Well rabbits are different. Caged pet rabbits I am sure would be easy to catch. But wild jackrabbits are fast as lightnin with the cornering abilities no dog can match. I am sure my boy could catch a fat pet rabbit. He was chasing a wild rabbit with big long hind legs.
The caged, raised rabbit can actually faint if startled strong enough. Sometimes even the threat of a big dog will cause them to drop.
These were wild jackrabbits. We bought homes in a new development, which always destroys a lot of habitat and it seems lots of displaced jackrabbits go with new housing starts. This was no pet bunny. It was a wild jackrabbit and while the dalmation didn’t run it down instantly, my friend was frantically trying to recall his dog and the fight was over pretty quickly. Took us a while to cover the distance to where the dog and rabbit were.
Dalmations are not slow dogs.