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My grandfather used to raise about 8 or 9 rabbits twice or three times per year. He kept a buck and doe. When the little ones were 2 weeks old they were removed from their mother and begun on rabbit food. If you leave the babies where the buck can get to them, the will kill them and eat them. Anyway, my grandfather loved those rabbits. He would pet them and sit in a lawn chair and pet them. Then, the day they turned 8 weeks old he would go out and pick them up by the hind legs. Once they were just hanging down he took what looked like a small baseball bat and hit them just behind the head. They never moved or knew what happened. Then he would skin them and not get one hair on the flesh. That was a big item with my grandmother. We ate a lot of rabbits. Smothered or dumplings, sometimes like chicken fried steak. Squirril pretty much the same taste.

As you all know the rabbit is not a member of the family Rodentia. It is a member of the Family Lagomorphae. The differentiation has to do with the fact that they have 2 pairs of upper and lower incisors whereas the Rodents have a single pair of incisors.

Both are very tasty if properly prepared.

My grandfather used to tell me that in East Texas, wild rabbits would carry "wolves" in their flesh. That was a type of parasite. If a rabbit was killed in the hot summer months the "wolves" were present and made the flesh inedible. If, however, they were killed once the weather turned cool, the parasite could not be found.

That is pretty much all I know about rabbits.

That is pretty much all I know about rabbits.

Jeez. Sounds like enough.

Tho I would never eat one, if people want to raise rabbits for meat, that's their thing. What I don't get is petting them, etc., then killing them. Just fatten 'em up in a pen and be done with it.