Rabbits are dumb!

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~patches~ said:

Last year a rabbit started hanging out around the yard. It looks to be
a cast-off pet as I can get within a foot of it. I shooed it off
everytime I saw it. I didn't find any evidence of it being in the
gardens. The past week or so, it has reappeared and there are signs of
damage in the garden. It has nipped off anything that is sprouting in
the vegetable including herbs and flower gardens. Now this is war! I
sprinkled a healthy dose of cayenne pepper around the vegetable beds to
discourage it before I start planting. The darn thing has clipped a lot
of DH's sprouting business - maple trees - so more cayenne pepper. I
have no choice but to trap this thing. I'm tempted to turn the little
bugger into rabbit stew! Any good recipes?

There are a number of ways to prepare bunny.
My personal favorite is southern fried...
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

On Thu 16 Mar 2006 11:30:43a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it ~patches~?

Quoted message said:

Last year a rabbit started hanging out around the yard. It looks to be
a cast-off pet as I can get within a foot of it. I shooed it off
everytime I saw it. I didn't find any evidence of it being in the
gardens. The past week or so, it has reappeared and there are signs of
damage in the garden. It has nipped off anything that is sprouting in
the vegetable including herbs and flower gardens. Now this is war! I
sprinkled a healthy dose of cayenne pepper around the vegetable beds to
discourage it before I start planting. The darn thing has clipped a lot
of DH's sprouting business - maple trees - so more cayenne pepper. I
have no choice but to trap this thing. I'm tempted to turn the little
bugger into rabbit stew! Any good recipes?

Aw, but they're so cute!

I used to like Hasenpfeffer until I had a pet rabbit.

--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
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BIOYA

"Wayne Boatwright" <wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

On Thu 16 Mar 2006 11:30:43a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it ~patches~?

Quoted message said:

Last year a rabbit started hanging out around the yard. It looks to be
a cast-off pet as I can get within a foot of it. I shooed it off
everytime I saw it. I didn't find any evidence of it being in the
gardens. The past week or so, it has reappeared and there are signs of
damage in the garden. It has nipped off anything that is sprouting in
the vegetable including herbs and flower gardens. Now this is war! I
sprinkled a healthy dose of cayenne pepper around the vegetable beds to
discourage it before I start planting. The darn thing has clipped a lot
of DH's sprouting business - maple trees - so more cayenne pepper. I
have no choice but to trap this thing. I'm tempted to turn the little
bugger into rabbit stew! Any good recipes?

Aw, but they're so cute!

So are deer, except that some of them also need to die before my garden gets
going this season.

~patches~ said:

Last year a rabbit started hanging out around the yard. [snip] I
have no choice but to trap this thing. I'm tempted to turn the little
bugger into rabbit stew! Any good recipes?

I don't know if this particular bunny would be a good choice. But this
link is to a good recipe for Rabbit with Mustard Sauce, a classic, and
delicious. -aem

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/101107

Why not contact your local animal shelter, borrow a humane trap, and
catch him? He probably was a pet, and should be given a proper home
somewhere!

OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

~patches~ said:

Last year a rabbit started hanging out around the yard. It looks to be
a cast-off pet as I can get within a foot of it. I shooed it off
everytime I saw it. I didn't find any evidence of it being in the
gardens. The past week or so, it has reappeared and there are signs of
damage in the garden. It has nipped off anything that is sprouting in
the vegetable including herbs and flower gardens. Now this is war! I
sprinkled a healthy dose of cayenne pepper around the vegetable beds to
discourage it before I start planting. The darn thing has clipped a lot
of DH's sprouting business - maple trees - so more cayenne pepper. I
have no choice but to trap this thing. I'm tempted to turn the little
bugger into rabbit stew! Any good recipes?

There are a number of ways to prepare bunny.
My personal favorite is southern fried...

The trap is going in tonight so if all goes well, I might just be
looking for bunny recipes 😉

Wayne Boatwright said:

On Thu 16 Mar 2006 11:30:43a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it ~patches~?

Quoted message said:

Last year a rabbit started hanging out around the yard. It looks to be
a cast-off pet as I can get within a foot of it. I shooed it off
everytime I saw it. I didn't find any evidence of it being in the
gardens. The past week or so, it has reappeared and there are signs of
damage in the garden. It has nipped off anything that is sprouting in
the vegetable including herbs and flower gardens. Now this is war! I
sprinkled a healthy dose of cayenne pepper around the vegetable beds to
discourage it before I start planting. The darn thing has clipped a lot
of DH's sprouting business - maple trees - so more cayenne pepper. I
have no choice but to trap this thing. I'm tempted to turn the little
bugger into rabbit stew! Any good recipes?

