# Violent bunny question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 3, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-bunny-question/498590 "2009-06-03T15:46:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-bunny-question/498590/1 "2009-06-03T15:46:39Z")
I live in a very rural area so I have got all kinds of wildlife in my back yard, rabbits, all kinds of birds, squirrls, skunks and occasionally deer. This morning I was at the kitchen window looking out and from the left side of my vision I see a rabbit come tearing across the yard and ram a dove and just send it sprallling. The bird regained its composure, rose and flew to another part of the yard and the rabbit sat where he had butted the dove and looked around as if trying to find anything else to ram. My question is…Is this normal behavior for bunny rabbits? Should I post a sign saying, “Beware of brutal bunny”? This was not a jack rabbit. While it had a tan tint, it had smaller ears, and chubby body. I cannot tell you if it was a buck or a doe. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-bunny-question/498590/2 "2009-06-03T15:52:38Z")
[Bun-bun](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_of_Sluggy_Freelance#Bun-bun) has escaped! Run for your lives! ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-bunny-question/498590/3 "2009-06-03T15:55:07Z")
Sounds like Charley, the seemingly cocaine-fuelled lop that I used to have! That rabbit was afraid of nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-bunny-question/498590/4 "2009-06-03T15:57:52Z")
General Woundwort, I presume. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-bunny-question/498590/5 "2009-06-03T16:05:24Z")
It’s got huge sharp… it can leap about… LOOK AT THE BONES! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-bunny-question/498590/6 "2009-06-03T16:22:12Z")
It was looking for Jimmy Carter. ---
**Author:** ![Svejk\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@Svejk\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Svejk_1)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-bunny-question/498590/7 "2009-06-03T16:23:34Z")
Is it [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3Hg) one? ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-bunny-question/498590/8 "2009-06-03T16:27:27Z")
Isn’t unusual aggression a symptom of rabies? ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-bunny-question/498590/9 "2009-06-03T16:29:53Z")
Squirrels at my place will leap at crows if the crow is eating something the squirrel would like. They don’t ram into them (the crows here are bigger than the squirrels) but it’s enough to startle the crow and get it to fly away in a hurry. Maybe the rabbit was hoping the bird would drop something and was looking around to find it? In any event, no one who has read Watership Down can believe that bunnies are just peace-loving, happy-go-lucky critters. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-bunny-question/498590/10 "2009-06-03T16:30:07Z")
It was Little Bunny Foo-Foo. He couldn’t find any fieldmice, so he went after a dove. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-bunny-question/498590/11 "2009-06-03T16:35:26Z")
I used to have a pet female bunny who became more ill-tempered and aggressive when she was mentstruating. A bunny expert has since informed me that I would have had fewer behavior problems with her if I’d had her fixed. ---
**Author:** ![emmaliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emmaliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emmaliminal)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-bunny-question/498590/12 "2009-06-03T16:35:55Z")
FWIW, my house rabbit used to headbutt things she didn’t like, especially the baby gate that separated her from my bed and computer desk. When I moved in with my husband and his cats, she would rush and growl (yes, really, bunnies can growl; it sounds kind of like Marge Simpson disapproving of something) at the cat food bowls when we set them on the floor, scattering the cats, just to make sure there was nothing she wanted in the bowls. There never was. Mind you Bunny weighed about six pounds, and the cats were 10 and 14 pounds respectively. Long story short: Some bunnies are naturally aggressive. We think of them as timid, but many of them aren’t. ---
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-bunny-question/498590/13 "2009-06-03T16:50:48Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > General Woundwort, I presume. Or perhaps an entirely more sinister figure. ---
**Author:** ![This\_Just\_In\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@This\_Just\_In\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_Just_In_2)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-bunny-question/498590/14 "2009-06-03T16:53:41Z")
Follow. But. Follow only if ye be men of valour, for the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived. Bones of full fifty men lie strewn about its lair. So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-bunny-question/498590/15 "2009-06-03T17:16:42Z")
So weird…I love this board ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-bunny-question/498590/16 "2009-06-03T17:21:55Z")
Sometimes baby bunnies hide ‘in plain sight.’ I wonder if this was a parent bunny scaring a dove that got to close to a baby? Rabid rabbits are very rare, because if they get bitten by something with rabies, they usually also get killed and eaten at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Chief\_Pedant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@Chief\_Pedant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Pedant)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-bunny-question/498590/17 "2009-06-03T17:32:51Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Isn’t unusual aggression a symptom of rabies? Rabies would be highly unusual in wild lagomorphs. Of course, so is a bunny charging a dove. Was the bunny nesting? Apparently rabbits usually just drop some pellets to mark territory, but can become quite upset. [http://language.rabbitspeak.com/rabbittalk.html](http://language.rabbitspeak.com/rabbittalk.html) Is this thread related to the PMS/menstrual cramps thread? In any case, to be on the safe side, **TV time** , kill it next time you see it. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-bunny-question/498590/18 "2009-06-03T18:07:27Z")
> [@black\_rabbit](#): > > Or perhaps an entirely more sinister figure. Fu Inle! Is it really you?! ::shriek:: Uh, I mean…er…you’re looking good! 🙂 I’ve seen your username around a lot but I never made the Watership Down connection before. Also, do rabbits menstruate? I thought they went through estrus? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-bunny-question/498590/19 "2009-06-03T18:26:17Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > It’s got huge sharp… it can leap about… LOOK AT THE BONES! Tsk, tsk, tsk. _Nineteen_ minutes. What _is_ this place coming to? ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-bunny-question/498590/20 "2009-06-03T19:38:09Z")
Another [agressive rabbit video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ez5QPW-ku4). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-bunny-question/498590.md?page=2)