Why don't we learn from the lessons of the past?

Kendo · Senior Member

Why don't we learn from the lessons of the past?

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Some mangy looking rabbits in that second pic Jeff.

I assume you had rabbit stew that night, then what was left, cold on toast the next morning for breaky confuse

Bruce and Bev · Guru

Why don't we learn from the lessons of the past?
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Its not just rabbits we don't learn from our lessons of the past - not only humanity, but individually !! ( feeling a little philosophical today lol)

hako · Guru

At least in Queensland we are aware. Queensland has the toughest anti-rabbit regime in the world, with penalties of $44,000 and six months in prison if you are caught in possession of rabbit.
Doesn't take into account 'human' rabbits however.

Good Luck.

aussietraveller · Guru

So much for previous Rabbit control measures I wonder what will be next, interestingly when I was a teenager we used to go Rabbit shooting on a property near Tumut and sell the Rabbits for $2.00 each in the Caravan park, but not allowed to own a rifle anymore without licence an special storage facility, old days rifles at home bolts at mates place.

done dreaming · Senior Member

Because they took our guns and traps off of us.How many traps do you see hanging up in pubs around aus as nostalgia items of a bygone year.We used to sell rabbits $2 a pair in the pubs

Aus-Kiwi · Guru

We've gone soft.. At least they don't claim Centrelink !

Pete49 · Senior Member

I earned enough from rabbit trapping between 13 and 15 to buy my first motor bike and a 22 auto and they were 4 bob a pair dressed. In the those days early 60's it wasn't unusual to see lads heading out on a Friday afternoon with a rifle a few traps and a swag.

Pete

peterwm · Veteran Member

Kendo wrote:
A trip to Moonta ealier this year revealed a caravan Park with a substantial Rabbit population, a visit to Tanunda a few weeks ago had exactly the same thing.

An extract from THE BUNNY BULLETIN - Scary Numbers: Rabbit Reproduction Rates. One female rabbit and her offspring can theoretically produce 50,653 rabbits in three years, 69 million in five years and 64 BILLION in seven years!

Ah yes but they are cute and cuddly, just like the pair of pet rabbits the woman was chasing this morning while on my morning walk.

With age comes wisdom, sometimes age arrives on it's own!!!!!!!!!!1

Santa · Guru

Rabbits are not a problem in the Moonta area, we seldom see one.

Perhaps they are all down at the caravan park.

No rabbits in QLD eh? biggrin

http://www.qt.com.au/news/rabbit-plague-infests-city/1757841/

Kendo · Senior Member

Not just in the caravan park Elmer. Your heritage listed and very expensively restored foreshore is full of them.

Baz421 · Guru

done dreaming wrote:
Because they took our guns and traps off of us.How many traps do you see hanging up in pubs around aus as nostalgia items of a bygone year.We used to sell rabbits $2 a pair in the pubs

Me too,, sold em for $ after school good pocket money. I think I was 14 (as I couldn't own a rifle until 15) so with a neighbour we would go out all night into wheat stubble paddocks near Murray Bridge and earn 15 POUNDS EACH after fuel money.

That was more than some earnt in a week in 1965.

Yes we had a cleanup Friday and traps need be disposed of now,, found a few.

Radar · Guru

Have a look around the Qld NSW border the new pickly pear cacti shots that coming up every where, now that is a worry also.