Posted on 02/03/2015 2:01:23 PM PST by bkopto
A "huge flock" of jackrabbits in a Fargo, North Dakota, neighborhood has homeowners feeling jumpy.
More than 50 jackrabbits the size of small dogs have been hopping around backyards and a park of a new development in South Fargo, resident Kayla Straabe told ABC News today.
"Every day, I feel like the crazy rabbit lady chasing them out of the yard where they're having a hay day," Straabe said. "There's at least 40 to 50 everyday, and they're in our yards and by a children's park."
She said the city pest control department told her that they couldn't do anything about the jackrabbits, technically wild hares, because they were wild animals.
"I was told we should poison them, which I will absolutely not do," Straabe said.
There is no city ordinance that deals with depopulating rabbits in the area, Fargo Police Lt. Joel Vettel told ABC News.
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They need to catch some of these jackrabbits and release them in Plains, Georgia.
This kind of stuff is why I love FR. LOL
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>>You might not drop them on there on the spot [from a pellet hit] but they would die somewhere.
I’m not so sure. See mcshot’s comments in post #64.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3253690/posts?page=64#64
The hindquarters make excellent bait for bobcat traps.
The numbers are too close to .22.
lol - and as much as I love our pet rabbits (we’ve had 10 in our lives) - these are feral and in the least, they should end up on a plate....In college we had a field practicum out in the woods, the prof took some students to his house to kill some domestic (escapee) rabbits that lived under his barn - they came back with a pile - we roasted them over a wood fire and enjoyed one of the best meals of my life.
brisket is tough when its cooked poorly too - IMO if theres plenty of rosemary, garlic, olive oil and a patient hand at the oven, you can make a shoe taste good.....we eat tripe in our family....on its own it is nasty and smelly - boil it for 4 hrs in diluted vinegar (windows open) and then a tomato sauce for 10 hrs and you have a piece of heaven
what a happy little guy - I bet he/she is a lot of fun
This is so funny. I grew up in rural NW Iowa which is highly populated with these creatures.
After college I moved to the city and married a lifelong suburb-dweller. He always made fun of me for calling our tiny little yard guests “bunnies” while he called them “rabbits.” I just laughed and said “you’ve never seen a rabbit.”
So one day, when we were on our way to visit my parents, a rather smallish jackrabbit ran in front of the car. His reaction was priceless. I was like “My dear, THAT is a rabbit”...LOL!
with or without a side of tularemia? I wouldn’t go near wild rabbit.
Next you'll be singing the praises of sod poodle, rock chuck, and muskrat - a.k.a. swamp rabbit.
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