dogs

[daneswalk]

stood watching the harvest being taken in saw the dogs kill four rabbits which i thought was sad i have a cocker spaniel and i wouldnt like her to kill any animal

[flump2]

Dont take him tio the harvest? This will soon make him think twice next time a little baby bunny goes hopping past. Failing that send it to thailand an have him made into a nice tasty curry.

[Ethel]

It's not sad - it's nature

[spudqueen]

The farmer is probably glad to get rid of a few rabbits, if they just bred and bred (which rabbits are apt to do!) they would eat all his crop.

[spudqueen]

The farmer is probably glad to get rid of a few rabbits, if they just bred and bred (which rabbits are apt to do!) they would eat all his crop.

And you can't impose human values on an animal. How would a lion get by if it didn't kill anything?

[spudqueen]

Oops - don't know what happened there!

[fredpuli47]

Don't fret.Nature intends rabbits to be killed by other animals.That's why rabbits breed so fast,run so fast, have a warning white scut, have excellent hearing (hence the big ears to catch the sound) and dig burrows to shelter and sleep in.Evolution has meant that the species has the means to avoid being wiped out.Conversely, if there were no predators there'd be so many rabbits that the rabbits would starve.

Your cocker spaniel would kill an animal if she had the chance and the animal triggered her instinctive hunt and kill behaviour.Dogs are not vegetarians !

But , seeing it happen can take a bit of getting used to.

[terambulan]

Rabbits dig holes in fields causing livestock to break their legs when stumbling into them. This results in the livestock being put down.

Dont waste the killed rabbits, as that's worse. Feed them to the dogs or make yourself a rabbit casserole and feed the left-overs to the pets.