Just eat the things.

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Is that a black rex? I used to have a couple. Very friendly rabbits.

/they were delicious

What ever happened to Toby? (new window)

Bunday is a myth

Why would you apply to be a flight attendant if you were pregnant?

Save Canmore Bunnies has raised less than $10,000 so far. The plan is to sterilize the animals and take them to a sanctuary where they can live out their lives.

The cost is $130 per bunny, said Susan Vickery, founder of Earth Animal Rescue Society, which has been working with Save Canmore Bunnies. That includes spaying or neutering, moving them to the sanctuary and providing food for the next year.

Vickery was heavily involved earlier this year when the University of Victoria in British Columbia dealt with hundreds of its own feral rabbits.

She's a bit frustrated at the lack of cash coming in for the Canmore cause.

"It makes me angry that people can drop $50 in a liquor store without blinking, but they won't support something like this," she said.

Reading that made me really happy.

Save the bunnies!!
FOR MY FRYING PAN!!

/come on, Canada.

"hungry coyotes and cougars"

And what would be the problem with that?
We killed all the predators and now we're over-run with rabbits, deer, and geese.
Either bring back the predators - wolves, wild cats, coyotes, and bears - or hunt these animals to feed people.
Rabbit is good cooking.

I came for, "There's only one way to cook Coneys" and left disappointed......

There is only one man for the job. The man who met the Dalai Lama. The man who has a license to kill gophers rabbits by the government of the United Nations.The man who created his own strain of grass from Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California Sensemilia.

That man is Carl Spackler.



/Au revoir, gopher rabbits'.

NeoBad: I came for, "There's only one way to cook Coneys" and left disappointed......

Surely you mean a brace of coneys!

/nasty hobbitses

I always thought this was the way you were supposed to deal with an out-of-control feral bunny population. Then eat them or feed them to the homeless.

I'm glad they put that arrow at the start otherwise i'd never understand how the rabbit got in there.

Oh crap, this is how Night of the Lepus started

elk-tamer:

"It makes me angry that people can drop $50 in a liquor store without blinking, but they won't support something like this," she said.

Reading that made me really happy.

Who said it's an either or situation? $50 for the booze and $50 for your little cause. Quit yore biatching. Or better....can I keep the rabbit? He might want a gin and tonic too.

/Every day is Bunday!

"We have to make responsible decisions about the ongoing care of these rabbits. Killing isn't the worst scenario. The worst scenario is discovering months later that they've all been shipped out somewhere and are sick or starving to death."

Yay for common sense.

"I met her on Sunday, twas my lucky Bun-day.. You know what I mean."

Gyrfalcon: Holy mother of god.

There's a RABBIT SANCTUARY?!??!?!

Uh, I'm as fond of animals as the next person, but rabbits aren't endangered, and nobody cares if they die.

Feral rabbits generally aren't suitable as pets. As a wild species, it'd be inappropriate to consider this "rehabilitation" to make them pet-suitable, as they're already in their natural state. Animal rehabs seek to release animals back into the wild, whenever possible. Rescues are for PET rabbits.

Domestic rabbits live 9-12 years in captivity, if given proper care and kept from predators. $130/yr. Assuming most are young- tends to be the case in the wild- maybe they'll live 8 yrs on average and that's $156,000 for 150. And that's a drop in the bucket considering the problem is 2,000 bunnies.

Any reason you're not just eating the damn things?? They're tasty! I suppose some crazy lady is gonna say no hunting on her property, put out food to keep them there, and soon there's hundreds and hundreds and YOU'RE gonna be the nasty, crazy neighbor for killing ones that wander onto your property.

So they are a variety of pet rabbit that has gone feral. Not a naturally wild rabbit.
Yeah, that is a problem.
They have the cute defense and will likely win.
If they were on an island and had no natural predators then you could make a good argument for killing them.
But even in TFA it says that they are attracting coyotes. And the argument about their droppings is a no-starter. If they were vultures or some other predator with awful smelling feces then the argument makes more sense but rabbit poop does not really smell and they are very clean animals.

Eating them is just asking to get raided by all the teenage girls and grandmothers out there who would think it is akin to eating the pet dog.
It is best to let the natural predators handle this.

Here's an idea. Kill enough of them to fund keeping the rest alive. Dressed fryers at $5.00-$7.00 each. Sell the pelts at a buck a pop. Kill 1,800 of them and you have about $14,000 to take care of the other 200 for life. Problem solved.

It's not like they're an endangered species and if they are escaped domestics then they don't belong there anyway. Add in that they attract predators that will also kill peoples actual pets and it's a no brainer...

Bunnies are obviously scary and evil...

Harry_Seldon: Bunnies Furries are obviously scary and evil...

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FTFY

Not to be ignored:

You know there was a time not so long ago where a dead rabbit was considered good news...

or not so good news if you weren't married.

So where is Mike when Canmore really needs him? Unfortunately dead. This is a Canadian jokefor those from elsewhere.

hassenpeffer ist gut

If there is anyone reading this who is upset about the idea of taking care of overpopulated rabbits by killing them, answer me this. If the town were overpopulated with rats and the council decided to kill them off, would you be upset?

Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf: If there is anyone reading this who is upset about the idea of taking care of overpopulated rabbits by killing them, answer me this. If the town were overpopulated with rats and the council decided to kill them off, would you be upset?


Rats are not cute and also much dirtier even if they are smarter.

"I'm Mike, from Canmore. This is Norm.... Stay." (RIP, John Morgan and RCAF. Man, I miss the John Morgan years of Air Farce).

We need Norm to hunt down some bunnies...

I'm surprised it wasn't my old school campus in Nanaimo. Maybe they got that under control in the past few years since I've been there. My instructors used to joke about rabbit stew. Probably the best solution, as they are feral, is to take the approach that many cat rescue associations now take: trap-spay/neuter-release the adults, and catch as many babies as possible as soon as they're old enough to be separated from their parents, but young enough to be socialized and become good pets. With diligence, the colony will dwindle out as the bunnies stop replicating. Of course, it's hampered somewhat by the farktards on campus who get a bunny as a pet, can't handle it, and release it on school grounds. That's how these bunny population explosions seem to happen.

hire some ferreters. Rabbit population comes under control and you create jobs!

If only there were some winged predators that could benefit from this problem. How rapturous they would be.

TFA: "town's out-of-control feral bunny population" and "It costs about $130 a year to keep one of the domesticated rabbits."

Fail. Are they feral or domesticated?

If they're feral, then humanely trap them, butcher, and eat them. If they're domesticated, then a human at some point made a decision to assume responsibility for their life, and yes, they should go to the shelter.

But I gather they're feral.

"hungry coyotes and cougars"

Why are we letting these poor animals go hungry when we have all of these rabbits available?

How come the Canadian winter doesn't kill them?

I (well, more my wife) have two pet rabbits and I think saving these feral ones is incredibly stupid. Our rabbits are friendly and amusing, but there are hungry people in this world. Need to take care of a feral rabbit problem? Feed them to the poor.

Hasenpfeffer (new window)

/That is all

Wodan11: TFA: "town's out-of-control feral bunny population" and "It costs about $130 a year to keep one of the domesticated rabbits."

Fail. Are they feral or domesticated?

If they're feral, then humanely trap them, butcher, and eat them. If they're domesticated, then a human at some point made a decision to assume responsibility for their life, and yes, they should go to the shelter.

But I gather they're feral.



Says it all.

Came for Spinal Tap. Leaving satisfied.