Welcome to Friday Face-Off, our weekly random video competition that pits two of the Internet’s most wildly popular videos against each other for the sake of determining which is the world’s most popular video of this week. Please submit any videos to BurnsyWL@gmail.com and if your video wins, you’ll receive a brand new With Leather t-shirt.

We’re going back to the Friday Face-Off roots this week, and we’re pitting two ferocious wild animal videos against each other. The first video is actually one person’s heroic effort to train the most terrifying animal in the whole universe – the common kitten. Make sure to double up on your adult diapers while watching this video, because you will urinate from fear.

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Welcome to a brand new weekly feature here at With Leather, the Friday Face-Off, in which we take two of the week’s best random videos and pit them against each other to determine which is the champion. Yes, it is that simple, and yes, we are way too excited about it. This week’s inaugural installment finds us examining two animal videos that have both been deemed excellent by millions of people that I just made up. The first video features a pet rabbit that opens letters for its owner with perfect precision.

I don’t get much mail, but I would really like a rabbit that could open my letters. If I had one, I might actually look at my bills before throwing them out.

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Back in May, I introduced the world of With Leather to the latest Swedish sport to win our hearts – Kaninhop. In case you don’t remember this Pulitzer Prize-winning post, Kaninhop is competitive rabbit hopping. That’s right, people train their rabbits to jump over obstacles. And before we could even finish trying to reach through our screens and rub those fuzzy widdle bunny wabbits, something remarkable happened – someone organized a world championship.

Last Sunday, the inaugural European Rabbit Hopping Championships were held in Wollerau, Switzerland, and mad bunny hops enthusiasts from across the motherland gathered to prove that their long-eared fluff balls were the best. In the end, the big winner was Lada Sipova-Krecova of the Czech Republic, marking the first time that someone from the Czech has won, well, anything. At least I’m guessing that. Maybe they won independence or something like that, but come on… rabbits.

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I couldn’t find any images from the movie I was thinking about, so I used this picture of Ben Roethlisberger instead. Close enough!

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Leave it to the Swedes to not only make affordable dorm room and bachelor pad furniture, but it seems they’ve also invented the most adorable form of animal competition not called the Puppy Bowl. Known as Kaninhop, this Swedish sensation involves bunny rabbits show-jumping as if they were miniature fluffy horses with big, floppy ears.

But the bunny in the box, Daily Mail…

Over the past few decades to sport has spread far from its Scandinavian homeland and clubs have now sprung up in several other European countries, the U.S., Canada and even Japan.

Rules vary from country to country, but generally the more jumps a rabbit clears the higher its score. There is also sometimes a time element to competitions.

You also lose points if your rabbit starts a bunny orgy in the middle of the course, but you gain points for how many female rabbits your male impregnates. It’s pretty complex. I just wish we had a video of bunnies competing in Kaninhop set to Joe Esposito’s “You’re the Best”…

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