It's Florida, Man.

What you're about to see may be dangerous,

illegal, unethical, petty, misguided, immoral,

and most definitely stupid.

But it's also all true.

Sort of.

We went to the community.

We go early in the morning, around, like, 6:30.

Hi.

Some residents are very hostile.

One lady, she was approaching us and she was carrying a gun.

She was screaming, "Get off of my property!"

Get off my property!

She said, "If you come here, I'll shoot you."

I will shoot you!

My volunteers, they were afraid.

They were fearing for their lives there.

We're just gonna get our things,

and we're gonna get out of your hair.

We're just gonna grab these.

-(ENGINE REVVING) -(TIRES SCREECHING)

There was one resident, opened the car

and they have a machine gun.

He said, "I don't want you guys taking the bunnies!"

I don't want you guys taking those bunnies!

He said, "Those bunnies are mine."

Those bunnies are mine!

So, this is Jenada Isle.

It's an island, so there's only one entrance in and out.

This is a great neighborhood.

There's 81 homes and everybody knows everybody.

I'm Alicia Griggs and I live in Jenada Isle in Wilton Manors

and I've lived in the neighborhood for 39 years,

since 1984.

This is the house where the woman lived

that left the rabbits in the street.

A couple of years ago,

one of the neighbors had a lot of rabbits.

Hi. (CHUCKLES)

She wasn't a very responsible pet owner.

I'm not a very responsible pet owner.

I'm an absolute sociopath.

When she moved, she just left

all the extra rabbits

in the street to fend for themselves.

I'm leaving you to fend for yourself.

And they've multiplied because they weren't fixed,

and they just continued to multiply.

They were first spotted a couple years back

when one neighbor left them behind.

I think she had three rabbits and she let them out.

Three months ago, we had 110 rabbits all over the place.

They can reproduce every 30 days

and they can have one to 12 bunnies every single time.

I just was pushing constantly

to try and get the rabbits to be rescued and rehomed.

And I was calling everybody,

trying to see if anybody could help do it.

And nobody would do it, so I called this person, Kim.

She is a wealthy socialite

that has a sanctuary for rabbits.

Welcome to my home.

It is Marion Sims Wyeth, the architect of Mar-a-Lago.

My name is Kim Renk.

I am a proud animal rescue person.

There have been times when all eight bedrooms

and nine bathrooms of this house

have been filled with bunnies that I've rescued.

She knows a lot of wealthy people,

and she likes to be the center of attention,

has a lot of contacts, so she can get things done.

Since the time I can remember thinking,

I have been obsessed with rabbits.

Literally, since I was three years old,

I think my first thoughts were rabbits.

You're precious. You're precious.

I love grass, too.

We can smell the grass together.

Come on, babies. Come on, bunny.

Banana treat. Banana.

Banana treat.

Rabbits wake up at about four o'clock

and they're nocturnal, so this is their sleepy time.

This is the time that they lounge on the veranda

and enjoy life in Palm Beach.

There's two more here somewhere.

Um, this is the master.

Well, welcome.

You can see Wolfman Jack and Shorty

lounging on the bed in the lap of luxury.

Wherever they want. My husband's rabbit

sleeps in bed with us every single night.

And I wish my husband would be here,

but he, uh, sadly, is in the investment world

and didn't think this would bode well for him

because his little rabbit Shorty

sleeps in bed with him every night.

So, one day, Alicia called me,

and she explained

the horrible situation going on here.

I immediately jumped into action.

So, I dialed Monica. I thought she could help.

Hey, Honey Bunny. This is Honey-- Okay, Honey Bunny.

This is Honey Bunny.

My name is Monica Mitchell.

My rescue, East Coast Rabbit Rescue.

There's only few rabbit rescues, and there are so many needs.

At one point, I had over a hundred bunnies at once.

This is Bun-New York City room,

and I call this the Bun-hattan. (CHUCKLES)

You have the Bunstro, the Bun Statue.

I always put the B-U-N, like "bunny,"

like the Bunklyn-- Bunklyn Bridge,

'cause you go from Manhattan to Bunklyn,

like Brooklyn, but Bunklyn, yeah.

This is my own rescue.

I started working with rabbits back in 2012.

My pocket.

Most of the, you know,

the funding comes from my savings.

You know, I sold everything I had back in Brazil

and kind of started to the rescue.

Monica said she didn't have enough money,

and I said, "I can get the money."

I can get the money. "Show me the money."

Tom Cruise in whatever that movie was

where he's dancing in his underwear

in front of the fireplace.

"Show me the money." Let's get the money.

So, of course, the first thing I thought of was,

"How do you get the money?"

You have some sort of an outreach.

My publicist, Lisa Bitner, said, "I'll get the Associated Press."

I'm Terry Spencer.

I'm the Broward-Palm Beach correspondent

for the Associated Press.

I got a call from a publicist, and she said that

there was this rabbit infestation in a neighborhood.

So I started checking it out,

and it turned out to be a pretty good story.

It went viral.

Poof! Like a match to some dried newspapers.

Dozens of bunnies

are taking over a neighborhood in Wilton Manors.

These rabbits are overrunning everything,

and now a group is trying to rescue them

rather than exterminate them.

Everywhere you went, you heard the story.

And the money just kept coming in,

and I'm not saying it's enough,

but it was enough to get them to go out and help the animals.

There were these rescue groups

that said, "Okay, we'll come in."

Okay. We'll come in.

"And we'll get the rabbits."

And we'll get the rabbits.

But sadly,

to every good side of a story, there's the yin and yang.

You've been talking to residents.

What are they telling you, Julia?

Mixed emotions over this, certainly, Sheli.

There were some people who got quite angry.

They thought that the rabbits were going to be killed.

They didn't want the rabbits to go away.

And so it became very much a divide.

When the rescue teams came out,

it was complete turmoil on the island.

It seemed like a free-for-all.

There was really no organization.

All of a sudden, there would be one group.

Then there's another group. -(GROWLING)

They were running all over each other's properties.

People that came acted like vigilantes.

They came onto the property and started hitting stuff

and trampling things, and breaking stuff.

"Oh, there's bunny babies in here."

There are bunny babies in here!

I've never seen anything like it in my life.

And I've traveled the world extensively

on business and otherwise.

Not everyone is glad to see them go.

They're an asset.

They're lovely. They make everybody smile.

Joe Jones said he wants the bunnies

in his yard to stick around.

I found one two and a half years ago in my pool

and saved the little thing, and sort of got hooked on 'em.

My name is Joe Jones.

I've lived on this island in this house for 33 years.

Let's see, how do you do that?

We respect each other's privacy out here, and I like that.

Except that woman,

that troublemaker up there, she caused a lot of problems.