According to a recent article published by the Washington Post, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has mandated that Rabbit owners must develop a disaster plan for their small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha. Experts were unable to tell us why they are placed in this protected status. It has been suggested that in 1912 they were reclassified from the despised Rodentia order to a new order Lagomorpha. We were unable to get a copy of the fourteen page mandates. It is suggested that the regulations need to be reviewed and I would speculate that they will need to identify tolerance doses for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Radiological rad half-life measurements. More research will be needed to address Bordetella bronchiseptica and Eschericchia coli as well as diseases unique to rabbits such as rabbit haemorrhagic disease and myxomatosis. Contrary to popular opinion the aggressive behavior in rabbits are not associated with rabies, there are no rabid rabbits.

 The Environmental  Protection Agency is currently studying what impact these new regulations will have on the environment. The Institute of Health in collaboration with the Department of Health and Human Services are working on a new counter measure drug to change the breeding habits of the Lagomorpha. A Bunny morning after pill is showing promise. Customs and Immigration has doubled its efforts to secure the borders against illegal-Pentalagus, Bunolagus, Nesolagus, Romeroloagus, Brachylagus, Slvilagus, Oryctolagus, and Poelgus. There is some concern that the Western Jack-rabbit is potentially able to jump the newly installed fences.

There seems to be little hope to capture and license the approximately 50 million non-American Logomorpha which threaten to consume more than their share of precious stocks of lettuce and carrots.

New reports suggest that during 2013 Easter Season that organized illegal Oryctolgus (European) Lagomorpha captured the parade market with customs and immigration officials looking-on. They seem to be immune to the traditional predators.

Animal rights mobs gathered across the nation to protest what they see as “BunnyPhobiaâ€. Some say that what the nation needs is a free immigration policy to admit “Gay Lagomorpha†to address the American rabbit overpopulation. Some radical elements in Congress want to push a “hare today gone tomorrow†policy. The courts are hopelessly locked on the Lagomorpha-Homo-Sapiens marriage issue.

Solving these problems is not for the faint of heart. If the Department of Agriculture is this sensitive to the plight of our fuzzy friends perhaps the future looks bright for all us Mammals.