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bwtr · 5th June 2007, 06:53

Back in the 1940s/early50s, in Australia, rabbits were the curse of the nation. (Still a serious problem) You had had to hit them out of the way with a stick to set the rabbit traps! (Europeans can not grasp the extent of the utter devestation to the landscape they caused)

I had ferrets, traps, dogs. We used to go spot light shooting at night. Go dab netting--you hop off the utility and run around behind the light and dab a net over the rabbit (in the dark!)

It was common to come back with 200 pairs and gut and skin them in the frost of the morning light. Trucks would come around twice a week to take the carcases to market. And every month or so we would take the dried skins to the buyer--made into common felt hats that everyone around the world wore!

Nowdays they are trying to use the calisi virus to minimise there numbers--with only small success. (The hours I have spent digging up warrens and/or poisoning them with WW11 gasses which nowadays would be banned!)

Rabbits are a curse to many places around the world. Bunny jokes often fall flat!

Bunnies--dead--were my pocket money!

(Just the "Other side" of rabbits!) SORRY!--YOU DID NOT WANT TO KNOW THAT!

5th June 2007, 06:53	#12 (permalink)
bwtr Brian Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: South Australia Posts: 2,096	Back in the 1940s/early50s, in Australia, rabbits were the curse of the nation. (Still a serious problem) You had had to hit them out of the way with a stick to set the rabbit traps! (Europeans can not grasp the extent of the utter devestation to the landscape they caused) I had ferrets, traps, dogs. We used to go spot light shooting at night. Go dab netting--you hop off the utility and run around behind the light and dab a net over the rabbit (in the dark!) It was common to come back with 200 pairs and gut and skin them in the frost of the morning light. Trucks would come around twice a week to take the carcases to market. And every month or so we would take the dried skins to the buyer--made into common felt hats that everyone around the world wore! Nowdays they are trying to use the calisi virus to minimise there numbers--with only small success. (The hours I have spent digging up warrens and/or poisoning them with WW11 gasses which nowadays would be banned!) Rabbits are a curse to many places around the world. Bunny jokes often fall flat! Bunnies--dead--were my pocket money! (Just the "Other side" of rabbits!) SORRY!--YOU DID NOT WANT TO KNOW THAT!