My Rabbit bike lane & mascot rabbit

[shootingstar]

well, I would like to christen our city's first downtown separated bike lane, Rabbit Lane:

This sweetie bunny, I've encountered when out for a walk on evening of snow blizzard @-31 C degrees. I think it's a pet rabbit that's been lost/abandoned. Our area/parks also have large wild rabbits that one can see hopping along by another bike path

But this one is right by the bike lane. Poor thing, was cold and stared at me mutely on that evening. It didn't bother to run away from under the evergreen tree on a lawn. I have since seen this bunny on 2 different evenings later...by the bike lane. In the past 2 days, the night winter temp. have plunged to -40C degrees with wind chill.

Merry Christmas and Happy holidays!

[thekarens]

Someone needs to take that poor bunny to the spca.

[shootingstar]

A good reason that people should never release or lose their pet.. most likely this bunny will not be caught for spca. This creature is running around..in downtown where there busy roads. There are parks nearby.

[PamNY]

There are rabbit rescue organizations. I don't know how feasible it is to trap a domestic rabbit, but can't hurt to ask, especially since you're seeing this one in the same area.

[Eden]

It may not be domestic… (though it not running away may indicate it is), but rather the descendant of previously released domestic rabbits… there was a whole big colony of them over in Bellevue for a while until they were relocated for construction. They were most definitely wild, but looked like pet bunnies because most of their parents were. I've also seen probable domestic and part domestic bunnies living in the colony by the bike path a little south of here too.

[shootingstar]

I've seen also such domesticated looking bunnies, Eden when we were out cycling in the CAnadian rockies on a bike path in a ski resort town. This was in the summer. Maybe because prairies and foothills expose such creatures since there are simply less trees and bushes for them to hide.

Anyway, 1 wild rabbit type in our area looks like this (see below), which I saw from 7 ft. away when I took this photo ...in a different part as I was cycling home from work. I have visions that these rabbits aren't bad kickers. They have huge hind legs. Wild rabbits are part of the local natural lore...it's in some local artwork.

I know on Vancouver Island, they've had to do a rabbit cull because of problems. In our area ...there are occasional coyote wandering around in the parks. Then 100 km. north, begins bear (moose, big-horned sheep, elk, etc.) country, etc.