Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe PALMER, Alaska, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Neighbors of a Palmer, Alaska, couple are unhappy with the dozens, if not hundreds, of rabbits they care for on their four-acre property. Four years ago, Leon and Anna Calton kept several rabbits in pens, but a dog broke into the pens and several rabbits escaped, but not before the dog had lunch with a mother rabbit and 11 of her babies, the Anchorage Daily News reported Monday. Advertisement The Caltons let the five or so surviving rabbits run free, but they fed them and provided shelter. Since then, the handful of rabbits have thrived and reproduced -- two rabbits can become a dozen within a month. Anna Calton said the rabbits have a better chance of escaping predators if they are free. But neighbor Cheryl Milbrett said the rabbits are luring lynx, fox, owls, eagles and coyotes to the neighborhood -- and there's even been a bear sighting. Alaska has a year-round open season on domesticated rabbits and Milbrett said they hear shooting constantly. "... It's a residential neighborhood, people shooting .22s isn't a good idea," she said.
