Kimberley May, her fiance Martin, and their three-year-old daughter Olivia were all sound asleep when the thief broke into their house.
But as the raider rifled through cupboards the noise woke up Toby the family's British Giant bunny in his kitchen cage.
The 4.5kg, two-feet long pet began stomping so loudly on the floor that the intruder was caught on the hop and left.
Kimberley said: We went to bed on Wednesday at about 10pm. In the early hours of the morning Toby our rabbit did five loud thumps.
I sort of half woke up then realised he'd stopped and went back to sleep.
When I went downstairs every single cupboard and drawer were open, there were bits out everywhere, then we started noticing things were missing and we phoned the police.
Kimberley, a nurse, is convinced that two year-old Toby's thumping scared the thief off from their house in Plymouth, Devon.
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