University's 1600 rabbits headed to sanctuary

[Liberal_in_LA]

The campus, located in a sprawling, parklike setting in the provincial capital, is littered with them. Descended from abandoned Easter pets or escaped from medical labs (as one of the more extreme theories goes), the rabbits laze outside classrooms, chase one another around the parking lots, nibble on grass outside the library. They also burrow under the sports fields, are regularly flattened by cars, devour tender new plantings at a pace that would have given Mr. McGregor a coronary, and litter the lawn with droppings.

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At long last, it does appear that there will be a happily-ever-after ending for the rabbits. On August 30, a judge lifted an injunction on trapping and moving the bunnies out. Sanctuaries in British Columbia and in Texas have agreed to take nearly all of the university's 1,600 rabbits. Trapping resumed within hours of the order's coming down.

Last week several rented trucks with crates of bunnies on board pulled out of a campus parking lot. They were the first batches headed to veterinarians for spaying and neutering and then on to their new homes. Once all are "fixed" and tagged, 100 or so will be returned to the campus, where they will live out the rest of their natural lives.

http://chronicle.com/article/Bunny-U/124360/

[MineralMan]

1. What freaking University?

For pete's sake. Put some information in there, OK, or provide a link to the source. Are we supposed to guess?

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. sorry. Link fixed. U of Victoria

[MineralMan]

4. I clicked the link. It's a subscription only site. I doubt they'd enjoy

the fact that you copied subscriber-only content and pasted it here. DU is already being sued by one newspaper company. Please don't subject the site to further legal risks. Thanks.

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. Thanks for for your usual acidic response. I'll delete part of the content

[MineralMan]

6. Look. I care about DU. First, you didn't include the location

information and gave an invalid link. So, after you corrected that, I clicked the link, only to find that the material was not publicly available, and that you had copied stuff that the publication charges for. It's just not right. It's a cute story, but not worth risking DU for. I'm just asking that you and others try not to put this website at risk for legal trouble. Acidic? Yes. I was being acidic. Thinking before you post is always a good thing.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Where is this? The link just takes you to a new post page. n/t