Aw, but they're so cute!

Yeah, they are really cute until they start feasting on your garden.
All that time and effort will be down the tubes and your reward is a fat
grinning rabbit running around your yard. Nope the thing has to go and
the sooner the better!

Quoted message said:

I used to like Hasenpfeffer until I had a pet rabbit.

Mary said:

Why not contact your local animal shelter, borrow a humane trap, and
catch him? He probably was a pet, and should be given a proper home
somewhere!

Our human society rents the humane traps for less than we can buy one.
I'm using my neighbours. The only proper home this little bugger
deserves is in my tummy at the moment. I'll calm down and will more
than likely do a release but right now I'm a little ticked off!

Mary said:

Why not contact your local animal shelter, borrow a humane trap, and
catch him? He probably was a pet, and should be given a proper home
somewhere!

A good idea, assuming your local shelter says they deal with rabbits.

Meanwhile, here's a link to pictures of different kinds of rabbits. My
guess is yours is a cottontail. This website also has a long list of
recipes. -aem

http://rabbithuntingonline.com/rabbits.htm

"~patches~" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Wayne Boatwright said:

On Thu 16 Mar 2006 11:30:43a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it
~patches~?

Quoted message said:

Last year a rabbit started hanging out around the yard. It looks to be a
cast-off pet as I can get within a foot of it. I shooed it off everytime
I saw it. I didn't find any evidence of it being in the gardens. The
past week or so, it has reappeared and there are signs of damage in the
garden. It has nipped off anything that is sprouting in the vegetable
including herbs and flower gardens. Now this is war! I sprinkled a
healthy dose of cayenne pepper around the vegetable beds to discourage it
before I start planting. The darn thing has clipped a lot of DH's
sprouting business - maple trees - so more cayenne pepper. I have no
choice but to trap this thing. I'm tempted to turn the little bugger
into rabbit stew! Any good recipes?

Aw, but they're so cute!

Yeah, they are really cute until they start feasting on your garden. All
that time and effort will be down the tubes and your reward is a fat
grinning rabbit running around your yard. Nope the thing has to go and
the sooner the better!

$100 will get you a nice, quiet pellet rifle that's accurate enough for
about 300 feet. Bye bye bunny.

~patches~ said:

Last year a rabbit started hanging out around the yard. It looks to be
a cast-off pet as I can get within a foot of it. I shooed it off
everytime I saw it. I didn't find any evidence of it being in the
gardens. The past week or so, it has reappeared and there are signs of
damage in the garden. It has nipped off anything that is sprouting in
the vegetable including herbs and flower gardens. Now this is war! I
sprinkled a healthy dose of cayenne pepper around the vegetable beds to
discourage it before I start planting. The darn thing has clipped a lot
of DH's sprouting business - maple trees - so more cayenne pepper. I
have no choice but to trap this thing. I'm tempted to turn the little
bugger into rabbit stew! Any good recipes?

If it is that friendly, why not catch it and put it in a cage?
If you want to cook it, kill it, gut it and skin it. Cut it into serving
pieces, dredge in flour, brown it in fat, add the usually veggies for a
stew.

Wayne Boatwright said:

Quoted message said:

bugger into rabbit stew! Any good recipes?

Aw, but they're so cute!

I used to like Hasenpfeffer until I had a pet rabbit.

Rabbit is one thing I never had at home when I was a kid. My father was raised
on rabbit ranch during the depression and ate so much rabbit that he never
wanted to eat rabbit again.

On Thu 16 Mar 2006 12:44:17p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it ~patches~?

Quoted message said:

Wayne Boatwright said:

On Thu 16 Mar 2006 11:30:43a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it
~patches~?

Quoted message said:

Last year a rabbit started hanging out around the yard. It looks to be
a cast-off pet as I can get within a foot of it. I shooed it off
everytime I saw it. I didn't find any evidence of it being in the
gardens. The past week or so, it has reappeared and there are signs of
damage in the garden. It has nipped off anything that is sprouting in
the vegetable including herbs and flower gardens. Now this is war! I
sprinkled a healthy dose of cayenne pepper around the vegetable beds to
discourage it before I start planting. The darn thing has clipped a
lot of DH's sprouting business - maple trees - so more cayenne pepper.
I have no choice but to trap this thing. I'm tempted to turn the
little bugger into rabbit stew! Any good recipes?

Aw, but they're so cute!

Yeah, they are really cute until they start feasting on your garden.
All that time and effort will be down the tubes and your reward is a fat
grinning rabbit running around your yard. Nope the thing has to go and
the sooner the better!

Why not trap it and release it far, far away?

