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Káno has a slight hoarding problem. Just a slight problem. It's not like he carries around about 300 pounds of weaponry, food and potions on a daily basis. And it's not like he has about 1,000 more pounds of random junk sitting in a chest at home. The only time it becomes a real problem, he reflects, is when Lydia visits his house near Falkreath. And wow, when she does…
He didn't know that someone's face could turn that particular shade of red, but apparently about five minutes of yelling without stopping for a breath will do that to someone. He's rather impressed, actually. Even The Companions don't turn that shade, which is impressive, considering the sheer amount of hijinks that he manages to get up to while in Jorrvaskr. He remembers, offhandedly, the time that he dropped bottle of skooma (quite by accident), in Vilkas's chambers. Vilkas was convinced that it was him, but as he had no evidence, the best he could do was hide it, and glare at Káno for months afterwards. Káno avoided him for a bit, and after a couple weeks, nobody was speaking about the "Case of the Mysterious Appearing Skooma", though he will occasionally hear the name, specifically when Farkas has been in the mead hall.
The hoarding thing, on the other hand, is not resolved as easily. Lydia seems to finally have reached her breaking point, and she is threatening to kick him out of his own house if he doesn't sell some of his stuff. Of course, the fact that the other day, Lucia somehow managed to completely mutilate the training dummy, (which, he notices, only Lydia uses), with one of his weapons has nothing to do with that. Right now, thankfully, only Lydia and Lucia are typically at home when he's in Whiterun, since he takes Faendal with him. Unfortunately for Lydia, who seems to enjoy peace and quiet, he's seen Lucia taking interest in some of the sketches of Frostbite spiders in his notebook. There's absolutely no way that he's ever going to let one of those monstrosities live in his house, though, so she has nothing to worry about. For now. He might just allow a mudcrab though…
Surprisingly enough, Lydia doesn't have anything to say when Káno lets Lucia keep the rabbit, but personally he thinks that it's less that she has become more tolerant, and more that she has a soft spot for fuzzy animals. After all, in a place like Skyrim, small, fluffy (alive) animals are fairly hard to come by, and don't live long. There's some sort of unspoken code where nobody kills a rabbit or a fox unless they're really hungry, and nobody touches the tame animals. (The last one might have something to do with the fact that attacking an animal is liable to get you killed in Whiterun. Apparently it's worth capital punishment?).
So Lydia lets Lucia keep the rabbit, and if Káno ever walks in on her petting it and cooing to it, he keeps his mouth shut. Oddly enough, after that, she doesn't seem to have a problem with his weapon hoarding. He wonders why.