This is a rabbit with Myxomatosis, right? :O(

Galaxy66 said:
You must know very little about wild rabbits, cuddly fluffy tame pet rabbits do not cause thousands of pounds worth of damage to farmers crops!!. I have seen huge strips of damage done to the perimeters of cereal crops by this pest.
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darthsmidge said:
Never said i did :cautious:
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darthsmidge said:
cant imadgine them being a trouble to anyone,
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^^^

And is the above quote not the reason I assumed you knew very little and why I decided to explain to you the damage they can do :LOL:
 
darthsmidge said:
Afraid i dont remember, was only six, lego was much more interesting than the news at the time :LOL:
Sorry if im coming across all troublemakery, but i have two rabbits at home and love them to bits, cant imadgine them being a trouble to anyone, and it seems such a shame to wipe out hundreds to stop them digging holes :shrug:
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Bless, you're still a boy. :LOL::LOL:

I have an orange Rex which is a BRC (British Rabbit Council) Champion. My daughter and I used to win loads of rabbit shows with it. It's a stunner.:)

So you see, I'm not a cruel evil anti rabbit person. Wild rabs must be controlled otherwise we'd have major problems.(y)

Lisa
 
chris_f said:
I shoot them whenever I visit his farm, its the quickest way of getting rid of them, and one shot with an exceptional velocity .22 (45lbft muzzle pressure) is enough to kill them no matter where you hit it.
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Should still be head / heart & lung shots for a clean kill tbh.
 
Jo said:
If you live in Kirton, Lincs or anywhere near here and are reading this... tell anyone you know about this. If they know someone with pet rabbits that live outside, tell them to take them indoors if they haven't been inoculated. Then get them inoculated. I am sure that the price of such treatment is worth preventing any child witnessing this happen to their much loved pets.
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I am not being funny, but taking them indoors will make not diffenerence. :crying: I used to show rabbits and brought a rather nice new bunny and kept him indoors from day one. He still got myxi two days before he was booked infor his first jab :crying:

Inoculatings are the way to go, but even that does not guarentte they will not get it, it just gives them a better chance of fighting it. (y)

Still poor poor wild bun bun. :crying:
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tbm said:
Should still be head / heart & lung shots for a clean kill tbh.
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Agreed, its definately the most humane way. I use hollow point pellets which normally have an exit hole the size of a large grape. I also have a bushnell x40 scope, so I normally go for just behind the eye.
They feel nothing, its more humane than a mixy death thats for sure.
 
If you can't get hold of a gun, You might have to bring yourself to snapping its neck, I've done it quite a few times when you we're aloud to hunt in the UK, Just place your index and middle finger round its neck, push your thumb on its skull and grab the back legs with your other hand, then pull & twist at the same time as hard as you can till you hear a click.

Then thats it job done.
 
Yes Jo that rabbit is myxy as you know by now.
I won't bother with humane destruction methods, there has been plenty of
"advice" posted

Anyhow,I guess it will be dead shortly as the eyes close
the rabbit can only "sense" its food and will probably die of starvation,
if not taken by a fox in the mean time,

I was going to stay out of this
but there has been so much crap talked about rabbits
lets get a few things straight.
There are the only pest that has 2 acts
demanding their control
The pest act 1954
the rabbit act Prevention of Damage by Rabbits Act 1939
Roughly translated
anyone with wild rabbits on their "land"
has a duty under the law to control them
or stop them straying onto other property.


Quote DEFRA
"Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) have once again established themselves as the major vertebrate pest of British
agriculture causing economic losses estimated to be in excess of £100 million annually."

"a loss of 1% per rabbit per hectare (2.5 acres) has
been recorded for winter wheat and 0.33% per rabbit
per hectare for spring barley." /quote
 
Well a little update. Our friend came during the day while we were out yesterday. He shot 2 young rabbits and found 4 that had already perished :( He said he will come back in a couple of weeks and have a look for signs of others, unless we call him to come back before then.

I couldn't have stuck around to see it, so we went out. Snapping their necks or anything like that ... :crying: there is just no way Chris or I could have done that.

Rabbits may be a pest, but no matter ... I still think they are adorable creatures to look at. I also used to breed rabbits. I've watched the young being raised all year through, and have many shots of them.

I knew they would have to be controlled as soon as I saw dozens on the field next to us munching through the crops. I let the landlord know, and a few days later I heard the gun shots. I think they got the majority over the space of a week or two, as I have barely seen any recently. Maybe they introduced a Myxy rabbit to control the rest :shrug:

Anyway, things seem to be under control for the time being. I'm still sad though.

They is no denying the fact that Myxy is a cruel cruel disease folks. There was absolutely no need for it to be introduced. There are more human ways of dealing with them IMO. To create a disease that puts any animal through that amount of suffering, purely to control them is just plain awful.

I'll leave you all with this picture. One of the young from earlier in the year. The very reason I have a soft spot for our farmers pest:

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Jo
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Rabbits need to be controlled for various reasons, but Myxi is an in-humane way of doing so.

Anyone seen inglourious basterds?

Ignoring the fact the conversation was about Jewish people, people have a dislike towards Rats.
Why?

Rats have never done anything to you?

