Cable chewing rabbits!

RE: Cable chewing rabbits!

Martin Atkinson — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 14:50:18 GMT

[quote user="Gillian Mostyn"]Michael - why do you shoot rabbits? Genuine question.[/quote]

A man is seeking to join the Glasgow Police force. The Sergeant doing the  interview says:
"Your qualifications all look good, but there is an attitude suitability test that you must take
 before you can be accepted".
 Then, sliding a pistol and a box of ammo across the desk, he says:
 "Take this pistol and go out and shoot six illegal immigrants, six drug dealers, six 
extremists, and a rabbit"
The man being interviewed asks, "Why the rabbit"?  "Excellent" says the Sergeant. "When
can you start"?

Clearly Michael isn't even as tolerant as the Glasgow Police.

RE: Cable chewing rabbits!

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 13:38:27 GMT

They are good to eat too.

RE: Cable chewing rabbits!

bob lehner — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:28:18 GMT

Well - I've never shot a rabbit - and have no great wish to do so - but I can see that they are a pest and need controlling.

When I lived in a more arable part of the country you could easily see the devastation they wreaked on the growing crops. Driving at night you could see the fields literally heaving with bunnies.

I guess it's better they be shot than suffer the periodic ravages of myxi.

RE: Cable chewing rabbits!

Gillian Mostyn — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 07:56:15 GMT

[quote user="Michael Woodhouse"] I do enjoy it[/quote]

Thought so.

RE: Cable chewing rabbits!

Michael Woodhouse — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 00:38:06 GMT

[quote user="Gillian Mostyn"]Michael - why do you shoot rabbits? Genuine question.[/quote]

There are so many of them. It's in the name of pest control but I do enjoy it. I don't have access to shooting at night when on call otherwise. If I didn't shoot them someone else would. They are in serious plague proportions. Can shoot many 100's in a night.

I managed to get a study out of it with another member of the forum......

RE: Cable chewing rabbits!

Gillian Mostyn — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 19:59:45 GMT

Give up Wynne - it's pointless.

Michael - why do you shoot rabbits? Genuine question.

RE: Cable chewing rabbits!

Hannah Wynne Richards — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 18:42:30 GMT

They also run around - which raises body temp

Wynne

RE: Cable chewing rabbits!

Michael Woodhouse — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 18:19:48 GMT

I don't believe that a rabbit in a well bedded, reasonably sized cage has suffered harm. That shouldn't need qualifying. What evidence is there that bunnies are dying from hypothermia? More likely pasturella etc.

And I see (and shoot...) a LOT of wild rabbits seen on their own. Thousands per year. They are quite happy for many hours outside in freezing conditions.

RE: Cable chewing rabbits!

Gillian Mostyn — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 18:16:49 GMT

[quote user="Michael Woodhouse"] I don't believe a rabbit in the united kingdom has EVER died from hypothermia. [/quote]

You are wrong. I have seen many.

Rabbits in the wild have the freedom to express normal behaviour. Rabbits in a wooden box 2ft above the ground in a draughty corner of the garden with no bedding? You work it out.

[quote user="Michael Woodhouse"]We had rabbits and guinea pigs as children and they lived outdoors in hutches all weathers and were perfectly happy.[/quote]

Anecdote? I thought you were all about EBM.

RE: Cable chewing rabbits!

Hannah Wynne Richards — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 17:22:51 GMT

You never see a solitary wild rabbit. It's always RABBITS Even if there's snow on the ground, it's just about sub-tropical when they're all crammed together in the burrow. Very different to a solitary rabbit in an uninsulated hutch, with totally inadequate bedding.

Over to the exotics experts (where are you, Gillian and Marie?) on this one

Wynne

RE: Cable chewing rabbits!

Michael Woodhouse — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 17:13:31 GMT

Bollocks Wynne. I don't believe a rabbit in the united kingdom has EVER died from hypothermia. I live in a part of the country plagued by rabbits. They are out and happy when the temperature is minus 15. We had rabbits and guinea pigs as children and they lived outdoors in hutches all weathers and were perfectly happy. We had baby guinea pigs born with 6" of snow on the roof of the hutch.

Stop being soft.

RE: Cable chewing rabbits!

Hannah Wynne Richards — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 17:05:42 GMT

NO NO NO Far too many rabbits live horrible lonely lives stuck in garden hutches and ignored most of the time. As far as heat is concerned, far more die rom hypothermia in winter/fly strike in summer, than indoor rabbits die from overwarm central heating

Wynne

RE: Cable chewing rabbits!

Michael Woodhouse — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 16:59:08 GMT

[quote user="Marie Kubiak"]Hard to eliminate completely as it is a normal behaviour.[/quote]

A hutch in the garden would do it. I'm not sure I agree with keeping an animal like a rabbit in a heated house......

RE: Cable chewing rabbits!

Marie Kubiak — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 12:15:41 GMT

Hard to eliminate completely as it is a normal behaviour. All you can do is protect the cables and offer more enticing alternatives (willow branches, hawthorn twigs etc). If you can't cover all the cables then consider wooden 'child-barriers' to fence off the vulnerable areas without having to confine the rabbit to a hutch for long periods. Ebay do some nice wooden ones that can be configured to a variety of shapes and sizes.

marie

RE: Cable chewing rabbits!

Bob Russell — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 12:00:56 GMT

[quote user="Catriona MacIntyre"]

Careful routing e.g. a few feet up the wall, held with cable hooks (minimum wall damage)

Block access e.g. behind television, computer.

Buy plastic tubing from DIY store, slit up one side with a sharp knife, wrap round any exposed cables

http://www.ukdapper.co.uk/jml-electrical-cable-tidy-p-7420.html

[/quote]

Check Ebay item 160631383598 - much cheaper and variety of sizes and lengths!

RE: Cable chewing rabbits!

bob lehner — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 21:00:09 GMT

'Cable chewing rabbits'.

No accounting for what those time-expired Lib-Dems get up to - next it'll be 'Clegg chomping badgers'...?

RE: Cable chewing rabbits!

Michael Woodhouse — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:42:36 GMT

[quote user="Hannah Wynne Richards"]

Put the rabbit in a hutch unless you're in the room

[/quote]

Clearly!

RE: Cable chewing rabbits!

Catriona MacIntyre — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 18:56:31 GMT

Careful routing e.g. a few feet up the wall, held with cable hooks (minimum wall damage)

Block access e.g. behind television, computer.

Buy plastic tubing from DIY store, slit up one side with a sharp knife, wrap round any exposed cables

http://www.ukdapper.co.uk/jml-electrical-cable-tidy-p-7420.html

RE: Cable chewing rabbits!

Hannah Wynne Richards — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 18:43:27 GMT

Put the rabbit in a hutch unless you're in the room

Wynne