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Pet rabbits in parks?

  • 19-07-2011 9:04pm
    #1
    starviewadams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,116 ✭✭✭


    Was up for a stroll in Corkagh Park in Clondalkin a few minutes ago and came across a brown and white rabbit like the kind you'd see in pet shops,in amongst a group of normal colored brown rabbits grazing away on the grass.

    I figured it might have been an escapee from a back garden or an unwanted pet so didn't think much of it,but on my way back home passing by another spot where there's usually clusters of rabbits,I saw two black and white spotted rabbits grazing away with the normal brown rabbits again.

    Is this a fairly common thing nowadays in parks/woodland etc?cos I've never come across this before!


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  • #2
    Half-cocked
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,319 ✭✭✭Half-cocked


    Seems to be becoming more common. There are some motley coloured rabbits out on Dalkey Island too.


  • #3
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    Common enough near urban areas, someone releases an unwanted pet, which lives long enough to breed.
    They would be at a disadvantage though, being fat and slow. Survival of the fittest takes over eventually and they disappear, at least until the next time.


  • #4
    cuddlycavies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 970 ✭✭✭cuddlycavies


    Cplour mutations are common wher rabbits are plentiful. Black, being the most common.


  • #5
    kildare.17hmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,615 ✭✭✭kildare.17hmr


    i saw 2 black rabbits last year around where i live, this year iv seen probably half a dozon spread out through about 80 acres of fields. saw 2 young grazers both black together last night about 8pm


  • #6
    Thoie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,344 ✭✭✭Thoie


    About 4 years ago a pet rabbit became wild near where I live. Spent a few months trying to catch it from time to time before I gave up. (S)he was very distinctly coloured, and I was sad when I stopped seeing him around the place - assumed that the local rabbits had beaten him up, stolen his wallet and then handed him over to the foxes.

    Then, the following spring, there were suddenly 4 unusually coloured baby rabbits...

    By now the baby rabbit population seems* to be roughly 2:1 locals to new colours, and I'm assuming they're all interbreeding happily.


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