Cuteness is a quality relative to scale.
The University of Victoria is taking a soft approach to get rid of a warm and fluffy problem — the hundreds of feral bunnies that call the campus home.
School administrators are looking for someone to trap and sterilize about 150 of the rabbits and put them up for adoption as part of pilot program.
The rabbits, which come in a variety of colours, appear to be the pet store variety, not the wilder Peter Cottontail sort. According to university staff, however, the lives of the estimated 1,500 campus rabbits can be dangerous, difficult and short, with cars, dogs and the occasional sadistic student bringing things to an abrupt end.
They are also a nuisance, digging holes in sports fields and gnawing their way through gardens in surrounding neighbourhoods, according to Patty Mack, president of the Mount Tolmie Community Association.
"They are awfully cute, but it has gone to the point where there are just way too many of them," Mack said.
The rest.
And if the foster-bunny plan doesn't work, we are approaching the season of tailgate cookouts...
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