. — At 16, Jessica Bradley spent hours researching rabbits. Everything had to be just right. “They’re lionhead bunnies,” Jessica says as she lifts from a playpen Franklin and Ducky, ...

HOWARD LAKE, Minn. — At 16, Jessica Bradley spent hours researching rabbits. Everything had to be just right. “They’re lionhead bunnies,” Jessica says as she lifts from a playpen Franklin ...

She hugs the bunny and rocks back and forth, saying all she needs without saying a word. It’s just as Jessica imagined it when she first dropped soft rabbits into a conversation with her mom.