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Wallace and Gromit eat your heart out...

Your neck of the woods eh Jags.... :eeek:
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If batteries dont come with it I doubt if anyone will be interested lol
phredd
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If batteries dont come with it I doubt if anyone will be interested lol
phredd

Too true! :lol:
Millions starving due to drought in Africa.....pensioners struggling to heat their homes due to energy price hikes and pitiful pensions.......... you get my drift ....
and making front page & 6 o'clock news is......... the WereRabbit ffs
17 year old 'licenced gamekeepers' with air rifles?? slow agonising death for the bunny then rolleyes
My daughter heard this on the news - is now it bits and wants mummy to 'go save the bunny' :shock: , and ya know what? I'm daft enough to do it too.
£100 for the Bunny, alive.
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17 year old 'licenced gamekeepers' with air rifles?? slow agonising death for the bunny then rolleyes
My daughter heard this on the news - is now it bits and wants mummy to 'go save the bunny' :shock: , and ya know what? I'm daft enough to do it too.
£100 for the Bunny, alive.

I've seen the 'gamekeepers' on local TV and actually I think they're probably the genuine article, albeit at the bottom of the pile (it's not exactly a glamourous job, even by gamekeeping standards). They might be 17, but I bet they're pretty damn good shots with those air rifles, which if they're as powerful as they're allowed to be without requiring a firearms certificate (20lbs per square inch, IIRC) are quite capable of killing a rabbit quickly and efficiently, providing they hit it in the head. Given that they were both equipped with telescopic sights (possibly with night vision of some kind, I wasn't sure), that's not that unreasonable a thing to achieve. The allotments in question are quite close to houses, so I don't think a more powerful weapon would be appropriate anyway.
If they do shoot it, I hope it ends up in a pie or a stew (or both, given that it's supposed to be so big). I don't think using a humane trap is reasonable as releasing it into a strange area where it has nowhere to hide and no knowledge of the location of food is likely to result in it being shot by a farmer or preyed on by something that eats rabbits.
Point taken DP, but, do ya wanna come explain that to my kid?
bloody news programmes rolleyes
she's still up, distraught about said bunny and men with guns. £200 for the Bunny. alive lol
very very chav!! rolleyes
17 year old marksman!!! :roll:
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Point taken DP, but, do ya wanna come explain that to my kid?
bloody news programmes rolleyes

Fair enough, I'm quite glad I don't have that job.
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Point taken DP, but, do ya wanna come explain that to my kid?
bloody news programmes rolleyes

Fair enough, I'm quite glad I don't have that job.
give it oooo, about 3 more years, and you will wink
Mummy has now resigned to the fact that there will be no TV in the house for at least a week until I know the story is over .... AND i'm gonna have to find one bloody big rabbit from the pet shop tomorrow and call it Lucky before she gets back from dancing at 10am lol :wink:
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Millions starving due to drought in Africa.....pensioners struggling to heat their homes due to energy price hikes and pitiful pensions.......... you get my drift ....
and making front page & 6 o'clock news is......... the WereRabbit ffs
17 year old 'licenced gamekeepers' with air rifles?? slow agonising death for the bunny then rolleyes
My daughter heard this on the news - is now it bits and wants mummy to 'go save the bunny' :shock: , and ya know what? I'm daft enough to do it too.
£100 for the Bunny, alive.

