Bunny Control!

Watson said :

Interesting they don’t mention what this control program entails? I’m assuming they’re baiting them and infecting them with one of those horrible diseases?

I support eradicating rabbits but I am secretly glad that the spot I take my dog to to chase bunnies is not on the list.

Family planning counselling and birth control?

EvanJames said :

460cixy said :

I can’t see why they can’t be shot and used to feed dogs/cats at the RSPCA. Or even ppl. there good tucker I ping heaps of them

And there’s your answer. You ping heaps of them, and yet, somehow, there are still heaps. It’s been well established that shooting is not an effective way of controlling rabbit populations.

Calicivirus is still working, there’s reports of sick rabbits regularly. But now’s Pindone time. Pindone and habitat destruction should see some good short-term control. ACT Gov’t are good at this stuff, better than the clowns who play at it in NSW.

Give me 2 weeks of regular shooting with the air rifle & trapping on Tuggeranong hill & I could get the numbers down to nil.

The problem is, there is not enough action on rabbits. Yep, they will do this this week but what will they do for the next 10 years? Meanwhile, other areas are not particularly doing much about them either so the poulation builds again……

I would be happy to help, for a lot less that 150G & the by product could be used for all sorts of things.

INB4 FREDDY VEGAN

EvanJames said :

460cixy said :

I can’t see why they can’t be shot and used to feed dogs/cats at the RSPCA. Or even ppl. there good tucker I ping heaps of them

And there’s your answer. You ping heaps of them, and yet, somehow, there are still heaps. It’s been well established that shooting is not an effective way of controlling rabbit populations.

Calicivirus is still working, there’s reports of sick rabbits regularly. But now’s Pindone time. Pindone and habitat destruction should see some good short-term control. ACT Gov’t are good at this stuff, better than the clowns who play at it in NSW.

Please provide citation for:

1. “It’s been well established that shooting is not an effective way of controlling rabbit populations”
2. “Calicivirus is still working, there’s reports of sick rabbits regularly”

Additionally, I note you sate “ACT Gov’t are good at this stuff”, but you also state “yet, somehow, there are still heaps”.

460cixy’s point still stands, these rabbits are an underutilised resource which more can be done with (with positive outcomes), irrespective of attempts to turn this into a gun control debate.

460cixy said :

I can’t see why they can’t be shot and used to feed dogs/cats at the RSPCA. Or even ppl. there good tucker I ping heaps of them

And there’s your answer. You ping heaps of them, and yet, somehow, there are still heaps. It’s been well established that shooting is not an effective way of controlling rabbit populations.

Calicivirus is still working, there’s reports of sick rabbits regularly. But now’s Pindone time. Pindone and habitat destruction should see some good short-term control. ACT Gov’t are good at this stuff, better than the clowns who play at it in NSW.

460cixy said :

I can’t see why they can’t be shot and used to feed dogs/cats at the RSPCA. Or even ppl. there good tucker I ping heaps of them

+1

why not engage the ACT ferret club do some trapping, make some nice casserole and a few pairs of high quality gloves for the upcoming Canberra winter.

I can’t see why they can’t be shot and used to feed dogs/cats at the RSPCA. Or even ppl. there good tucker I ping heaps of them

It will be fumigation and poisoning. Most wild rabbit populations are now heavily resistant to calicivirus if it has been released to the area at any time in the past.

neanderthalsis said :

But bunnies will be a valuable food source in the post Korean nuclear apocalypse due sometime next week.

I would happily take a few for the pot before they start baiting/infecting them.

+1 Love a good rabbit stew.

But bunnies will be a valuable food source in the post Korean nuclear apocalypse due sometime next week.

I would happily take a few for the pot before they start baiting/infecting them.