Move over "Wallace and Gromit", the claims follow reports last week that "stunned" vegetable growers in Northumberland had drafted in armed guards to protect their allotments from a gigantic rabbit.
The main clues to the culprit were said to be oversized pawprints and sightings of a cross between a hare and a rabbit with one ear larger than the other. "This is no ordinary rabbit. We are dealing with a monster," Jeff Smith, 63, said."I have seen its prints and they are huge, bigger than a deer. It is a brute of a thing.''