{"id":29182,"date":"2025-11-15T14:20:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T19:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=29182"},"modified":"2025-11-18T20:08:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T01:08:39","slug":"why-are-there-so-many-bunnies-around-the-campus-is-it-legal-to-hunt-them-asking-for-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/11\/15\/why-are-there-so-many-bunnies-around-the-campus-is-it-legal-to-hunt-them-asking-for-a-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are there so many bunnies around the campus? Is it legal to hunt them? Asking for a friend\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AW111525-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AW111525-1.jpg\" alt=\"Why are there so many bunnies around the campus? Is it legal to hunt them? Asking for a friend...\" class=\"wp-image-29180\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Why are there so many bunnies around the campus? Is it legal to hunt them? Asking for a friend&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My assistants tell me there&#8217;s an excess of bunnies all over the Boston area. Rabbits breed like&#8230; well, rabbits (<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/audubon-cottontail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bit.ly\/audubon-cottontail<\/a>), which may explain why there are so many. It&#8217;s illegal to hunt within 500 feet of a dwelling without the owner&#8217;s permission (<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/kill-the-wabbit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bit.ly\/kill-the-wabbit<\/a>), so it&#8217;s unlikely your friend can realize their Elmer Fudd dreams at BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My assistants tell me there&#8217;s an excess of bunnies all over the Boston area. Rabbits breed like&#8230; well, rabbits (bit.ly\/audubon-cottontail), which may explain why there are so many. It&#8217;s illegal to hunt within 500 feet of a dwelling without the owner&#8217;s permission (bit.ly\/kill-the-wabbit), so it&#8217;s unlikely your friend can realize their Elmer Fudd dreams at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/11\/15\/why-are-there-so-many-bunnies-around-the-campus-is-it-legal-to-hunt-them-asking-for-a-friend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why are there so many bunnies around the campus? Is it legal to hunt them? Asking for a friend\u2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29194,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29182\/revisions\/29194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}