h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I spent a good portion of yesterday running around my parents garden trying to catch a domesticated bunny.

Is it the latest addition to the family? No. Unless it's a really fresh meal for Misty our remaining cat, which she has no interest in as she never went bunnying and as it's old will now rarely leave the house.

No this poor white and brown bunny was apparently set free near our house by some git who didn't want them. Yes, there wasn't just one unwanted bunny, there were lots of them and this little one managed to avoid capture by the SSPCA a week ago.

Seriously, in this day and age, where we're bombarded with advertising campaigns telling us about abandoned animals, about how to save ones we find or deal with ones we're no longer are able to cope with, how can people still abandon animals?

It's appalling behaviour by someone who obviously couldn't be bothered getting their animals neutered or take them to a shelter once they were born.

And now I know who's been munching on my beetroot plants!

*cold, not old...though she is that too and deaf, which can be entertaining when you sneak up on her.

Bunny got munched by one of the cats who live near by...my little sister saw it all happened and poor things feeling upset and guilty.

At least we tried to help it.

But you did your best. They're difficult things to catch. Had a similar experience when I was staying with friends down in Cornwall a couple of years ago.

I figured it would happen, there'd been a cat stalking about while we were trying to catch it. It's just a shame that my little sister had to watch it happen.

It was one thing when our cat Dizzy used to bring in rabbits, they were wild and plentiful - though still not nice having him slamming it against your bedroom door in the middle of the night! But this poor little sod should have had some little kid playing with it and loving it.

People suck.