It’s hare today, gone tomorrow — thanks to a face full of freaky tentacles.

The grotesque “Frankenstein”-esque rabbits — once just a Colorado curiosity — are now turning up in Minnesota and Nebraska, their furry faces sprouting grotesque horn- and tentacle-like growths straight out of a B-movie.

The unsettling deformities are the calling card of cottontail papilloma virus (CRPV), also known as Shope papilloma virus — a bug that turns harmless bunnies into nightmare fuel.

The DNA-twisting illness is spread when mosquitoes, ticks, or fleas bite an infected rabbit and then pass it along to others.

While the virus doesn’t affect humans or pets like dogs and cats, wildlife officials are warning: look, don’t touch. 4

First, the infection appears as small, red bumps. Then, as the viru

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