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Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes. They’ve got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses. And what’s with all the carrots? What do they need such good eyesight for anyway? Bunnies! Bunnies! It must be bunnies! (Or maybe midgets...) -—Anya on Buffy’s Once More with Feeling musical episode
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Could you throw down a weighted swath of some kind of cloth, like berlap, and create a gradual ramp by pinning the top half of the cloth to the ground above?
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Bunnies are pets.
Rabbits are dinner.
A stew pot or a frying pan would fix your problem.
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I'm actually amazed that you haven't put up a window well cover before. Doesn't the well fill with trash and leaves and yard debris?
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quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: I'm actually amazed that you haven't put up a window well cover before. Doesn't the well fill with trash and leaves and yard debris?
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I'm so happy I'm not the only person who's first thought was "Anya!" When they saw this thread title.
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mph-ostrich has very, very little fat. So little that it's very easily overdone and should only be cooked rare (or medium rare, I can't remember). Cooked right, it's very good.
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quote: Opening the window from down here is out of the question right now, as I'm fairly certain that the bunny will jump past me and run free in the house
Well, this certainly would have been MY option to take. Although I would be prepared so it couldn't get past me.
But either way, glad you got it out, JTK.
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Wild rabbit (desert cottontail) is generally too gamey for my taste, although soaking the meat in a salt or vinegar solution helps significantly. Domestic rabbit is wonderfully tasty, especially the back portions. If this had happened to me, I would have used the opportunity to add two more rabbits to the freezer.
Speaking of rabbits, I think I'm the only person in the world who couldn't get the stupid things to breed. We got a male and a female, with the intent to breed them for meat. Yes, they really were male and female, I checked. I bred them four or five times, and she never got pregnant. She also was the foulest-tempered rabbit I've ever seen. She is now in the freezer and the male is a pet. I would buy another female, but at this point it isn't worth it because we will be moving next summer. Besides, there are plenty of rabbits for the hunting right outside the door.
Planning on neutering that male? If you don't he'll tear up the house... That's what rabbits do when they are adolecents. They go insane.
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He's not allowed out of his cage without supervision. He's not much of a pet, but we're too attached to eat him at this point. The female was so vicious that that was not a problem.
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I'm surprised no has has connected the poster's name and the thread title and made the appropriate "Star Trek" tribble reference.
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How about you buy a cover for the access hole? They make those, y'know. Btw, aren't those required to have some sort of ladder? There's no need to release heat that way. Typically, they are for basement escapes in the event of a fire.
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I'm thinking about installing hanging rabbit cages in our garage this fall. It would be nice to add another kind of meat to our freezer. At this point we're only looking at having chicken, turkey, and goat, with no beef or pork until next year. Rabbit would help broaden the menus.
Although, after this thread, maybe I'll just dig a pit in the backyard and catch all the neighborhood bunnies. Kind of like a mammoth pit, only...smaller.
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All this made me think of was that Mitch Hedberg joke: My apartment is infested with koala bears. It's the cutest infestation ever. Way better than cockroaches. When I turn on the light, a bunch of koala bears scatter, but I don't want them too. I'm like, "Hey... Hold on fellows... Let me hold one of you, and feed you a leaf." Koala bears are so cute, why do they have to be so far away from me. We need to ship a few over, so I can hold one, and pat it on its head.
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It sounds to me like you have a free rabbit cage already installed. Toss some food and water down there, and when you want to let him into the house to play around, open the window.
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!@#$% rabbits ate all the green bean plants in my garden last night They already ate all the pea seedlings a few weeks ago, I thought maybe they were done destroying my legumes, but noooo. Heck, they're not even bothering to run away from me anymore; one of them was lounging just a few feet from the edge of the garden while I was weeding the other day, totally unconcerned, looking like it was thinking "Oh, the monkey servant has emerged to tidy up our free buffet area, how nice." Wretched little buggers.
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quote:Originally posted by Stray: !@#$% rabbits ate all the green bean plants in my garden last night They already ate all the pea seedlings a few weeks ago, I thought maybe they were done destroying my legumes, but noooo. Heck, they're not even bothering to run away from me anymore; one of them was lounging just a few feet from the edge of the garden while I was weeding the other day, totally unconcerned, looking like it was thinking "Oh, the monkey servant has emerged to tidy up our free buffet area, how nice." Wretched little buggers.
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jtk -- did you get it out this last time? Have you tried a screen or something over the area where they are falling into the window well?
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Can't you do what you did the last time to get the rabbit out?
(PS: I've eaten rabbit and thought it was fine, but I think ostriches are too unique-looking to eat. Maybe if I knew they came from an area overpopulated with ostriches I'd try one.)
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quote:Originally posted by James Tiberius Kirk: It happened again.
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Have you considered installing a screen so the bunnies can't fall down anymore?
MPH: You think THAT'S annoying, try having a dog that brings home disembolwed cats that she has killed and mangled.
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quote:Originally posted by Stray: !@#$% rabbits ate all the green bean plants in my garden last night They already ate all the pea seedlings a few weeks ago, I thought maybe they were done destroying my legumes, but noooo. Heck, they're not even bothering to run away from me anymore; one of them was lounging just a few feet from the edge of the garden while I was weeding the other day, totally unconcerned, looking like it was thinking "Oh, the monkey servant has emerged to tidy up our free buffet area, how nice." Wretched little buggers.
Rabbits do that... You should see what Bernie does when I have an apple in my bag. Rabbits have no manners.
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quote:Originally posted by Fyfe: In the words of the immortal Mitch Hedberg, It's the cutest infestation ever.
It's true, I've always wanted to hug a bunny. I'd never have the heart to run one out if it was in my garden.
As for advice. I would either give the "capture box" one more go or make a ramp or set of stairs for him to use.
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They already ate all the pea seedlings a few weeks ago, I thought maybe they were done destroying my legumes, but noooo. Heck, they're not even bothering to run away from me anymore; one of them was lounging just a few feet from the edge of the garden while I was weeding the other day, totally unconcerned, looking like it was thinking "Oh, the monkey servant has emerged to tidy up our free buffet area, how nice." Wretched little buggers.
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