Rabbits are popping up all over Western Washington these days. ... “Simpsons”-puffy up top, flat and sooty below, like cotton balls that have been used to swab a wet ashtray.

That's the question Molly Prottas often gets when people first see Wally, her beloved 10-month-old Angora rabbit with big, fluffy ears being likened to wings and pigtails.

"I've never seen a situation with rabbits before where they are a public health threat." Commonly called "rabbit fever," tularemia can cause skin ulcers, swollen and painful lymph glands ...

He’s 4 feet, 3 inches from his wiggly nose to his puffy tail, and weighs in at 50 pounds. And while he’s not quite the size of Wallace and Gromit’s were-rabbit, he’s still young — and ...