Kimberley May, her fiancée Martin, and their three-year-old daughter Olivia were all sound asleep when the thief broke into their house.  As the raider rifled through cupboards, the noise woke up Toby, the family’s British Giant bunny in his kitchen cage.  The 4.5 kg, two-foot long pet began stomping so loudly on the floor that the intruder was caught on the hop and left.

Kimberley said, “We went to bed on Wednesday at about 10pm. In the early hours of the morning Toby our rabbit did five loud thumps.  I sort of half woke up then realized he’d stopped and went back to sleep. When I went downstairs every single cupboard and drawer were open, there were bits out everywhere, then we started noticing things were missing and we phoned the police.  We think that when the rabbit thumped it scared the burglar off and they left all the stuff they were going to take.  The rabbit was just traumatized in his cage, shaking. He’s usually really friendly but he tried to go for the policeman.”