BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Now that's funny, must have been an ad placed by PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals).
Posted on 04/29/2009 8:18:01 PM PDT by Chet 99
We have a 47 year-old bunny in the White House who calls himself "Hope." He has outgrown his usefulness. Can we realease him into the woods? I will gladly pay the $500 fine for animal cruelty.
Rabbits are kept as livestock for meat. They are very popular because they are so adaptable and tolerate a wide range of temperatures. Domestic, just means in close relation to man. Domestic doesn’t mean they lost their survival instinct.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Now that's funny, must have been an ad placed by PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals).
One word: hasenpfeffer.
Our dog, who was our faithful companion, guardian, playmate and friend for 15 years, recently died from complications due to congestive heart failure and advanced arthritis. The vet thought we should put her down.
We let her die at home, where she could be comforted in her last days. She could not walk, so we had to clean her up a few times a day. We gave her pain medicine, took her outside in the sunshine to smell the cool spring breezes and listen to the birds. We petted her and cooed to her. She would get frightened from time to time when she grew short of breath, but we would comfort her.
She died in her sleep almost two weeks ago, and we buried her on a hillside where she used to like to keep watch for woodchucks, rabbits, foxes, and coyotes. She even chased a bear on one occasion, and a moose on another.
She was a mixed breed, but we loved her dearly and miss her sorely.
The woods is not the natural environment of a domestic rabbit.
Rabbits have been domesticated for centuries and do not usually live long when released. Predators get most of them and starvation gets the rest. Their European ancestors lived in groups in underground warrens, unlike the more territorial open-living cottontail of this country.
Believe me, the average owner knows diddlysquat about their animal--even what gender it is--and let them go all the time. It IS animal cruelty. Cats and dogs have retained more survival instincts than rabbits, which have traditionally been kept locked in a cage and fed pellets that don't resemble anything growing in the woods.
You also don’t show your children by example that it’s acceptable to take in a creature, earn its trust, enjoy its companionship, and then dump it in the woods as soon as you get bored with it or decide it’s become inconvenient. Fortunately the court has given this guy’s children some remedial education in this subject.
We send kids to government schools .....same difference ... cruelty to kids ...
Hi Daffy that is one chubby bunny. chuckles
Yes you are right, I didn’t bring up the love, trust and loyalty such a pet shows you, and how someone can betray all that, is beyond me.
You should grow duck weed. That is a natural food source for ducks.
ummmm, ... never mind.
I am surprised that hawks didn’t get it.
Very sorry about your dog. I just lost my cat Lilac of 19 years. We wanted to let her die at home but she was getting very dehydrated so we put her down. We brought her home & she is buried with our other pets that have died over the years. I miss her very much & still look around for her at times.
I think if it’s legal to kill an animal it should be legal to release it into the wild.
If indeed it does not adapt, it will become food for another animal which has adapted, which is a good thing.
TRUE. So the obvious and humane thing to do is to kill it and eat it.
This is another wedge into what was at one time the rock upon which the American Culture was based. Animals are not humans, and to allow a government to require you to treat animals as humans is one more freedom stolen.
Just because a person choses to treat an animal as a family member, does not make it a family member. It is still the property of that individual. The only difference between a “domestic” rabbit raised as a pet and one raised for food is the affection the human(s) decide to give it. Being their property, they should be allowed to treat it as they wish with reasonable health considerations.
When I was a child, staying at my father’s parents farm for a few weeks, my uncle took me to a slaughterhouse, being one of the destinations on his ‘to do’ list. I was allowed to see (because I was curious and wanted to look around) the bay where the slaughters occurred complete with the expected detrious, though not an actual slaughter. I was sickened and angry and wanted to destroy the facility. However, I grew up and came to realize that the process, the act of killing animals, was necessary to the survival of my grandparents’ farm. Today, it’s more removed from our lives, but it’s still done.
Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Dominion means ‘man’ has complete disposition, to include husbandry and being a good steward.
Releasing a domesticated rabbit into “the wild” certainly dooms that rabbit, but that is a choice an owner can make. There are alternatives that may have been better choices, but allowing a government or ‘public opinion’ to control our (reasonable) actions is turning ourselves into controlled ‘sheep’ or ‘lemmings’.
I, for one, refuse to be a ‘metrosexual’.
Liberal: If your animal must die, it must die our way and at our hands. Who says we have control needs?
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