Good Idea for pest rabbits

I think the Swede's are onto something :gnthb::hehe:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20091021/tod-bunny-boiling-rabbits-burnt-to-fuel-870a197.html

 

Got to love the Scandinavians - world leaders in alternative forms of energy!

 

I think its a cracking plan. Their numbers are growing, they cause damage, and are often culled anyway. It is only the squeamish that might object.

 

my mother in law wondered why they dont eat them? lol

 

yes, mixy wasnt a good idea. shooting or gassing, summat quick is best.

 

Wild rabbits have developed an immunity to mixy now. It has gone from being a death sentence for them, to something about equivalent of seasonal flu for us. It kills the weak ones, but those in their prime have a very high survival rate, of course that's not taking into account that while ill they are slow and lethargic, and less able to escape from predators.

Its another example of humans messing with nature and getting it wrong. Introduce rabbits, they get out of control, introduce a disease to bring them under control, and instead of controlling wild rabbit numbers, it just makes them suffer. Of course if we hadn't meddled with nature on yet another occassion by exterminating all the larger natural predators, there wouldn't be a problem with rabbit numbers in the first place.

 

too true! mind you, a big black cat/panther has been seen in fields a few miles from here lol shame it doesnt eat more rabbits!

 

I once saw a large cat which I initially mistook for a large dog. It was dusk so daylight wasn't great, and I was about 50 yards away. I wondered what this large dog was doing sniffing about in the bushes, it was only when it silently wandered off when it was clear from the way it moved that it was a cat. Cats and dogs have entirely different walks.

Of course the experts say they don't exist, and sightings from all over the British isles from people from all walks of life are all mistaken or lying. Hmmm.

Anyway, did you know that a rich business man in Scotland has been trying for years to reintroduce various species that used to be native? He's bought several thousand acres of moorland and so far he's put some wild bore on it. He wants to reintroduce wolves and various other animals, but meets stiff resistance everywhere he turns. Farmers objected in case wolves ate their livestock, so he said he'd put tall electric mesh fences around the lot. The ramblers objected to this so he offered to put gates in the fence and baskets of big sticks that the walkers could take to frighten off anything that got too close. The ramblers objected again, saying they didn't want to see big fences in the countryside. Planning authorities and animal groups objected because his estate wasn't big enough, so he put in an offer for a huge adjacent estate. All the bloke wants to do is reintroduce animals that nature had put their before our ancestors hunted them to national extinction.

 

good on him! his land so he shud be able to do as he likes! like you say, so many sightings cant all be false/misidentifications.

I think they (dunno who, some large body/group, maybe natural england? who knows!) have put wild boar in Thetford forest i think it is. i remember seeing them on springwatch/autumnwatch. Simon King said the babies look like humbugs, but I always think streaky bacon! :rotfl: and I think one lot of beavers has been introduced back into the wild. I'm not so sure the beavers are such a good idea. Man has cut down far too many trees as it is!

 

OOOOOooooooo! wild boar seem to be all over the place!!

http://www.britishwildboar.org.uk/main.htm