Jackrabbits had gray-brown speckled fur, and absurdly long, veiny, black-tipped ears, and the long, gracile limbs of a desert animal. Glimpsed loping around through the brush, eating most anything—cactus, sagebrush, beer cans, used tires, old barbed wire maybe—jackrabbits were lopsided, picturesque animals, though their bulging yellow rodent eyes rivaled a lizard’s for blank stupidity. Until now, Jane had never seen a jackrabbit that looked really upset.