Website demands cash to save bunny from pot

ANIMAL rights activists are often derided as ‘bunny-huggers’ — well-meaning but foolish people — but one canny website operator in the US may have proved that there is something in this term.

Outraged pet lovers have threatened an American website where the owner has said he will kill and eat his pet rabbit Toby unless he is given $50,000 (€38,000) by June 30 and may well have handed over large sums of money.

The owner of savetoby.com, which includes pictures of the wheat-coloured pet, claims so far that he has made thousands of dollars.