Wild rabbit

[david_42]

Buy a live trap, so people won't start screaming in your face, "You're killing bunnies!"

 

[Desert_Sky]

Buy a live trap, so people won't start screaming in your face, "You're killing bunnies!"

I kill bunnies....

Thats what i do for fun in my spare time. They will just have to deal with it.

 

[BigKahuna]

Can you use a humane trap, and then just shoot it (with even a beebee gun?) if it's a rabbit? If it's a skunk or someone's pet you would just be able to open the door and run away. No problems.

You've never had a skunk in a cage before have you?

 

[BrewWench]

WEll, it's gotta be better than an injured skunk that you have to try to kill with a beebee gun. Save the beebee gun to kill the animal that WON'T spray you while you're doing it

 

[BigKahuna]

No No.
I'm saying that if you catch a skunk in a live trap...how are you going to get it out alive? It will spray you if you try and get near the cage, and you don't want to be shooting at skunks with BB guns...you'll get sprayed.

Fortunately, skunks are not very hearty, and it will die within about a day or so in the cage.

Too bad it isn't winter....I do love Cotton Tail....and if you've got a pressure cooker, I can even make JackRabbit pretty tastey.


Good Luck on this one.

 

[zoebisch01]

"Be vewy vewy quiiiieeetttt"

 

[jmulligan]

You've never had a skunk in a cage before have you?

I'd be more scared of a raccoon. I've caught a few of those during mammal surveys and they are nasty bastards. Stinking is one thing (if you get sprayed), but a raccoon would try to take your hand off.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

My neighborhood is experiencing a rabbit population explosion this year. Rabbits are literally everywhere, chomping away at everyone's grass, gardens and shrubbery.

I got to thinking about this today while looking at a particularly plump looking little bunny. When I was younger my friends and I used to trap and eat them. We lived in an area that at the time was on the edge of our town, so it was semi-rural. I live in a built-up neighborhood in a town now, but I'm wondering, what's the difference? Is there any reason why I couldn't be trapping and eating a few of those rabbits here? I do seem to recall that we did most of our trapping in colder weather. Was there a reason for that?

Hi McCall St. Brewer: I've hunted rabbits/hares for years, but I don't hunt them in late spring or summer for 2 reasons: 1 being that springtime females are usualy pregnant & that's not something I like to deal with when gutting/skinning them. The 2nd is Tularemia, AKA "rabbit fever". It can be transmitted to humans through a cut or scrape on your skin, and I've heard through eating the meat raw or undercooked. Late spring & summer is when this disease is most prevalent out here in the western 1/2 of the US, but I'm not sure about your area. Do a google search on Tularemia for more detailed info. Hope you find this info useful. Regards, GF.

 

[rebeltruce]

Grew up hunting and eating rabbits as well.....Rabbits are carrying what we called Warbles during the spring and summer, Warbles are a parasite just under the rabbits skin and they are nasty looking.

The Warbles die off just after the first good frost.....

 

[Reelale]

Grew up hunting and eating rabbits as well.....Rabbits are carrying what we called Warbles during the spring and summer, Warbles are a parasite just under the rabbits skin and they are nasty looking.

The Warbles die off just after the first good frost.....

Yep. Warbles are botfly larvae. The warbles don't actually die off, the adult fly dies off, therefore no more larvae. 1st hard-frost kills the adults. Deer have them too, year round in their nasal passages.

Link

 

[Homercidal]

Note from the bottom of that DNR page:

This parasite is of no public health significance and properly cooked meat from infected animals is safe to eat.