Today's dilemma.

[betty swollocks]

I've just returned from a quick 30 mile blat round some country lanes.
During my travels, I came across a rabbit sitting in the middle of the road. It made no attempt to scamper off when I went past on my bike, or when I stopped and approached it on foot. Its little nose was twitching and it appeared to look at me with clear, discharge-free eyes, but there were one or two telltale small bald patches where fur should have been.
I suspect that it was in the early stages of myxomatosis.
I picked it up and gently placed it in some long grass underneath a hedge. Did I do right, or should I have dispatched it?

 

[Bigtallfatbloke]

You should go and get checked by a vet immediatly

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

I always dispatch them. If they're allowing you to pick them up, then they're in a bad way and have quite a bit of suffering before they die.

 

[walker]

All the rabbit's I pass are missing fur somewhere. I think its the fighting they do other than the shaggin

 

[Frazer]

I always dispatch them. If they're allowing you to pick them up, then they're in a bad way and have quite a bit of suffering before they die.

How exactly would you go about 'dispatching' them though?

 

[Tetedelacourse]

A good dose of myxomatosis should do the trick.

 

[Bigtallfatbloke]

I could never kill a rabbit...am I a wimp?

 

[Tetedelacourse]

I could never kill a rabbit...am I a wimp?

Not even if it had been responsible for the death of your family?

 

[Bigtallfatbloke]

how could a rabbit kill my family?

 

[trustysteed]

how could a rabbit kill my family?

did you not SEE Frank in Donnie Darko?

 

[domtyler]

You could've got it to read a transcript of one of Users and bonjs 'discussions', it would have soon lost the will to live.

 

[Elmer Fudd]

how could a rabbit kill my family?

Gnaw through your t.v. cable and set the house on fire ??

 

[andyoxon]

I've finished them off before. It's easier in the car though, as you can just drive over the head, and it's more detached than hitting it with a rock.

Nice. Do mixy rabs get picked off by predators - or are sick animals sensed and avoided...I wonder?

 

[Dayvo]

How exactly would you go about 'dispatching' them though?

One of them motorbike dispatch riders would do a good job of it. SPLAT!

 

[Chuffy]

I've had the same dilemma Sweaty. I've always bottled it and left bunny there. Er, is there a less brutal way of knocking them off than whacking with a rock? Yes, I am a mimsy great jessy, deal with it. I know you can 'stretch' them but isn't there a risk that you can pull their wikkle bunny heads clean off?