Sure, rats spread the bubonic years and years ago, but surely you'd agree any disease a rat can carry, a squirrel would carry too? Yet you don't hold the same hatrid for the squirrel as you do the rat?
 
foodpoison said:
Sure, rats spread the bubonic years and years ago, but surely you'd agree any disease a rat can carry, a squirrel would carry too? Yet you don't hold the same hatrid for the squirrel as you do the rat?
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Not really
Squirrels are undoubtedly a pest
but feed mainly on nuts etc
Rats scavenge in all sorts of places
and live a lot closer to humans.
the risk of salmonella from rats is very real
as is weils disease
Leptospirosis this is carried in the rats urine and is a potential killer
most people at risk are sewer workers, past controllers and fisherman.
The virus is carried in the urine of rats and enters the body (humans) through broken skin

So, if you put your hand on an area that a rat has urinated
on that is carrying the virus and you have a cut on your hand
you become very ill very quickly and may die within 7 days
lovely little creatures ain't they?
 
foodpoison said:
Rabbits need to be controlled for various reasons, but Myxi is an in-humane way of doing so.

Anyone seen inglourious basterds?

Ignoring the fact the conversation was about Jewish people, people have a dislike towards Rats.
Why?

Rats have never done anything to you?

Sure, rats spread the bubonic years and years ago, but surely you'd agree any disease a rat can carry, a squirrel would carry too? Yet you don't hold the same hatrid for the squirrel as you do the rat?
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Watched it on Saturday, pure class. As much as I hate Brad Pitt there's no denying his brilliance.
 
Get some gardening gloves on (that your happy to throw) and break its neck.

Mixie is a horrible disease and its better for the thousands of other rabbits around.

Sacrifice a couple to save the rest.

Grip your thumb and first finger in opp directions around its neck and twist in teh opposite direction. A fast way to end, I would think twice on shooting with a 22 airgun.

:(
 
foodpoison said:
You hate him because he's brilliant :p
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No, i hate him because all women fancy him and not only has he married Angelina, but he's made the beast with two backs with Jennifer Anniston and Gwynneth Paltrow. However, I fear we may be venturing into thread creep territory here.

Sorry Jo;)
 
foodpoison said:
We're talking about man-made diseases, are we not? Thread creep? I don't think so ;)
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No. Myxomatosis (a type of pox virus) was first identified in South America, in a relatively benign form, and was artificially introduced in Australia. It had a devastating impact on the rabbit population which had no natural resistance to it. The disease spread to Europe via France, and entered the UK in the 1950s but there is no evidence, that I am aware of, that this was the result of any deliberate action. It was subsequently encouraged to spread by introducing diseased animals to uninfected warrens and populations. The govenment took no steps to prevent this, despite strong protects at the time, and its still endemic.
 
aw Jo thats so sad! my dad used to shoot them, when we lived on the farm, to put them out of their pain.
 
Gary said:
I live in London and I'm confused

a) what is a Rabbit?
b) what is a Horse?
c) why are we culling Brad Pitt with mixer?
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a) as you live in London you must be aware of Chas and Dave, Right?
b) I think my mum refers to these as ladies of the night
c) because its a good idea?
 
Gary said:
I live in London and I'm confused

a) what is a Rabbit?
b) what is a Horse?
c) why are we culling Brad Pitt with mixer?
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a) There are none in London, the foxes ate them all.
b) Mythical creature in most cities. Often found in Glasgow with a stroppy growth on their back herding football supporters
c) Drowning actors in soda water is the new national past-time.

Back in the olden days, when I was a teenager, we all had .22 air rifles and spent many days in the local countryside shooting rabbits. (with the blessing of the local farmer naturally)
That of course was back in the days before Tesco sold 2 chickens for a fiver. Rabbit meat was a staple for many families in our area. What we didn't use or pass on to family was sold to local butchers to help pay for our ammo.
I can understand you don't want to dispatch them personally Jo, not everyone is up for hunting, shooting and fishing. I'm glad you noticed the poor b*ggers and arranged to have them put out of their misery. Lots of peeps don't recognise the signs.
 
Tazmaniandevil said:
I can understand you don't want to dispatch them personally Jo, not everyone is up for hunting, shooting and fishing. I'm glad you noticed the poor b*ggers and arranged to have them put out of their misery. Lots of peeps don't recognise the signs.
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I agree. I grew up with shooting and fishing too, but most people don't nowadays. Killing, personally, is alien to them and I imagine that the idea of shooting something at point blank range, or despatching it with your bare hands, is even more repulsive. I'd far rather they got someone else to do it, quickly and humanely, than try to do it themselves and cause even more suffering because they don't have the knowledge or experience to deal with it calmly and competently.
 
MartynK said:
I agree. I grew up with shooting and fishing too, but most people don't nowadays. Killing, personally, is alien to them and I imagine that the idea of shooting something at point blank range, or despatching it with your bare hands, is even more repulsive. I'd far rather they got someone else to do it, quickly and humanely, than try to do it themselves and cause even more suffering because they don't have the knowledge or experience to deal with it calmly and competently.
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I live in a fairly suburban area and yes, the thought of killing something, anything, repulses me.

I understand it has to be done, and I don't personally think that people who kill things are bad (i.e. pests, not people :p) I just couldn't bring myself to do it.
 
foodpoison said:
I live in a fairly suburban area and yes, the thought of killing something, anything, repulses me.

I understand it has to be done, and I don't personally think that people who kill things are bad (i.e. pests, not people :p) I just couldn't bring myself to do it.
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Yeah, but I have a lot more compassion for some of the "pest" species that have to be culled, than for feral, dangerous, human predators who seem to have become a protected species, in this country anyway.
 
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