Last Monday afternoon, Terry Chao and Jenna Goins were searching under the wood-paneled Endale Arch on the northern side of Prospect Park, working on a tip from a community forum that there was a domesticated bunny loose in the area. Prospect Park is no place for an indoor rabbit, and they arrived just in time. “There are hawks and raccoons that have rabies and hundreds of off-leash dogs,” Goins says.

After about 20 minutes of looking, they found a floppy-eared harlequin — bunny-world lingo for calico — hiding behind a tree. “He was super-scared,” she says. They also found evidence that someone had abandoned the pet there: a bowl of water, a box and blanket, a nibbled-on carrot. They named him Parker, after the park.

Their work wasn’t over. Three days later, Chao and Goins were out again

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