Thousands of Feral Rabbits Plague Canadian Campus

Montreal Gazette: There's bad blood on the bunny front at the University of Victoria.

As the university struggles with the question of what to do with between 1,500 and 2,000 feral rabbits β€” which are chewing and digging their way through the campus grounds β€” emotions are running high, fuelled by accusations of misinformation from both sides.

Leaders of the protect-the-bunnies movement claim the university is secretly killing rabbits at night and that there are "poison boxes" on the grounds. Bunny supporters claim that officials have only paid lip-service to trap and sterilize programs as they always regarded a massive slaughter as the final solution.

May 10, 2010 at 8:01 am - A News
Dateline: Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

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wohlfguy   May 10th, 2010 - 8:30 am

Time for the holy hand grenade

Mike   May 10th, 2010 - 8:41 am

This illustrates the liberal mindset perfectly. They can’t figure out how to handle bunny rabbits but they want to direct policy towards a Nuclear Iran. It would be laughable if it wasn’t going to lead to the deaths of untold numbers of people.

SubjectofUSSA   May 10th, 2010 - 8:41 am

Night of the Lepus

just hook the towns power to the rail road tracks and wait

charles farley   May 10th, 2010 - 8:52 am

The answer seems to be rather simple, round up the bunnies and take them to the polar bear’s area near Churchill. See which group survives. This is called natural selection. You’ll have either fat happy polar bears or some big-assed bunnies.

Angela Richter   May 10th, 2010 - 9:01 am

Hossenfeffer anyone? Sheesh, they are rabbits, hardly endangered.

Not Kennedy   May 10th, 2010 - 9:05 am

Rabbits? They are worrying about a delicious food source while Arizona is being overrun by feral Mexicans! I’d guess that Canada has a few other problems more pressing than raising rabbits for fun and profit. Have they taken a census of their Muslim immigrants?

dan   May 10th, 2010 - 9:16 am

A innocent release of a Bob cat would take care of the problem rather quick !!!!

claspur   May 10th, 2010 - 9:27 am

If you couldn’t figure out why those young men wrote that book, FARK, now you know.

Puck30   May 10th, 2010 - 9:44 am

I have a solution.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXEvZUhc_cc

lastchip   May 10th, 2010 - 9:46 am

What a parade of beta males and winy broads. This is a new worthy crises? Complete with secret sources and leaked memos…more proof western culture is doomed. A rabbit is a rodent, what do they do when they have a rat problem up there? Are they collectively stupid enough to think they can chop the nut off hundreds if not thousands of rabbits and collect the population?
Here’s your solution, free of charge. Southern fried rabbit is yummy. Kill the rabbits and feed em to the homeless. The rabbits are gone and the poor get feed, THE END.
V

1GooDDaDDy   May 10th, 2010 - 9:48 am

“Release the hounds!!!!!!!”

Not Over.

bitterweed   May 10th, 2010 - 9:55 am

Better feral rabbits than feral politicians..

Actually..no problem..kill the little b*stards..and don’t suffer the idiots..

Hare's Looking at You   May 10th, 2010 - 9:56 am

Vasectomies for the male rabbits. What’s this, why not hysterectomies for the female rabbits, instead.

You can’t just haul guys off the street and start giving them vasectomies.

Maybe the University should simply issue free government condoms to these damned rabbits and order them to put them on. Either that or announce a one family, one bunny policy. That should do it.

After all it’s apathetic Canada we’re talking about; up there governments get away with anything!

Sue B.   May 10th, 2010 - 10:11 am

Feed the hungry.

Wayne Tomas   May 10th, 2010 - 10:12 am

My two dogs would take care of the problem soon enough.

edword   May 10th, 2010 - 10:59 am

GOD have I had enough of “sensitive white males”.
I say snip THEIR balls off–that is if they have any.

What a bunch of pussies!

Dave   May 10th, 2010 - 11:08 am

Horrible!,meanwhile we ignore illegals pouring into our country like the oil from the Gulf well that rape,kill with drunken driving,rob and become parasites on our healthcare system but we cant be bothered to touch them.

DannyBoy   May 10th, 2010 - 11:11 am

Hell thats nothing we’re trying to get rid of 1500 blood suckers in the white house….rabbits are nothing….remember to.
V O T E in November

Christopher   May 10th, 2010 - 11:15 am

HAHAHA Is this a monty python re-enactment?

NOQTR4TR8RS   May 10th, 2010 - 11:32 am

@ edword May 10th, 2010 – 10:59 am

+1

My 20 ga. Browning with #6 shot would address their problem nicely. Stand aside, hanky wringers, and let real people do what needs to be done.

