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Posted by on June 1, 2009, 6:14 am
On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:37:29 GMT, "The Lady Gardener"
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>>Me too!
>You really don't want to know.
>myx·o·ma·to·sis (mik-so'm?-to'sis)
>n. pl. myx·o·ma·to·ses (-sez)
>Yes Myxo is not very pleasant, but neither have been the absolute ravages
>caused by rabbits, an introduced pest, on the Australian landscape. They
>have destroyed viable land (of which we have precious little), they have
>competed with native animals for food - even in the most marginal of land.
>There is little here to keep numbers in check, most Australian animals are
>herbivores, and even those that aren't couldn't hope to prey on rabbits
>often enough to keep numbers under control. Rabbits are an absolute blight
>on this country.
>Joanne in Perth WA
There could have been far more kind ways to rid the land of rabbits.
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Posted by Pat P on June 1, 2009, 3:32 pm
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> On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:37:29 GMT, "The Lady Gardener"
>>>Me too!
>>You really don't want to know.
>>myx·o·ma·to·sis (mik-so'm?-to'sis)
>>n. pl. myx·o·ma·to·ses (-sez)
>>Yes Myxo is not very pleasant, but neither have been the absolute ravages
>>caused by rabbits, an introduced pest, on the Australian landscape. They
>>have destroyed viable land (of which we have precious little), they have
>>competed with native animals for food - even in the most marginal of land.
>>There is little here to keep numbers in check, most Australian animals are
>>herbivores, and even those that aren't couldn't hope to prey on rabbits
>>often enough to keep numbers under control. Rabbits are an absolute
>>blight
>>on this country.
>>Joanne in Perth WA
> There could have been far more kind ways to rid the land of rabbits.
Kinder, yes, but not as effective, unfortunately - although they have become
somewhat resistant over the tears.
One shot at a rabbit and the rest bolt down their burrows. One infected
rabbit can wipe out a whole warren.
Pat
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Posted by NDJoan on June 1, 2009, 4:07 pm
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> One shot at a rabbit and the rest bolt down their burrows. =A0One infecte=
d
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> rabbit can wipe out a whole warren.
I almost *almost* wish we had it here. The city people have been
trapping the cottontails in the "humane" traps and "kindly" let them
out in the country. They are overrunning everything! The fox have
all died off the last couple of years from mange and coyotes have
moved in. Once coyotes move in, fox stay away. Coyotes don't hunt
the rabbits & skunks like the fox did, so they're really becoming
unmanageable. In fact, DH shot a bunny out the back window just this
morning. They chew the tops off the new trees he keeps trying to
plant. The snowshoe hares, which are "normal" for the open areas,
don't do nearly the damage the cottontails do.
Joan
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Posted by Susan Hartman on June 1, 2009, 6:08 pm
NDJoan wrote:
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>> One shot at a rabbit and the rest bolt down their burrows. One infected
>> rabbit can wipe out a whole warren.
>
> I almost *almost* wish we had it here. The city people have been
> trapping the cottontails in the "humane" traps and "kindly" let them
> out in the country. They are overrunning everything! The fox have
> all died off the last couple of years from mange and coyotes have
> moved in. Once coyotes move in, fox stay away. Coyotes don't hunt
> the rabbits & skunks like the fox did, so they're really becoming
> unmanageable. In fact, DH shot a bunny out the back window just this
> morning. They chew the tops off the new trees he keeps trying to
> plant. The snowshoe hares, which are "normal" for the open areas,
> don't do nearly the damage the cottontails do.
>
> Joan
We have a gazillion-jillion bunnies on my Baltimore street this year. In
the past few years, numbers have been way down - probably due to the
resident fox. This year it's a bumper crop...I counted a dozen just
driving down my short block the other night. (DH was driving, that is,
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NOT the bunnies. <VBG>)
Sue
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Posted by Sara on June 2, 2009, 6:08 am
On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:08:00 -0400, Susan Hartman
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>We have a gazillion-jillion bunnies on my Baltimore street this year. In
>the past few years, numbers have been way down - probably due to the
>resident fox. This year it's a bumper crop...I counted a dozen just
>driving down my short block the other night. (DH was driving, that is,
>NOT the bunnies. <VBG>)
>Sue
Not far from you, Sue, in Dover, and we're overrun with bunnies too.
There seem to be lots more than in previous years, and I haven't seen
the foxes that go through my backyard in ages. The (indoor) cat was
all fuzzed up at a deer yesterday morning, but deer are just another
plague. Not that I wish horrible diseases on any of them; it's just
that the natural order is disordered.
Sara
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>You really don't want to know.
>myx·o·ma·to·sis (mik-so'm?-to'sis)
>n. pl. myx·o·ma·to·ses (-sez)
>Yes Myxo is not very pleasant, but neither have been the absolute ravages
>caused by rabbits, an introduced pest, on the Australian landscape. They
>have destroyed viable land (of which we have precious little), they have
>competed with native animals for food - even in the most marginal of land.
>There is little here to keep numbers in check, most Australian animals are
>herbivores, and even those that aren't couldn't hope to prey on rabbits
>often enough to keep numbers under control. Rabbits are an absolute blight
>on this country.
>Joanne in Perth WA