Sara's overjoyed as Bugs is home safe and sound

Oct 6 2008 by Alison Rennie, Paisley Daily Express

A RABBIT has been reunited with its relieved owners after it made a hop for it.

We told how the rabbit – now known to be eight-month-old Bugs – escaped from his back garden last week and popped up a few doors down in Nan and John Lafferty’s garden.

They took it in, fed it carrots and lettuce, and called the Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SSPCA) who came to collect it.

Owner Katrina Milne and her daughter Sara, four, had put up a missing poster in their local shop and asked neighbours to keep a look out.

And good news travels fast because no sooner had Bugs popped up in Nan’s garden, than a neighbour passed on the news to Katrina who went to the SSPCA’s Cat and Dog home in Cardonald to collect it.

She said: “My daughter is so happy to have him back. He’s tried to escape before but I’ve always managed to catch him.

“He was only in the garden for about half an hour when I saw he was gone.

“We put the sign up in the newsagents and asked some neighbours to keep an eye out for him.

“I don’t know the neighbours who found him but the news was passed on to me and I’m so grateful to them for looking after him.”

And Bugs will need to get back to his babies as he’s recently become a dad of four with Katrina’s other rabbit.

Nan Lafferty who took Bugs in, added: “It was a lovely rabbit and enjoyed lying beside my heater.

“I’m so pleased he’s been reunited with its owners and we have a happy ending.”