1) a sterlilization bylaw (ideally, we'd like the pet stores to not sell any live animals whatsoever, but the city is looking for the "easier sell", so we will go along with that because it will result in the same end....a prohibition on selling unsterilized rabbits will mean that someone along the way will need to cover the cost and logic tells us that won't happen)

2) an active spay/neuter/release and spay/neuter/adoption strategy for existing rabbits, keeping in mind:

-- a screening process to find qualified homes in the case of adoption
-- sterilized rabbits released in the same area where they were caught is an option and doesn't violate the B.C. Wildlife Act
-- sterilized rabbits cannot be legally released to outlying areas unless a permit is obtained from the B.C. govt. (the city could obtain one)
-- there is one available land parcel of 160 acres where rabbits have been released in the past; the owner has for years taken homeless rabbits and released them on her property to live the free life; she feeds them and they have sheds to burrow under
-- risk of predation if released to an acreage, as opposed to risk of predation as well as being run over, poisoned, etc. in the city since rabbits are frequent breeders, a humane strategy would include protection of small babies in burrows--no capture of lactating females; instead, focus on capture of males first as well as juvenile rabbits