Gloucester roundabout rabbit hunting fears spark police check for snares

“The city council has supposedly had reports of a rough sleeper on the roundabout. I wonder if Frank went there to find the bunnies...and fell asleep!”

“leighlane, you're right. Even Frank now says that he has seen fox tracks in the snow on the roundabout. What does he think that the foxes are doing there, if not hunting the bunnies? That's what happens - foxes eat bunnies, bunnies breed some more, and by the summer they will be back to normal numbers, even if some of them get myxomatosis.”

“Stuntgirl, that's what I wondered, but today's Citizen has him giving advice again as their resident 'wildlife expert', so I really don't think that they are laughing at him. Perhaps they are laughing at us, though.

Qwerty, they didn't take your good advice.”

“For goodness sake, and I am trying very hard to suppress my urge to use foul language......STOP GIVING THIS IDIOT ANY PUBLICITY.
He is turning the county of Gloucestershire and the local populace into a laughing stock.
If you were head of a major company and read some of these ridiculous headlines, would you want to invest in this area?”

“Oh Frank, are you sure the rabbits have not been hunted by 'big cats' of some mythical sort??”

“Isee in my local co op they have started to sell rabit!”

“Pengi - 'pie-filling on legs' is my new favourite phrase, thank you for that.

As for Frank - he's making my adopted county look stupid, as are TiG. Are they that desperate for easy copy?!”

“I can picture Frank standing in the middle of that roundabout with 300 rabbits standing behind him giggling. Every time he turns round, they run so they're always just out of sight.

Poor bloke - out-smarted by pie-filling on legs.”

“I've got a lurcher and to be honest, I don't think a lurcher could get up the speed to catch a rabbit in that small space. That's unless the rabbits there have mixi in which case something needs to be done about them before they get disorientated and get hurt on the road.

We counted 4 bunnies on bunny roundabout on Saturday so there are still there!”

“You don't see many rabbits in the winter for the same reason you don't see many other wild mammals. They reduce their activity to conserve energy during the cold weather and when food is less abundant. I know it sounds obvious when you think about it, but if all you ever see is captive animals like pets, sheep or cattle, who have no control over whether they're outdoors, then it is quite easy to mistake inactivity for death (or indeed hibernation; rabbits don't hibernate but they do sleep a lot in winter).

Wait until it snows a lot and chuck a lettuce on the roundabout. You'll find rabbit tracks through the snow soon after.

Urban foxes are an interesting exception to the rule. You do tend to see those almost as much in winter as you do in summer. It could be argued that this is because there have been many generations of urban foxes who have now come to expect good pickings from household bins throughout the winter. However rabbits don't rifle through bins and there haven't been enough generations of rabbits on Bunny Roundabout for them to get used to people are chucking lettuces for them throughout the winter. Also, most of the photos of rabbits on Bunny Roundabout are of them dozing in the summer sun; in the winter they are more likely just to bite off as much food as they can and then scurry back down underground where it's warmer.”