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["Wendy" <crazygardens AT verizon.net>]

I don't know about reproduction, but they sure like to hang out together. 
However, it would not surprise me if a bunch of domestic rabbits eventually 
reverted to a wild-like agouti coloring so that identification became 
difficult. Perhaps that is what you are seeing at your place rather than a 
hybridization.

Wendy

> >  I have domestic rabbits and a few got loose and have formed a
> > "wild" warren that consists of the domestics and a few extra wild ladies.
>
> I could have sworn that I was seeing some of the posterity of domestic
> rabbits that had gotten loose years before.  But domestic rabbits and 
> American wild
> rabbits aren't the same species (in fact, they aren't even the same 
> genus),
> they don't have the same number of chromozomes and so can't interbreed.
>
> James   </HTML>