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The urban bunny is on the rise, according to “anecdotal evidence” and the Sun-Times. One homeowner estimated a 25 percent increase, although it is not clear how he arrived at this estimate.
While the rabbits are cute, they’re no fun if you’re a horticulturist. The Lincoln Park Conservatory horticulturist Steve Meyer hasn’t been able to grow northern sea oats, “‘Black-eyed Susans, coral bells, rosebushes, Japanese maples, miniature elms, flowering quince, [or] hemlocks,’” because all these fat fucking bunnies keep eating them. Goddamn it, bunnies—grow your own food.
Besides being fat, other factors also contribute to a spiking rabbit population. Last year’s mild winter, better enforced leash laws, and the prevalence of landscaping are all helping rabbit populations grow. Experts also noted that people don’t like to shoot rabbits anymore, and no one around here really cook them, either. Now that Glen Close has been shot, bunnies aren’t at risk of being boiled, so the cottontail fuzzballs are free to roam the Chicago area, forming street gangs and eating cabbages.
Chicagoist has seen a bunch of urban bunnies, but our favorite was at the Home Depot outdoor garden area. There always seem to be a dozen security guards around Home Depot, and they were all on the case, furiously barking into their walkie-talkies that a “little rabbit is on the premises. Repeat, a little rabbit is on the premises.”
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"All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and when ever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you: digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed".
Uh...don't know what the guy above me is going for but I work on the 1.5 floor of a small office building in Lake View near the Vic. And every morning for the past week a bunny has been hopping out from the ivy covered fence next door through our alley parking lot to another home across the alley.
Cut the hare into small convenient-sized joints. Fry these in hot butter until nicely browned, and with them 1 onion, sliced, and 3 ounces of bacon, cut into dice. Take out the hare, etc., while you brown 2 tablespoonfuls of flour in the butter. Add gradually 1 1/2 pints of water or stock, and, when it is smoothly mixed, put in the pieces of hare, 6 or 8 peppercorns, the rind of 1/2 lemon, 4 or 5 cloves, and the gravy from the dish in which the hare lay. Simmer gently for an hour or more. Put the pieces of hare into a dish, strain the gravy over them, and garnish with sliced lemon. When the hindmost part of the hare has been already served, the inferior joints are excellent cooked thus. The head should be split in two, and the liver cut into 2 or 3 pieces. Sufficient for three or four persons.
Bunnies! In NYC, I think I've only seen a bunny in Riverside Park, but I could have been hallucinating. However, I do know that Amy Sedaris is a big fan of bunnies in the apartment.
Please use stock in that gravy, not water. You will be so much happier.
I live near the Elks Club Headquarters at Diversey & Lakeview, and there are always 3-4 rabbits munching the grass on the big, fenced-in lawn there.
Super,
Now I'll have a limited supply of food for my new overpriced restaurant I'm planning on opening in Wicker Park: "Hossenpfeffer"
The 'burbs have more of them this year, too. I see 3 or 4 of them every day, not including the one that has pretty much taken up residence in our yard the past two years. Fun to watch, but did she have to chew 10 new hydrangea bushes down to the ground over the winter.