im hoping that my daughter won't see anything of this or my reward will have to be more than yours!!!
and its a feckin long drive too lol
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A small group of allotment holders have now clubbed together to hire two air rifle marksmen with orders to shoot to kill.
Build a fence you tossers :!: I have previously managed to keep Rabbits in, as long as you dig the fence in deep enough you can keep them out.
Personaly I prefer an article along the lines of ....
A small group of giant Ware rabbits hqave chipped in together to club a few dumb allotment owners to death biggrin
I wonder which is the vegtable, the allotment owner or the cabbage.
Mr Tweeky
Having been a "vermin control type person" rolleyes let me disseminate some real info here. A lot of you won’t like it, and it will not do my popularity a whole lot of good, but here it goes.
A rabbits brain is actually tiny, as is its scull. To actually get a “head shot” on a rabbit is not as easy as it sounds, because most of the “head” is made up of mouth and eyes,
There is a pinical reaction that for years every one thought was the indication of a clean “head shot” which was when you hear the slap of the round making contact, the rabbit leaps up to ten foot in the air, but is stone dead, apparently it’s a nervous reaction to the destruction of the brain.
Wrong. Apparently, new research has shown, and it is new, and unsubstantiated, that what in fact is happening is that the round has missed the brain, and cranium by mills, and has actually severed the optic nerves. It is the shock to the system that makes the rabbit leap into the air, then die of shock several minutes later.
Just a theory I know, but even so, makes the 17 yo “marksman” look a bit of a worry.
I only ever hunted rabbits with a .22 lr rifle, and even I had what is now termed “flyers” so maybe my shots where not as good as I thought.
I also did a huge amount of deer management, and yes, killed many many deer, and if anyone would like to know the reason why, I would be more than happy to chat to them. Why did I stop? (maybe this should be in the rant zone)
I’ll tell you why, because after the third time of being buzzed by the local copper chopper, then having some search lights shone in my eyes, being spread-eagled in the mud and physically searched ……………… whilst waving my firearms certificate, and my letter from the landowner stating that I am his deer manager, and explaining loudly who I was. I was still cuffed and taken to the station for the nite, no apology in the morning when my gun was returned, and not a feckin chance of getting a lift back to the car, which is several miles away, including a walk thru populated areas, with a rifle ……………………………….................................. All because? ……………………. All because some dozy City Dweller has decided to buy a ‘Home In The Country’ seen a chap walk past the bottom of her garden with a gun over his shoulder, AND CALLED THE FECKIN COPS :shock:
FFS, if these ppl want to live in the country, at least do a bit of research first. In the country, there are people with guns OK????
Watch me get fecked for this rant lol
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Having been a "vermin control type person" rolleyes let me disseminate some real info here. A lot of you won’t like it, and it will not do my popularity a whole lot of good, but here it goes.
A rabbits brain is actually tiny, as is its scull. To actually get a “head shot” on a rabbit is not as easy as it sounds, because most of the “head” is made up of mouth and eyes,
There is a pinical reaction that for years every one thought was the indication of a clean “head shot” which was when you hear the slap of the round making contact, the rabbit leaps up to ten foot in the air, but is stone dead, apparently it’s a nervous reaction to the destruction of the brain.
Wrong. Apparently, new research has shown, and it is new, and unsubstantiated, that what in fact is happening is that the round has missed the brain, and cranium by mills, and has actually severed the optic nerves. It is the shock to the system that makes the rabbit leap into the air, then die of shock several minutes later.
Just a theory I know, but even so, makes the 17 yo “marksman” look a bit of a worry.
I only ever hunted rabbits with a .22 lr rifle, and even I had what is now termed “flyers” so maybe my shots where not as good as I thought.
I also did a huge amount of deer management, and yes, killed many many deer, and if anyone would like to know the reason why, I would be more than happy to chat to them. Why did I stop? (maybe this should be in the rant zone)
I’ll tell you why, because after the third time of being buzzed by the local copper chopper, then having some search lights shone in my eyes, being spread-eagled in the mud and physically searched ……………… whilst waving my firearms certificate, and my letter from the landowner stating that I am his deer manager, and explaining loudly who I was. I was still cuffed and taken to the station for the nite, no apology in the morning when my gun was returned, and not a feckin chance of getting a lift back to the car, which is several miles away, including a walk thru populated areas, with a rifle ……………………………….................................. All because? ……………………. All because some dozy City Dweller has decided to buy a ‘Home In The Country’ seen a chap walk past the bottom of her garden with a gun over his shoulder, AND CALLED THE FECKIN COPS :shock:
FFS, if these ppl want to live in the country, at least do a bit of research first. In the country, there are people with guns OK????
Watch me get fecked for this rant lol

Personaly killing animals for any reason is not something I have done or would want to do. KIlling them needlesly does annoy me though. I do believe in a fair playing field, if a Rabbit were to take a like to my fave plant or veg I would not look to shoot it I would look to catch it or deter it.
In the overall scheme of things there are some issues that wind me up far more than animal rights.
Mr Tweeky
Pete hun, not sure where that rant came from .... but aint we talking about an oversized bunny eating some vegetables down the local allotment???? :shock:
lol
and yes, it is incredibly difficult to get a clean head shot and instant death - am sure the 'marksman' will end up a local hero and will be tucking into his celebratory rabbit pie regardless though.

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FFS, if these ppl want to live in the country, at least do a bit of research first. In the country, there are people with guns OK????
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Pete some numpty near us purchased a house next to a farm and then spent the next 2 years (untill he gave up and moved) complaining about the smell of cow sh*t and another sat complaining to us that the grass from our fields needed cutting as the wind was blowing the grass seeds all over his garden that boarderd on to said field, of course we were willing to mow 20 acres of good meadow grass at HIS whim simply to stop the problem honest. lol

Also I can see Darkfires point as I find it hard to explian to my daughter that she ( = me rolleyes ) can't adopt every dog, cat or in fact dolphin that is advertised on TV. She once (my daughter not Darkfire :lolsmile tried to get me to chase after a car that had a "we've adopted a dolphin" sticker in the back window, as she reconised it off TV and wanted to
go to their house and stroke the dolphin. confused :? :?
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Pete hun, not sure where that rant came from .

