Mum demands compensation after bunny attack injures girl

A Melbourne mum is demanding compensation after her daughter was attacked by a rabbit at a petting zoo.

Charlii, nearly 2, needed plastic surgery after the animal nearly bit off the first joint of her left index finger at the Darebin Council-owned Cooper's Settlement farm at Bundoora Park, Australia.

Charlii only pointed at the rabbit and did not touch it, her mother, Laura Perry, from Lalor, said.



"She pointed at it and it bit her finger. It nearly took the end of the finger off," she said. "There was just blood everywhere."

The little girl spent a night in the Northern Hospital having emergency plastic surgery. Ms Perry says her daughter continues to have nightmares.

But the council – despite moving the angry bunny soon after the attack – won’t pay up.