When 91原创 City municipal workers excavated an asphalt sidewalk to find what had caused a second sinkhole in as many weeks, they discovered a pet rabbit, looking back at them from a tunnel.

Kyle Simpson, 91原创 City鈥檚 manager of engineering operations, parks and recreation, said it started out in early June as a report about a sinkhole under a walkway in a south City neighbourhood.

A municipal crew filled it in and thought they had fixed it, then came word, about a week later, that the sinkhole had recurred.

鈥淭he crews were kind of scratching their head, because there no utilities in the area [that might be a cause],鈥� Simpson told the 91原创 Advance Times.

When the crew dug out the sidewalk, they saw an industrious rabbit had burrowed a tunnel from an outdoor cage in their yard 鈥� under the walkway and into the neighbouring yard under the asphalt sidewall, in the direction of a nearby vegetable patch.

It did not seem especially timid, calmly eyeing the workers while one took the bunny鈥檚 picture.

The crew filled in the hole, and left a 鈥渨hile-you-were-out鈥� card at the house, to advise the owner about the situation.

Asked if a ticket would be issued, Simpson said no.

鈥淥bviously, it wasn鈥檛 intentional because it was the rabbit, and we can鈥檛 fine him [the rabbit] 鈥� or her, 鈥� Simpson laughed.

While rabbits 鈥渉ave been known to burrow,鈥� Simpson has never heard of one tunneling under a sidewalk.

鈥淚t鈥檚 a first for me,鈥� Simpson remarked.

鈥淗opefully, it won鈥檛 happen again.鈥�

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