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Am I Turning Liberal, RINO, or what (Vanity)
5/28/13 | Steve Roden

Posted on 05/28/2013 5:46:53 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment

I need help from the Freeper Community. My entire bean garden was wiped out by a cottontail rabbit this weekend. The rabbit can be seen in my backyard mocking me with her twitching nose. I have been an avid hunter and have killed myriads of game before but I am having difficulty (with my wife's advice) from sending this Obama rabbit to the great carrot garden in the sky. My question is thus: Is my hesitancy in expediting this rabbit a sign of liberal or worse RINO behavior? Am I caving in to the zeitgeist of the times by not putting a .22 into the head of Watership Down resident? My other options are repellant sprays, live trapping, or installing a $100 rabbit fence. If I get any Freeper responses to my dilemna, I will follow their advice (like a true RINO). The fate of Peter Cottontail is now in your hands!


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Gardening; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: liberalrabbit; vanity
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To: 2nd Amendment

It’s OK to have a pet bunny, but you do run the risk of supporting a bunny family not far down the road. They reproduce like, well, rabbits.


41 posted on 05/28/2013 6:13:23 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: 2nd Amendment

Perhaps like me you have lost your blood lust. There are a few predators I will shoot but otherwise I enjoy wildlife. And their lives, often tough, are all they have and I would rather watch them, and feed them, then to snuff out what little they have. Name your critters and enjoy them - except the big bad wolf, coyotes and a few winged thingys.


42 posted on 05/28/2013 6:14:31 AM PDT by mcshot (God bless the USA! THE GUN DEBATE WAS SETTLED IN 1791!!!)
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To: 2nd Amendment

Is it wabbit season or duck season?


43 posted on 05/28/2013 6:14:58 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: Pontiac
I shoot ground hogs from an upstairs window to deal with this problem. If that option is available to you it might be give it a shot. Just do like Joe told Jill, take that double-barrel shotgun and shoot both barrels into the air from the balcony. That shoulc scare the rabbits off.
44 posted on 05/28/2013 6:19:27 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: HurriKane
Here’s a spray I’m trying: one clove garlic and one small onion macerated into a juice, add one teaspoon cayenne, then add one quart water, let it sit for an hour, then strain it, then add one tablespoon dishwashing liquid, and you’re ready to go, spray on leaves, smells awful, but I hope it works for me and yours next time...

Until you got the the soap I couldn't tell if you wanted to repel the rabbit or marinate him.

45 posted on 05/28/2013 6:20:16 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)
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To: 2nd Amendment

I suggest that the problem be viewed as a matter of illegal immigration by rabbits onto your land. Your preferred solution — vigorous interior enforcement — works only as long as you are there and on guard. Since you have competing obligations and there is a vast number of rabbits looking to trespass and live off the fruits of your efforts, it seems to me that a fence that is impermeable to rabbits is the preferred solution — backed up, of course, by .22 caliber interior enforcement.


46 posted on 05/28/2013 6:21:43 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: 2nd Amendment

.22?

Slingshot. Spear. Atlatl. Wire snare. Arrow.

Expand your horizons.

Kill it and grill it.


47 posted on 05/28/2013 6:23:57 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: 2nd Amendment
THE OLD-SCHOOL SOUTHERN SOLUTION:
For all varmints and many freeloading ___________________
(FILL IN THE BLANK: wabbits, squirrels, deer, moles, foxes, etc...)

(1) SHOOT...
(2) SHOVEL...
(3) SHUTUP...!!

HEADS-UP:

Some squirrels shoot back!

***********

HK Squirrel photo HKSquirrel.jpg

************

Possum1 photo Possum1.jpg

Monday humor... enjoy!

48 posted on 05/28/2013 6:24:09 AM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: 2nd Amendment

Given the scarcity of .22 ammo, the $100 bunny wabit fence might not be a bad idea.


49 posted on 05/28/2013 6:26:15 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: 2nd Amendment

I can relate! We have been relocating a family of 4 of these little rascals. They have been having a wonderful time bounding around our garage at all times of the night, knocking over pots, opening bins, and eating all the cat food. One night they opened every single drawer in the tool cabinets and climbed up them like stairs to get at a couple of onions. The swampy woods are full of crayfish and and other tasty raccoon treats but when I chase them off they come right back. So now we are driving them across the spillway and letting them go on the other side of the lake! These little guys don't even growl when caged. They just act like a pouty pet that just got in trouble. Guess it could be worse. My dad has skunks at the deer camp!

50 posted on 05/28/2013 6:26:16 AM PDT by Casie (democrats destroy)
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To: Vaquero

The worms are fly larva under the skin. About the size of your thumb.


51 posted on 05/28/2013 6:29:25 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: 2nd Amendment

Shoot it, skin it, sauté it.


52 posted on 05/28/2013 6:32:06 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (For me, I plan to die standing as a free man rather than spend one second on my knees as a slave.)
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To: 2nd Amendment

53 posted on 05/28/2013 6:32:21 AM PDT by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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To: 2nd Amendment

First, git yourself a holy hand grenade. Take no chances.


54 posted on 05/28/2013 6:33:42 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: 2nd Amendment

If you do not want to shoot it, get a fake owl from the local nursery, put it on a pole, and move it around the garden every other day. It works.


55 posted on 05/28/2013 6:35:35 AM PDT by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: IMR 4350

have shot deer with black scabs on the skin and was told it was those underskin fly larvae that had hatched and left already....


56 posted on 05/28/2013 6:37:45 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: 2nd Amendment

Sounds like you are becoming a MetroSexual


57 posted on 05/28/2013 6:40:46 AM PDT by ICCtheWay
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To: FatherofFive

The nutrients of your bean garden are still there but in the form of a cute little fuzz ball. Recover your investment. Shoot, cook, and eat the little b***ard before some local cat, hawk, or coyote does it for you. Rabbits are nature’s protein candy.


58 posted on 05/28/2013 6:42:43 AM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: Vaquero

Probably was.

That one reason why I always skin wild pigs. They are full of fly larva.


59 posted on 05/28/2013 6:45:26 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: 2nd Amendment

If you were near me in East York (PA), I’d bring over my Class III (SBR, suppressed) AR-15, and get him for you.


60 posted on 05/28/2013 6:46:19 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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