drinkies lol
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Pete hun, not sure where that rant came from .

drinkies lol
:doh: rotflmao
I used to be in a shooting syndicate many years ago ( before my back problems and meeting the ex-wife ) and would only shoot an animal ( Rabbit , Pheasant , Goose , Duck , etc ) if I intended eating it. I owned at one time 2 12 bore shotguns and an 1887 side by side hammer action 410 ( antique shotgun that was made in Belgium ). Now I know there are a lot of people who think that shooting should be stopped and I will not say anything against them , we are all entitled to our opinions how ever much we may disagree with them.
I also used to do Vermin control for local farmers. Rabbits are vermin regardless of how "cute" they look. The tend to dig their burrows at the boundrys of fields and if that field happens to have cows or sheep in them then the farmer almost always looses animals to broken legs ( for those who don't know about farm animal behaviour cows and sheep have a habit of being spooked by just about anything really and they run generally around the boundry of the field which leads them to inevitably stick a holve(sp?) into a burrow at full speed leading to a broken leg that means the animal has to be put down ). When things got bad the farmer used to call me and a few of my mates out , he'd clear the affected fields of livestock and we'd net off all the burrows before sending in the ferrets. The rabbits bolt out into the nets where they were dispatched with a priest ( 14" wooden club with a brass weight on the end which meant instant painless death ). The rabbits were never discarded tho ( unless there was myxamatosis then they were inedible and we were really doing them a favour ) as we sold them to the local game dealer who sent them to France.
I know a lot of people will think that i'm some sort of monster or barbarian for doing what I did, thats your opinion, but I live in a rural area where the Rabbit population is in massive numbers so whatever we did didn't make a dent in the end to the numbers just bought the farmers a couple of months safe time for their livestock. A single cow lost by breaking its leg means a large loss of income for a farmer and with the way that industry is 2-3 losses over a year could finish some of the smaller farms.
Davie
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I used to be in a shooting syndicate many years ago ( before my back problems and meeting the ex-wife ) and would only shoot an animal ( Rabbit , Pheasant , Goose , Duck , etc ) if I intended eating it. I owned at one time 2 12 bore shotguns and an 1887 side by side hammer action 410 ( antique shotgun that was made in Belgium ). Now I know there are a lot of people who think that shooting should be stopped and I will not say anything against them , we are all entitled to our opinions how ever much we may disagree with them.
I also used to do Vermin control for local farmers. Rabbits are vermin regardless of how "cute" they look. The tend to dig their burrows at the boundrys of fields and if that field happens to have cows or sheep in them then the farmer almost always looses animals to broken legs ( for those who don't know about farm animal behaviour cows and sheep have a habit of being spooked by just about anything really and they run generally around the boundry of the field which leads them to inevitably stick a holve(sp?) into a burrow at full speed leading to a broken leg that means the animal has to be put down ). When things got bad the farmer used to call me and a few of my mates out , he'd clear the affected fields of livestock and we'd net off all the burrows before sending in the ferrets. The rabbits bolt out into the nets where they were dispatched with a priest ( 14" wooden club with a brass weight on the end which meant instant painless death ). The rabbits were never discarded tho ( unless there was myxamatosis then they were inedible and we were really doing them a favour ) as we sold them to the local game dealer who sent them to France.
I know a lot of people will think that i'm some sort of monster or barbarian for doing what I did, thats your opinion, but I live in a rural area where the Rabbit population is in massive numbers so whatever we did didn't make a dent in the end to the numbers just bought the farmers a couple of months safe time for their livestock. A single cow lost by breaking its leg means a large loss of income for a farmer and with the way that industry is 2-3 losses over a year could finish some of the smaller farms.
Davie

I think there is one main type of vermin on this planet and it does not hop and have big floppy ears rather 2 legs walks upright and does as it pleases.
So you cant eat a Rabbit with myxamatosis, I have wondered that before. As a disease made by humans I always thought it would be kind of serves you right if it eneded up affecting man. Imagine how much you could sue for smile
Mr Tweeky
ohh BTW can we remove Bugs, nice old chap but too big and stretching the screen.
The Monster/Barbarian debate will rumble on for a while.
If you have been brought up in a City or Town, killing fluffy bunnies is barbaric because you buy your food prepacked in Tescos. It has no visible relationship to the animal - i.e. no tail or ears sticking out.
If you've been brought up on a Farm killing aninals is a way of life. You raise sheep, cattle, pigs, chickens etc. to be slaughtered. You kill vermin just as the town dweller kills vermin - cockroaches, rats etc.
Personally, I believe all prepacked meat should be banned and everyone should see how their meat is actually butchered from the carcass. The debate would be over in seconds.
The is sort debate is pointless because everyone who eats meat is eating a cute animal - live with it or become a vegetarian.
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The Monster/Barbarian debate will rumble on for a while.
If you have been brought up in a City or Town, killing fluffy bunnies is barbaric because you buy your food prepacked in Tescos. It has no visible relationship to the animal - i.e. no tail or ears sticking out.
If you've been brought up on a Farm killing aninals is a way of life. You raise sheep, cattle, pigs, chickens etc. to be slaughtered. You kill vermin just as the town dweller kills vermin - cockroaches, rats etc.
Personally, I believe all prepacked meat should be banned and everyone should see how their meat is actually butchered from the carcass. The debate would be over in seconds.
The is sort debate is pointless because everyone who eats meat is eating a cute animal - live with it or become a vegetarian.

