Anyone's bunny run away?

So I'm just wondering has anyone had a bunny run away from them overnight?

I used to have a female Netherland dwarf and she was always trying to run away. I took her to the park and I let her free roam around the park, which now I look bad, was a bad idea. But I tried looking for her for like over an hour and it was getting dark, and I had to give up, and try again the next days. I went back every single day trying to find her, leaving out food. I think I left my phone number with a neighbor, and he told me he saw my bunny still running around the park on day 2. Then on the 3rd day, he texted me to come over now because the entire park is trying to catch my rabbit, because I think they all knew my bunny ran away. And I got her, she stayed the park for 3 whole days!

And another occasion, she ran away again, the same thing! And I went back looking for her again. Then on the 3rd day, again, she was still at the park and I had a few friends help me catch her, as well as all the parents / kids.

I couldn't believe the bunny stayed at the park and didn't go anywhere else, on the two occasions I lost her. Even neighbors telling me they still see her around until I finally caught her.

Unfortunately, she died, not related to losing her. I never got a diagnoses, but I was at the mall and she just died in my arms out of nowhere, even though she looked healthy at the beginning of that day. Of those two miracles, it sucks she had to die because I felt super lucky she never ran away. But now I have a male netherland dwarf who looks exactly like her. And he is a bit nicer than the female, he never bites back and he much calmer than the female was, and he never tries running away like she did.

My friend had both her bunnies run away but they stayed in the neighborhood. Close to their home.

Took a month to capture them, because the woods and running under an abounded house made it impossible to capture them.

When my bunnies run away, they often stay close by. At least they are in the neighborhood, they often stay close to their home/ known area.

Never let ours out to free roam. Came home one day with the sprinklers going next door and there was a bunny on my lawn. Called out for her to come and she did and I picked her right up and went to Vet's and she was with us for several years. Turned out that a neighbor one street over turned her loose--no escape--their loss, our gain.

My brother had a lion head named like fluffy or fuzzy. Unfortunately he got her a open cage outside. Ran away within days. I was four or five.

Mine get a lot of garden time and my fences are pretty much symbolic, once they figure out they can go around it they are all over the place, in the wood, meadow...

No Problem. (apart from the risk from predators)

Most important thing for a rabbit is to venture from a safe point, home that is, they exactly remember the way the go out and go back exactly the same way. They even slip through the fence at the exact same spot where they got out - even if there's a now open door 1 foot away. That is, as long as they are not stressed out. Once fleeing stressed, they can forget which way they went and can't backtrack easily.

So, if a rabbits escapes, trying to catch it is a last resort, it aint not easy, and no fun. Instead I just position me opposite of the direction I want them to go, go so close that they just not shy away and wait. They feel uncomfortable with me standing there and watching them, and eventually hop in the right direction. Repeat. Two long sticks held out sideways help to discourage a sassy rabbit to try to hop around me.

Some get really stressed by nightfall, and when they are like that, they go everywhere but home. Protecting the warren from the imagined threat, I guess. Then I just open the gate, feed the other rabbits pellets noisily, and come back 15 minutes later to close the hutch, any stragglers are usually back home then.

So, if a rabbit gets lost in a place it doesn't know - bad.Or if they lose track because of attempts to hunt them down. That is a big stress factor (don't know the way to the safe place), and under stress the quite put some effort into not being caught. In cases like that a stretch of low fencing, 5-10 meters, is usefull, rabbits quite don't understand that obstacles can move or appear on a path they already ventured, but trapping a rabbit like that can be quite stressful.

Anyway, from the very first litter of five 3 escaped into a corn field, I caught one the next day, the other two became kind of pets at the neighbouring demolition waste recycling plant, one of them was tame enough that I could pet her, but once they started a live in the wild I didn't have the heart to put them back into captivity. They got them a wild Romeo and had several litters (they were a reddish agouti, no trace of domestic rabbits in the offspring), when I moved away 3 years later they were still around. Almost no predators in that industrial zone.