The Big Catch

It's spring, and for Mike, that means one thing.  Catching all the rabbits that dare hop across our yard and terminating them.  He'll sit in the chair by the back door and watch for them, only to hop up and dash into the garage after his bee bee gun upon spotting one.  It's been going on for years.
"Your never going to be able to kill off the entire rabbit population,"  I tell him.
"Well, I'm certainly doing my part!" he tells me proudly.  It brings him so much joy that I haven't stopped him from doing it until recently.  The girls and I were playing in the back yard when we noticed a small bunny only about a foot away from us, frozen in place. 
"Is it dead?" Sydney asked.
"No, it's just scared," I told her. 
"I'm going to go get it a carrot," Briana told us as she ran into the house.  When she came back out, she threw the carrot at the bunny and it ran away. 
"I'll bet that was the Easter Bunny!" she exclaimed, "He's probably checking up on us!" 
I assured her that she was correct, and we've been watching for the Easter bunny to come back ever since. 
That night, I saw Mike dashing into the garage after his bee bee gun.
"WAIT!!!"  I hollered at him. 
"If you kill the Easter bunny, you are going to be in deep trouble!"  I told him. 
His solution was to set his animal trap out behind the shed and catch the rabbits in there.  I can only imagine if he catches the Easter bunny that the girls are going to want to keep it. 
Well, he's had the trap out there for a couple weeks, and he hasn't caught the Easter bunny yet.  He did catch something else though. 

We think we'll keep it.