Were you given a rabbit's foot for luck when you were a kid? Are they illegal now?

[bobbieinok]

[Historic NY]

1. Nope they still have them.

[link:https://www.carnivalsource.com/products/rabbits-foot-keychain?]

[SeattleVet]

7. Those are made of fake fur, as stated in their description.

I think the OP was talking about the real ones we used to get in the 'olden days', which are still available but not nearly as popular as they once were.

[Historic NY]

9. They have those too

[link:https://www.etsy.com/listing/733423233/lucky-rabbits-foot-real?gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_us_e-home_and_living-home_decor-taxidermy_and_curiosities-bones_and_skulls&utm_custom1=e4c63119-ab68-465c-a916-6f38e5052a33&utm_content=go_1844702805_70809541438_346429647245_pla-306097971099_c__733423233&utm_custom2=1844702805&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3NzW_7Wq6QIVmYrICh15PwHTEAQYASABEgK3f_D_BwE|]

[abqtommy]

2. Yup. And it was a valuable education for me when it was pointed out that the rabbit's foot wasn't

very lucky for the rabbit...

[Chainfire]

5. That is the way I saw it even as a kid

[Aristus]

13. For real...

[Brother Buzz]

3. Yeah, and I still have it

It's on a lanyard with my skate key.

[bobbieinok]

6. Was the key for skates that you fastened to you shoes? I loved my skates like that

[Brother Buzz]

12. Yes, but they only worked with leather soled shoes

I had to my dress shoes because they were useless on my regular everyday sneakers.

I took a cold chisel to one of my skates and made a skateboard out of it. I was awestruck we I saw what they were doing in Los Angeles in 1959 and said , "That's for me".

[bobbieinok]

14. My er everyday shoes were before sneakers were very common

[Brother Buzz]

15. Oh, I had everyday leather shoes early on....

That is, until I discovered the tidal mudflats. My mom weighed the economics of leather shoes and salt water; sneakers became the thrifty solution.

[mucifer]

4. I had a blue one. That was a really weird idea.

[dhill926]

8. so did I....

and why do I remember that? Blaming the virus....

[Historic NY]

10. You can buy frozen rabbit in the supermarkets..

tastes like chicken, thats where they get of the feet.

[kimbutgar]

11. Yes I found one recently that I had as a kid that was still in good shape

but I remembered they were outlawed in California in the 80’s.

[csziggy]

16. Yeah - a guy that worked for my Dad raised rabbits on the side

He gave each of us kids rabbit's foot key chains. Same time, he gave Mom a frozen rabbit which she cooked up for a Sunday meal. It didn't take much for us kids to realize that all four of our key chains could have come from that one rabbit. I didn't have rabbit again until last year while we were in the UK.

The same guy had been sold a pair of chinchillas to raise for fur. He finally decided that chinchillas raised in Florida would never have a thick enough coat to be fur worthy. Dad got the chinchillas from him and we had them as pets for several years. There was one breeding pair and one baby. They eventually escaped. If chinchillas are found wild in Central Florida, they could be descendants of those guys!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

17. Still have it dangling from a pocket zipper on my old motorcycle jacket.

[yellowdogintexas]

18. We had a cat that was obsessed with them

It started with one that our daughter won at some sort of party. That cat would play with it for hours, hockey pucking it under the washer/dryer and refrigerator. Well we found them in those 25 cent vending things at KMart for a while but they sort of disappeared.

My husband found a novelty place that would sell them in a gross, so he bought one. When we got them out of the box, that cat went completely bonkers. We had to hide them from him. We decided he liked feeling the bones or whatever they used to fell like bones.

He would pace back & forth in front of the washer yowling when he knocked one under there. I have never had a cat that enjoyed a toy as much as he enjoyed those rabbit's feet.

[bobbieinok]

19. What a fun memory!