JGWingfield   May 10th, 2010 - 11:37 am

This would be so funny if it weren’t true. These people want to raise money to give rabbits vasectomies? Have they lost their minds? I agree with the above poster, a bobcat would make a nice addition to the campus.

BeEtLjOoZ   May 10th, 2010 - 11:46 am

Think of all the people you could feed in Haiti. Fried rabbit is quite tasty.

hmmm   May 10th, 2010 - 12:03 pm

Feral? All animals that live in the wild are feral. This entire story is misleading. Rabbits are doing what they are suppose to do in nature eat, poop and have sex.

Not Bunnies   May 10th, 2010 - 12:41 pm

These are not rabbits, they are Pakis here illegally.

Rabbit Surgeon   May 10th, 2010 - 12:45 pm

I am offering breast implants to all rabbits getting vasectomies at a nominal extra charge. For twenty dollars more, I will fit them in ballerina costumes as they leave and provide life-change counseling.

Commieobamie   May 10th, 2010 - 12:58 pm

Taste like chicken, and fur makes good warm gloves and coats.

john galt   May 10th, 2010 - 1:20 pm

What a total bunch of idiots. Let people take them home to raise and eat. Good source of lean protein, higher than chicken and beef. Good thing environmentalists don’t play polo.

Dr. Demographic   May 10th, 2010 - 2:12 pm

Forget the rabbits, give the marxist Democrats free vasectomies and they’ll be gone in two generations.

It might not even be that expensive. A lot of these Soros marxists are mutations like Barney Frank and won’t need vasectomies.

launchsite   May 10th, 2010 - 2:23 pm

release packs of wild dogs

Robbie   May 10th, 2010 - 3:08 pm

Cost of one round of 22 caliber ammo – 4 cents.

Cost of commitee to decide what to do, lawyers to represent both sides, government beurocrats to design a policy, company to trap the animals, equipment to trap the animals, delivery to the vet, surgery on the stupid rabbit, shelter and drugs after the operation so the rabbit doesn’t suffer, transportation back to the college, damage to the landscaping,……….you get the idea.

Our morals, economies, and countries may be collapsing around our ears but, by golly, we’re going to be politically correct. Are there any REAL MEN left in the world of politics today? Solve the problem morons!!!!!

Stumpy   May 10th, 2010 - 4:53 pm

We could export coyotes from Arizona or the 4 legged kind Montana to help our Canadian brothers.

Alex   May 10th, 2010 - 5:36 pm

I actually go to UVIC and some of these rabbits might look cute, but they are wild animals and can get sort of aggressive. A few years back a rabbit bit a guy on campus and the guy instinctively smacked the rabbit away. Somebody got a video of it and the local PETA people harassed the guy non-stop and published his home address on their website. Classy stuff.

Mark L   May 10th, 2010 - 7:00 pm

One word: hassenpfeffer.

Patty   May 10th, 2010 - 8:15 pm

Send in the terriers!

Rudini   May 10th, 2010 - 9:55 pm

Which one is Benjamin?

Jen   May 11th, 2010 - 12:27 am

I love rabbits as pets, but I say, “Kill them” Are you all sane? These are not native to this continent. You have removed the predators. If you are going to be all politically correct, then you’ll have to get their permission to do the surgery. Good luck with that.

What is wrong with society   May 11th, 2010 - 2:21 pm

Oh my gosh people it is an animal, eat it. Are you so brain washed by grocery stores that you don’t know where you food comes from. If we were starving we would eat what God gave us. The scriptures never mention that we need pets to be spiritualy edified. Animals were made for man to survive just like trees for fruit and etc.

teen scout   May 11th, 2010 - 2:24 pm

oh better idea. Teach teen boys how to hunt and shoot. Eating for dinner is meat. Have we lost our survivor instincts. We are man on earth to survive off of what God gave us. Does landscaping realy mean anything when we die.

Elmer Fudd   May 11th, 2010 - 6:01 pm

What is it about right wing wackos that require them to be brutal and mean-spirited? It is a natural instinct for people to want to protect cute, cuddly, furry little animals. This doesn’t make them soft in the head or anywhere else. Your vicious responses are predictable. Why don’t you bile spewing jerks enlist and try your hand going hand to hand with our enemies if you are so brave? Or is bunny-beating the limit to your fighting abilities?

On second thought…DON’T! You dopes would just create more enemies and that’s the last thing that we need right now.

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