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4 pet rabbits dead in Hennepin County, highly contagious virus confirmed in carcass
KSTP.com ^
| 8/2/22
| Tom Hubbard KSTP
Posted on 08/03/2022 7:34:11 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: Brian Griffin
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posted on
08/03/2022 8:28:56 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Blennos
Wildlife biologists say if rabbits disappear coyotes will begin hunting other animals...such as sheep, goats, cattle and the like.
Rabbits are an essential part of the environment since they are plentiful and grow quickly. You can’t just pluck an entire order of animals out of the environment without having bad effects.
The Portuguese are working on an oral vaccine that can be put in bait:
“Four institutions in Portugal are working on a different approach. Project Fight 2 aims to develop an oral vaccine for RHDV2, incorporated into bait, for the wild rabbit populations of the Iberian Peninsula.”
https://www.science.org/content/article/deadly-virus-killing-wild-rabbits-north-america
To: carriage_hill
“The disease affects both domestic and wild rabbits but poses no risk to humans, authorities say.” Not sure I believe that.
If you can't trust Authorities, who can you trust?
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posted on
08/03/2022 8:49:10 AM PDT
by
null and void
(they promise the jetsons but deliver the flintstones)
To: null and void
If you can't trust Authorities, who can you trust? Well, they are from the government, and they are here to help, right?
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posted on
08/03/2022 8:52:45 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
“The disease affects both domestic and wild rabbits but poses no risk to humans, authorities say.”
Are they still safe to eat?
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posted on
08/03/2022 8:54:06 AM PDT
by
DEPcom
(Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules)
To: null and void
I don’t know, but certainly NOT them.
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posted on
08/03/2022 8:55:18 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Blennos
In my area of NC, all of the rabbits have vanished. I believe the victim of a virus disease — rabbit hemorrhagic disease. No threat to humans. We would always see rabbits running in the yard, but no more, for two years now. I miss the little guys.We haven't seen rabbits in our area for years thanks to the coyotes/coy-wolfs, hawks, owls, and osprey.
To: DEPcom
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posted on
08/03/2022 8:57:19 AM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(The best things in life aren't things.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
“You first...”
We eat wild rabbit here. A lot of rabbits in my area.
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posted on
08/03/2022 9:16:49 AM PDT
by
DEPcom
(Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Turn them loose in the wild. The boas will eat them and they both will die. Problems solved.
wy69
To: packagingguy
Thanks for the link. I imagine that resistant rabbits eventually will emerge and then the population will revive naturally. Rabbits have been around for a very long time.
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posted on
08/03/2022 10:10:47 AM PDT
by
Blennos
To: Labyrinthos
We haven't seen rabbits in our area for years thanks to the coyotes/coy-wolfs, hawks, owls, and osprey. Definitely a prey animal. Everything eats the relatively defenseless rabbits.
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posted on
08/03/2022 10:12:11 AM PDT
by
Blennos
To: whitney69
We’re a little light on boas in Minnesota.
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posted on
08/03/2022 10:30:01 AM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(The best things in life aren't things.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
I meant for them to be caught and turned loose in the wild in Florida to poison the boas down there. They are not at a shortage and it helps both states.
wy69
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
The most important safety measure is to not allow “homosexuals” to get anywhere these rabbits.
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posted on
08/03/2022 12:12:52 PM PDT
by
nagant
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