35 thoughts on “Rabbit stampede!”

        1. You’ve obviously never had to deal with marketing, reality is never allowed to intrude.

  7. Like the sign once seen in a butcher’s shop: “Watership down. Read the book, seen the film now try the pie!”

  9. This is so terribly sad. People turning their pet rabbits loose to fend for themselves when they (the owner) no longer wants to be responsible is not doing the rabbit a favor. Now this pet rabbit will have to figure out how to find food and water and avoid predators and find shelter. For most rabbits turned out of house and home they will have a drastically shortened life and one that is faced with fear and starvation.

    Humankind can be so cruel.

    Sorry, this is a “pet” peeve of mine and while I love seeing rabbits and owners enjoying their rabbits I cringe every time I hear of someone turning their pet loose knowing what this animal will have to endure.

    1. I agree. I have not picked up on the place in Asia where these rabbit herds are. Nor have I heard of this problem before (outside of Australia, where it was the wild variety, of course).

      1. Yes, people don’t realize that a bunny lives a long time and doesn’t want to be shoved in a cage and ignored. There has been a lot of awareness raising about this recently & that’s how I came to know this information so at least the word is getting out there. It’s a shame pet stores aren’t doing more to prevent these purchases but I guess that’s counter to being a store.

    2. I have a feeling that this video was taken at Okunoshima Island in Japan, the whole island is a rabbit sanctuary. The island had a darker WWII history once upon a time, but it has never been inhabited by humans since then, so I don’t think they were abandoned in the conventional understanding of the term. this is just what happens when you have seven decades of rabbit population growth with no natural predators.

      1. That was my first guess as well, even before I started the video.
        But then almost every video on youtube of people being overrun by hungry hordes of rabbits was taken at Ōkunoshima.

      2. Ah, thanks for the backstory. My enjoyment of the cuteness was being hampered by worry for the poor rabbits, too. Not to mention the ecosystem being saddled with such a horde.

  13. Back around 1958, near Wichita Falls, TX, driving at night we encountered a herd of maybe a hundred jack rabbits that a pack of coyotes had rounded up. I had never heard of this kind of activity and do not know if it has been reported in the literature.

    I unknowingly walked into a state level rabbit show. I was amazed and fascinated at the wide variety exhibited there, from midget to giants, in all color patterns.

  14. That video has been removed because of copyright issues. Too bad.

    Susan Freiman

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