Dog killing rabbits

zaksmum

bagginslover wrote: »

Its means there is a population explosion again (happens regularly), so very soon there will be a resurgence of myxi, and there will be few rabbits again.

It goes in a cycle like that, you see it in the fox population too, in response to the rabbit numbers going up-more food for the cubs so more survive.

I wondered what it was. In Anglesey the rabbit population is just ridiculous. As I go on the headland there are literally hundreds of rabbits everywhere. Anyone trying to keep a dog on the lead has their work cut out because the dogs just go mad with excitement.

Mostly the rabbits do escape other dogs to get back to their holes but if the dog's very fast, they've had it.

This last weekend I spoke to one of the farmers who told me he'd happily pay for the services of a dog to rid his farm of most of the rabbits as they are just eating all his crops.

Maybe a way for the dog to start paying towards his board and lodgings...:rotfl:

liz545

Just to clarify, this is a hare (note enormous ears, longish muzzle) - they're usually at least as big as a large domestic cat or terrier.

and this is a rabbit - smaller ears, rounder head, much smaller.

zaksmum

Thanks for that liz. I really don't know now. It was very big, brown, and fast...could well have been a hare, or someone mentioned jack rabbit?