Anyone getting stocked up on food etc just in case?

lostinrates

Primrose wrote: »

My OH tends to do most of our grocery shopping. It doesn't need a banking or economic crisis for us to start stocking up. All our store cupboards are constantly overflowing with all the stuff he brings home, to the extent that I no longer know what's lurking at the back of them. If we ate our way through everything he bought, I'd be as fat as pig !

Maybe he has a plan.......we're meant to taste a bit like pork aren't we?

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Besides wild rabbit taste incomparably better imo, plus are a ''pest'' anyway, requiring cull, and non-natives. shooting wild, with permission is the way to go IMO

Yes, I certainly don't need to feed my 'pets!' However they were getting a little familiar, encroaching on land they'd not dared to colonise before, and rather close to the garden.

A bucket of ferret poo seems to have done the trick though! :rotfl:

fc123

nearlynew wrote: »

Which is exactly what I was doing last sunday morning.
Squirels are my favourite though.

This is one of my favourite you tube videos.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4-OKhjJllo


(not for the squemish)

That's such a horrible YT..really horrid. I mean they weren't in his loft causing damage and sleepless nights were they? Humans kill things for fun (and foxes and tame cats ...I know).
Then he puts the music over....I mean what is so smart about shooting a defenceless animal for no reason?

Sorry to go off on one but it upsets me...... killing for sport bugs me....I am A Towny.

fc123

nearlynew wrote: »

Backyard bunnies are the new urban chickens...........

http://www.good.is/post/backyard-bunnies-are-the-new-urban-chickens

I didn't dare open that link incase it showed rabbits being slain ...but isn't there a link to 'proof' that if you eat nothing but rabbit you die of starvation as the muscle eats itself? Pure protein diets kill you in the end?

Someone posted it to Gen as I think he was going on the Atkins diet?

nearlynew

fc123 wrote: »

Sorry to go off on one but it upsets me...... killing for sport bugs me....I am A Towny.

I'm a towny and I don't like killing for sport either.

Anything I kill I eat.

lostinrates

I don't think its drastically appropriate or bridge building to get into a hunting debate, and as I said, I didn't click the link, but squirrels, grey squirrels, are another non native that do require control...how that's done, doesn't concern me beyond in the most humane methods available.

Rabbits are farmed, fairly like any other mass farmed meat. I remain convinced that wild are both more ethical and tastier.

treliac

fc123 wrote: »

That's such a horrible YT..really horrid. I mean they weren't in his loft causing damage and sleepless nights were they? Humans kill things for fun (and foxes and tame cats ...I know).
Then he puts the music over....I mean what is so smart about shooting a defenceless animal for no reason?

Sorry to go off on one but it upsets me...... killing for sport bugs me....I am A Towny.

It's one point that puts me off voting Tory.... that they will bring back hunting animals for sport.

Davesnave

treliac wrote: »

It's one point that puts me off voting Tory.... that they will bring back hunting animals for sport.

I didn't click the links either, not because I'm squeamish, but because they wouldn't appeal to me. It's odd, because I'd be quite OK about shooting rabbits, or foxes,if they were being a nuisance, but somehow, over the years I've lost my hunting instinct & wouldn't 'enjoy' the stalking etc.

It's the same way with fishing; I'm happy now whether I catch anything or not. I was not always so laid-back. In fact when I was young, I had a 'thing' about not going home empty-handed.

Oh dear, seem to be back on the old hunter-gatherer kick again!

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

I don't think its drastically appropriate or bridge building to get into a hunting debate, and as I said, I didn't click the link, but squirrels, grey squirrels, are another non native that do require control...how that's done, doesn't concern me beyond in the most humane methods available.

Rabbits are farmed, fairly like any other mass farmed meat. I remain convinced that wild are both more ethical and tastier.

Agreed I couldn't debate hunting at all as I have no knowledge but the link was a squirrel getting food from a garden pole feeder then being eletrocuted by something...I think that's what they did..or it got shot but didn't hear gun shots. So it wasn't about hunting, but about killing for a laugh.

nearlynew

fc123 wrote: »

Agreed I couldn't debate hunting at all as I have no knowledge but the link was a squirrel getting food from a garden pole feeder then being eletrocuted by something...I think that's what they did..or it got shot but didn't hear gun shots. So it wasn't about hunting, but about killing for a laugh.

No.

The video shows squirels being shot by a pest controller with an air rifle.