Hahaha! With a rabbit like that I would be worried.
Buggs Bunny hanging out
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Yes they make better pets than cats.
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We've got quite a few rabbits here. The stray cats have been thinning them out in my neighborhood lately though.
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I got bitten once when I was little Doc but I’ve been scratched a few times, picking up head shot rabbits. :eek:Doc Dan wrote: ↑Fri Jul 26, 2019 10:46 pmThey do have BIG teeth, however.
Another fun thing is to get some kids and let them chase the rabbits and catch them for you. You won’t get many but the kids will have a blast.
Rabbits make good pets. You can even litter box train them if you plan to keep them in the house. They will come when you call, unlike a cat. They love to be petted so are perfect fir calming lap animals.
On the other hand, they are good to eat. I have a killer rabbit in wine recipe (French). I like them fried, too. Like antelope, you have to gut and cool a rabbit as soon and quickly as possible if they will taste strong and gamey. Many grocers sell rabbit if you ask.
Many butchers sell rabbits here, but they’re large domestic rabbits. We’v never bought or eaten them and by all accounts they’re not much chop. If you’re going to eat rabbit you can’t beat young head shot wild rabbits.
Not good pics but, if it’s feral it’s in peril. :rolleyes:
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Hey Joe, I’m tipping they aren’t as smart as you give them credit and I should have said, ‘find the rabbits at night’. :rolleyes:
Anyhow, it’s the quickest, easiest way I know to catch rabbits but like Doc said they bite and scratch so you got to watch how you grab them. :)
It is SEF and they did. :)SpyderEdgeForever wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2019 3:56 pmBloke, is it true that the rabbits were originally imported into Australia as a cheap food source for colonists and once they bred they got out of control?
In their wisdom our forefathers also introduced foxes, cats, deer, buffalo, camels, cane toads, European carp ... it’s a bloody nightmare. :eek:
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Food and like foxes, sport.SpyderEdgeForever wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2019 3:56 pmBloke, is it true that the rabbits were originally imported into Australia as a cheap food source for colonists and once they bred they got out of control?
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Alex, you ever bag any monster cats in your time?Bloke wrote: ↑Mon Jul 29, 2019 1:16 amHey Joe, I’m tipping they aren’t as smart as you give them credit and I should have said, ‘find the rabbits at night’. :rolleyes:
Anyhow, it’s the quickest, easiest way I know to catch rabbits but like Doc said they bite and scratch so you got to watch how you grab them. :)
It is SEF and they did. :)SpyderEdgeForever wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2019 3:56 pmBloke, is it true that the rabbits were originally imported into Australia as a cheap food source for colonists and once they bred they got out of control?
In there wisdom our forefathers also introduced foxes, cats, deer, buffalo, camels, cane toads, European carp ... it’s a bloody nightmare. :eek:
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Hey Tim, I’ve shot heaps mate. They come in when I’m whistling foxes ... feral dogs too.
The Tom in the photo above (and below) was definitely the biggest to date. He was heavier than the fox in the picture and a weary bugger. I was a bit lucky to drop him with a .22 at about seventy meters. Usually feral cats are rangy, scrawny things this one was bigger than most pampered domestic cats.
Rigor mortis set in by the time I took the pics but you get an idea. :)
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They have a healthy growth potential on a wild diet and no shortage of rabbit for that one by the looks.Bloke wrote: ↑Mon Jul 29, 2019 4:27 amHey Tim, I’ve shot heaps mate. They come in when I’m whistling foxes ... feral dogs too.
The Tom in the photo above (and below) was definitely the biggest to date. He was heavier than the fox in the picture and a weary bugger. I was a bit lucky to drop him with a .22 at about seventy meters. Usually feral cats are rangy, scrawny things this one was bigger than most pampered domestic cats.
Rigor mortis set in by the time I took the pics but you get an idea. :)
I learned respect for cats the hard way...
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Bloke, I thought they made you folks turn in all of your guns?Bloke wrote: ↑Mon Jul 29, 2019 12:16 amI got bitten once when I was little Doc but I’ve been scratched a few times, picking up head shot rabbits. :eek:Doc Dan wrote: ↑Fri Jul 26, 2019 10:46 pmThey do have BIG teeth, however.
Another fun thing is to get some kids and let them chase the rabbits and catch them for you. You won’t get many but the kids will have a blast.
Rabbits make good pets. You can even litter box train them if you plan to keep them in the house. They will come when you call, unlike a cat. They love to be petted so are perfect fir calming lap animals.
On the other hand, they are good to eat. I have a killer rabbit in wine recipe (French). I like them fried, too. Like antelope, you have to gut and cool a rabbit as soon and quickly as possible if they will taste strong and gamey. Many grocers sell rabbit if you ask.
Many butchers sell rabbits here, but they’re large domestic rabbits. We’v never bought or eaten them and by all accounts they’re not much chop. If you’re going to eat rabbit you can’t beat young head shot wild rabbits.
Not good pics but, if it’s feral it’s in peril. :rolleyes:
I love doing this stuff. I need to come visit one day.
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Re: Buggs Bunny hanging out
:eek:
I’ll give you a buzz ... I got to hear about this. :)
No Doc, it’s popular misconception. :confused:
We simply can’t own automatic/semiautomatic weapons although if you’re a Primary Producer you can for the purpose of feral pest control. The government even subsidies ammo and the weapons are tax deductible.
Our gun laws are very reasonable and normal people of sound character can own as many bolt action rifles of any caliber they wish, we simply have to have a reason. Feral pest control, recreational hunting and target shooting are all legitimate reasons to own and use a rifle and or shotgun. We can’t walk around with them for no reason and as a people we just don’t carry guns, knives, tasers, pepper sprays etc. etc. for self defence. It’s not our way.
Anyhow, Oz is a shooter’s paradise as long as you don’t interfere with our native animals you can shoot ferals like: buffalo, clean skin cattle, camels, horses, donkeys, deer, pigs, goats, dogs, foxes, cats, rabbits, rats, cane toads ... 365 days a year.
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