Posted on 07/17/2023 11:25:06 AM PDT by devane617
I have a outdoor country cat. She lets nothing come onto her property, else she kills it. Rabbits, squirrels, mice and birds if they are drinking water.
In 1962 my family moved into a larger home, the previous owner had a coffee full of marbles next to a slingshot, in the garage. I asked him what they were for. His answer; “Rabbits”.
Or Gerbils?........................
Ok. Tofu.
Have always heard the same for oysters.
They'd drive them into a chickenwire corral, then jump in with clubs for slaughter. The whole town got much-needed protein.
Many years later, Grandad still raised and ate rabbits, mostly stewed with vegetables. I thought it was mighty good, but Mrs. Zooker couldn't handle the idea of eating those cute little pets...
You could trap them, too.
I could see it on the wild cotton tail rabbits but these things are basically tame and cute. I couldn't bring myself to shoot one.
The original owner should be cited and forced to foot the bill to trap and relocate them to some rabbit sanctuary.....
The Goodies sent rabbits to the moon, it didn’t work out well.
A 20 dollar bounty on live trapping them would take care of the problem rather than just shooting and killing them.
Here in Memphis we have a mostly perennials garden, shaded, ornamental tree’d yard. I did that so I can spend my spare time pulling weeds instead of cutting grass.....Our cat has made it a personal responsibility to slaughter any moles, lizards, mice, rats, or frogs-toads, coming onto the property. Because it’s shady and irrigated, a lot of critters seek the cooler, shaded, damp habitat. So in the summer we try to limit outdoors access.
I had to look it up....
Rabbits and other rodents are subject to tularemia. That is a disease that is harmful or fatal to humans. An infected rabbit will eventually have white spots on its liver. One should always wear rubber gloves and take other precautions when dressing rabbits. Cooking will kill the disease. The assumption is that sick rabbits will die when the weather gets colder, so one should not hunt rabbits until cold weather. This assumption is not necessarily true, but it is the source of the cold weather tradition.
I don’t know about oysters.
Fleas, ticks, and the belief that they have parasites and other diseases.
From what I just read, most of that is just myth driven......
Nothing tastes like chicken except actual chicken.
But domestic rabbit is a very mild meat.
Wild rabbit tastes like what ever they have been eating which means sometimes it is yummy and other times.... not so much.
Maybe we should teach them to eat bacon...................
Rodents in Florida tend to look awful. The squirrels look like sunburned naked mole rats with hairless tails. The fleas, skeeters, lice, etc... really take a toll on them. They start to look better by Thanksgiving, good by new years, then downhill again in May.
My Nona would be in the kitchen 24/7 if she lived in that neighborhood, LOL.
In a sci-fi book I read there was a cat/bunny cross as a pet that dined on strawberries and bacon.
It probably would have been tasty.
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