Rabbits

I reckon Emporia Narzi Goring has a lot to answer for. He should have continued the Great Wall of China to include Australia. That way we wouldn't have a rabbit problem. LOL
Cheers Kev

Yep I agree, more of the underground mutton around than for many a year

I have also seen more rabbits on the move. Not just in the outback but also in the Vic High Country.

I have put it down to the control of the wild dogs. Rabbits would be a food for the dogs, less dogs more rabbits.

Wayne

I agree. We have are seeing a number on property again. Callicivirus did knock them but they must have built up a resistance.

Last year the B****rds, dug under my paving, it was funny when the dog fell through, then i realised i had to redo it all.

Alan

Yep rabbits were almost an endangered species but slowly and surely they are on the way back. I am still yet to see the hoards there were but I am sure it will happen

Can't agree more Mike.

Rabbits are out in a big way in the grampians especially the unburnt areas, right the way across from Brisbane to Burra too ... was thinking of rabbit curry myself actually.

I did my bit on the way to Boyup I ran one over. :-)

But yeah we even saw one at the local nature reserve here in Perth!

a friend in the river land is complaining of rabbits eating her plants...too many of them she says

Recently saw many rabbits @ Old Bar on the Beach.... don't know what they were up to, were'nt dressed in surfing attire. Then down the coast at picturesque Currarong they have a plague of rabbits & Bandicoots but not on the beach. Maybe they need to up the anti in National Parks with rabbit control....
Bring back their natural predators, the Thylacine & the good old Fox. Feral cats also pursue rabbits with gusto & enthusiasm. Remember my uncle @ Norlenbah outside Mudgee as a kid gelliginting rabbit warrens in the company of the late & much missed Gwen Merridth, Aunt Nell played "Hilda" in Blue Hills... Rabbits were back in a few weeks though.
Sorry irrelevant prattle, but what would you expect for a man due for prostate surgery on Wednesday....Hope it all goes well, "Miranda" will loose a good client if it's a failure....

Apparently calicivirus spreads a lot better when there is water around.
With the amount of rain the whole of Australia has had this year I wouldnt be supprised if it dies off a bit.
Cheers

Yes we have them back chomping on the garden plants which means that SWMBO has decreed that a solution must be found again. High speed lead poisoning is the only illness that I have found rabbits do not become imune to.

Nature is much cleverer than human beings.

alastair

mate, they seem to fluctuate up and down round here. They are up in numbers but have been that way since the calcivirus came aboard in the defences. It was always expected that the young would get some vaccination and then the population would wipe them out again when we were least expecting it. Have to make sure the old mixo can have it's share too. It had it's place.

Fewster,

Yep!!!!!!!!!!

Rabbit numbers are up dramatically in the SW and Collie region with most of them not just migrating, but most are now behind the wheel......

..........just look at the road toll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our place is crawling with rabbits like always. Calicivirus never did touch em!

Spotted a couple doing rabbity type things on the exit from the F5 at Narelan last night.
Doing 110 ; )> at the time so I missed them!

Time to load up the old .22 & have the best feed in the bush again. Roast rabbit , Rabbit stew with dumplings , curry rabbit . But yes i have spotted numbers of rabbits out moree nsw (more than normal) when out hunting pigs & the like lately............................................666toy

Yosemite Sam reckons fricasee rabbit is pretty good!