Stop rabbits by stopping grass planting

RE:Rabbits reappearing in Kelowna parks


The one thing that continually brings rabbits back to the same areas within Kelowna is the food. If people don’t want to see rabbits hopping around the Enterprise Road area, or any other area in the city of Kelowna for that matter, one thing has to happen. Stop planting grass! Grass is an eco unfriendly thing. It wastes a lot of water, poisons our lake with fertilizers and pollutes the air with lawn mower exhaust. Not to mention the waste of oil and gas to run these useless machines.

If all the vendors along Enterprise road were required to get rid of there grass and were forced to plant some type of rock instead, at least you would see many rabbits roaming around in the area. Not only that, the rock would last a very long time with very little maintenance. The sale of rabbits for pets should be banned or licenced. Licences for a rabbit should cost $1000 for each spade or neutered rabbit and there should be some type of law that prevents rabbits from being released within a 50 kilometer radius of any city.

When a licenced rabbit dies, it’s body must be reclaimed by the city for a $250 rebate. If the rabbits body is not reclaimed for whatever reason after 12 years, the licenced owner should be forced to pay another fine of $500, or prove the rabbit is still alive at that age. Rabbits do not make good pets and Daddy has to learn that. I feel so sorry for all the rabbit’s predators that are starving right now, because the City has taken away there food supply.


Ron B. Hudson