--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
____________________

BIOYA

"Doug Kanter" wrote

Quoted message said:

"Wayne Boatwright" wrote >

Quoted message said:

patches wrote:
I'm tempted to turn the little

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

bugger into rabbit stew! Any good recipes?

Aw, but they're so cute!

So are deer, except that some of them also need to die before my garden
gets going this season.

We're overrun with deer. We can't build a fence because of community
association restrictive covenants, yet last year they stripped the tomato
vines, the cucumbers, the hydrangeas, the peonies, my oriental lilies as
they were two or three inches high and any other green thing they could get
their teeth into. Naturally, they maraud in the middle of the night so we
don't see them (just their tracks). Very disheartening.

Dora

aem said:

Mary said:

Why not contact your local animal shelter, borrow a humane trap, and
catch him? He probably was a pet, and should be given a proper home
somewhere!

A good idea, assuming your local shelter says they deal with rabbits.

Meanwhile, here's a link to pictures of different kinds of rabbits. My
guess is yours is a cottontail. This website also has a long list of
recipes. -aem

http://rabbithuntingonline.com/rabbits.htm

Nope, not a cottontail. It is pure black and obviously was someone's
pet at one time because it has no fear of people. Thanks for the link.

Dave Smith said:

Wayne Boatwright said:

Quoted message said:

bugger into rabbit stew! Any good recipes?

Aw, but they're so cute!

I used to like Hasenpfeffer until I had a pet rabbit.

Rabbit is one thing I never had at home when I was a kid. My father was raised
on rabbit ranch during the depression and ate so much rabbit that he never
wanted to eat rabbit again.

That's what I intend to do unless I chicken out and do the release thing
whick I likely will.

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Doug Kanter said:

"~patches~" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Wayne Boatwright said:

On Thu 16 Mar 2006 11:30:43a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it
~patches~?

>Last year a rabbit started hanging out around the yard. It looks to be a
>cast-off pet as I can get within a foot of it. I shooed it off everytime
>I saw it. I didn't find any evidence of it being in the gardens. The
>past week or so, it has reappeared and there are signs of damage in the
>garden. It has nipped off anything that is sprouting in the vegetable
>including herbs and flower gardens. Now this is war! I sprinkled a
>healthy dose of cayenne pepper around the vegetable beds to discourage it
>before I start planting. The darn thing has clipped a lot of DH's
>sprouting business - maple trees - so more cayenne pepper. I have no
>choice but to trap this thing. I'm tempted to turn the little bugger
>into rabbit stew! Any good recipes?

Aw, but they're so cute!

Yeah, they are really cute until they start feasting on your garden. All
that time and effort will be down the tubes and your reward is a fat
grinning rabbit running around your yard. Nope the thing has to go and
the sooner the better!

$100 will get you a nice, quiet pellet rifle that's accurate enough for
about 300 feet. Bye bye bunny.

$27.00 at Wal-Mart for a cheap Crossman.
But there are better ones.
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

"limey" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

"Doug Kanter" wrote

Quoted message said:

"Wayne Boatwright" wrote >

Quoted message said:

patches wrote:
I'm tempted to turn the little

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

> bugger into rabbit stew! Any good recipes?

Aw, but they're so cute!

So are deer, except that some of them also need to die before my garden
gets going this season.

We're overrun with deer. We can't build a fence because of community
association restrictive covenants, yet last year they stripped the tomato
vines, the cucumbers, the hydrangeas, the peonies, my oriental lilies as
they were two or three inches high and any other green thing they could
get their teeth into. Naturally, they maraud in the middle of the night
so we don't see them (just their tracks). Very disheartening.

Dora

I may have a solution. I understand they don't like having their feet
interfered with. I have a lot of 6' fence wire. I'm thinking of laying it on
the ground, but bending every other row of squares upward in a triangular
shape in a way that would annoy even people. I'll just drag it away from the
vegetable garden when I need to access it, or mow around it. We'll see.....

In article <[email hidden]>,

limey said:

"Doug Kanter" wrote

Quoted message said:

"Wayne Boatwright" wrote >

Quoted message said:

patches wrote:
I'm tempted to turn the little

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

> bugger into rabbit stew! Any good recipes?

Aw, but they're so cute!

So are deer, except that some of them also need to die before my garden
gets going this season.

We're overrun with deer. We can't build a fence because of community
association restrictive covenants, yet last year they stripped the tomato
vines, the cucumbers, the hydrangeas, the peonies, my oriental lilies as
they were two or three inches high and any other green thing they could get
their teeth into. Naturally, they maraud in the middle of the night so we
don't see them (just their tracks). Very disheartening.

Dora

Low hotwires...
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson