To neuter, vaccinate and treat any illnesses usually costs rescue groups between $200 and $400 per rabbit. The groups' biggest needs are money and homes and facilities to house the rabbits while they are being treated before adoption. “Those threats are more than hot air,” said Warfel, whose group is working with East Coast Rabbit Rescue. That caused the rescue groups to speed up their efforts to round up the animals.

After The Associated Press reported earlier this week about plans to rescue the rabbits, making them national celebrities, threats were made online to shoot, poison or otherwise harm the animals. The rabbits are the descendants of a group that a backyard breeder illegally released when she moved out of the neighborhood two years ago. “They bring a lot of joy to the neighborhood.” Most of them just hop right up to people, seeking food. Still, he is a bit disappointed that the rabbits can't stay - his two schnauzers love playing with them. It is understandable that this is not the right environment for them,” Trebowski said Thursday night. “It is important that they are not euthanized. They are captured using traps, hands and, sometimes, nets.

Theirs is one of the groups that has begun capturing the estimated 60 to 100 rabbits that have populated the suburban Fort Lauderdale neighborhood so they can be put up for adoption.

He calmed down once he was assured that Dylan Warfel, Tina Crossgrove and Kristina Gertser were from Penny & Wild Smalls of South Florida. He feared the domesticated bunnies, who are not meant to live outdoors, were being taken away to be killed. (AP) - Dan Trebowski was angry when he saw people in front of his Wilton Manors home trying to capture the lionhead rabbits that have populated his neighborhood.

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