The Poor Man and the Rabbits

Rabbits kept raiding a poor man's garden, eating all the carrots and gnawing all the lettuce.
The poor man asked his landlord for help, and the landlord, an enthusiastic hunter, arrived the next day with a pack of dogs. They then managed to destroy the hedges, knock over the trellises, and trample the flowerbeds. Even worse: the landlord demanded that the poor man feed him lunch, and that he feed his dogs too.
"That's what I get for asking the high and mighty to help me," said the poor man sadly, "The rich man was more dangerous than the rabbits!"

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Inspired by: Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists by Roger L'Estrange, 387.
Notes: This fable is not part of the classical Aesop tradition, but it falls into the category of "the cure worse than the disease," as in the story of the horse who sought a man's aid and became the man's slave.

(Piqsels)