Bunnies too fertile for their own good
Times Colonist
Monday, October 01, 2007
In the midst of the catastrophes of the world, the rabbits of UVic are small potatoes, but they are nonetheless a real ecological problem, whatever the sentimentalists who feed them carrots and lettuce may think. Those who blame UVic for failing to deal sensibly with the rabbit problem are entirely right.
Yet the principal blame must fall on the rabbit owners who release their former pets on the university grounds and the pet stores who sell the rabbits in the first place. Unless the sale of rabbits capable of bearing young is brought to an end -- either by forbidding their sale altogether, or by allowing only the sale of spayed rabbits -- it's clear that there will be no permanent solution, for the removal of today's rabbits will only make room for their abandoned replacements. Some legislative body must step forward to resolve the problem.
John Tucker,
Victoria