University of Victoria Campus Home to Thousands of Rabbits
The Montreal Gazettereports that there is a series bunny problem at the University of Victoria. There are estimated to be 1,500 to 2,000 feral rabbits living happily on the campus grounds. University officials claim the rabbits have inflicted $100,000 worth of damage over the last three years. Some students think the university is secretly plotting to kill the bunnies.
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.
"The University of Victoria has been for years conducting a misinformation campaign in order to justify their killing of abandoned domestic rabbits on campus," said animal rights activist Roslyn Cassells.
"Betrayal is the order of the day at the University of Victoria, where a large-scale nighttime shooting of over 1,000 abandoned pet rabbits is imminent," Cassells said in a recent e-mail to the media.
Here is a short video of some of the rabbits that live on the campus.
