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“It can multiply and get out of hand very fast if it’s not remedied,” Alamed said.īy Erdogan’s count, at least 46 stray rabbits have already been documented across Vermont this year, including nearly half in Burlington. And with rabbits' gestation period only being about 30 days, unspayed rabbits are able to reproduce rapidly, which could quickly make the stray rabbit issue in Vermont much worse. Owner-surrenders have been frequent in Alamed’s eight years at the organization, but the stray rabbit problem appears to be fairly new. The Humane Society of Chittenden County has received an increasing number of calls from the public about the stray rabbit population around Burlington and Winooski, according to Erin Alamed, the shelter and volunteer director for the Humane Society of Chittenden County, which also takes in dogs, cats and other pets. “There's lots of data for stray cats and dogs,” Erdogan said, “but not so much for rabbits.”Įrdogan is not alone in noticing the trend. So she took up the charge, tracking stray rabbit sightings as part of her efforts to help save them.