I have always said I would be quite happy to be a veggy but everyone has to do it other wise its kind of pointless.
I think we all know how meat ends up on the shelf, its all been on the tv ya know smile
Mr Tweeky
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I think there is one main type of vermin on this planet and it does not hop and have big floppy ears rather 2 legs walks upright and does as it pleases.
So you cant eat a Rabbit with myxamatosis, I have wondered that before. As a disease made by humans I always thought it would be kind of serves you right if it eneded up affecting man. Imagine how much you could sue for smile
Mr Tweeky
ohh BTW can we remove Bugs, nice old chap but too big and stretching the screen.

I agree with you to a point us humans have a lot to answer for , for a start we're the first and so far only inhabitant of this planet that has the ability to completely destroy it , we're the only species on this world that kills for the sake of killing ( except perhaps fox's , just ask any farmer what happens when a fox gets into a chicken coup .......... 3-400 dead birds and they only eat 1 or 2 ) not for food. As for Myxamatosis its definately a no-no for eating an infected rabbit. I for one having seen far too many rabbits with myxamatosis feel that it was a cruel and unnescessary way to try and control the population. A Rabbit with myxamatosis goes blind and deaf to the point that you can walk right up to it and it will not move, they cannot move properly and suffer far to much thats why I said that we were doing myxi infected rabbits a favour.
Right this is getting waaaayy off now I think this should be allowed to fall off the first page and let us get back to the reason we're all really here :twisted: :twisted: SEX lol
Davie ( i'm not a pervert ... just got an above average sex drive lol )
awww the poor bunny - why do they have to kill it? I have my tiny little bunny sitting on my knee right now and it breaks my heart sad
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awww the poor bunny - why do they have to kill it? I have my tiny little bunny sitting on my knee right now and it breaks my heart sad

funny, I've got my rabbit in my pocket too :giggle:
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I think there is one main type of vermin on this planet and it does not hop and have big floppy ears rather 2 legs walks upright and does as it pleases.
So you cant eat a Rabbit with myxamatosis, I have wondered that before. As a disease made by humans I always thought it would be kind of serves you right if it eneded up affecting man. Imagine how much you could sue for smile
Mr Tweeky
ohh BTW can we remove Bugs, nice old chap but too big and stretching the screen.

I agree with you to a point us humans have a lot to answer for , for a start we're the first and so far only inhabitant of this planet that has the ability to completely destroy it , we're the only species on this world that kills for the sake of killing ( except perhaps fox's , just ask any farmer what happens when a fox gets into a chicken coup .......... 3-400 dead birds and they only eat 1 or 2 ) not for food. As for Myxamatosis its definately a no-no for eating an infected rabbit. I for one having seen far too many rabbits with myxamatosis feel that it was a cruel and unnescessary way to try and control the population. A Rabbit with myxamatosis goes blind and deaf to the point that you can walk right up to it and it will not move, they cannot move properly and suffer far to much thats why I said that we were doing myxi infected rabbits a favour.
Right this is getting waaaayy off now I think this should be allowed to fall off the first page and let us get back to the reason we're all really here :twisted: :twisted: SEX lol
Davie ( i'm not a pervert ... just got an above average sex drive lol )
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Ohh Aberdeenshire, thats where my inlaws live. Somewhere close to fivey castle. I have visited once I know when it was cus the World cup was on when Scotland played Brazil in the opening match. BIt of an advantage having the In laws 700 miles away lol the joy.
Mr Tweeky
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drinkies :drinkies: :drinkies: :drinkies: :drinkies:
Mr Tweeky ( & Mrs Tweeky ) if ya ever back up here visiting the outlaws give me a shout hae a dram of the good stuff.
Davie
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drinkies :drinkies: :drinkies: :drinkies: :drinkies:
Mr Tweeky ( & Mrs Tweeky ) if ya ever back up here visiting the outlaws give me a shout hae a dram of the good stuff.
Davie

Will do biggrin