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Those wascally wabbits.
Bullzeye
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After working until late last night, I woke bleary eyed this morning, poured my coffee, and read the paper on the porch.
As I'm sitting there in my bathrobe, I hear a rustling. It's not a bird-sized rustling, more of a rabbit or squirrel-sized rustling.
As I sat there, I watched one of the biggest cottontails I've ever seen (seriously, it was the size of a small suitcase) wander straight into my backyard and start nibbling on some grass.
Not 5 seconds later, an equally huge rabbit comes bounding across the yard from the same direction, and stops about 5 feet away from the first rabbit and stares him down. Here's where it gets amazing.
They both assumed crouched, lean positions. The second rabbit took off running at the first one, who jumped several feet straight up in the air to avoid him. They squared off again. Second one ran, and the first one jumped again.
Now I'm thinking to myself "They're either males fighting over dominance, or one's trying to mate with the other one".
I sat and watched this fascinating spectacle for about a half hour. They just kept going at it. Eventually they bumped heads and one ran off, with the other in hot pursuit. It was hysterical.
I probably should have given some thought to sneaking away and getting my .22, and I probably could have gotten both of them if I'd been quick, but I didnt want to risk getting caught. 500 feet of a residence and whatnot.
As I'm sitting there in my bathrobe, I hear a rustling. It's not a bird-sized rustling, more of a rabbit or squirrel-sized rustling.
As I sat there, I watched one of the biggest cottontails I've ever seen (seriously, it was the size of a small suitcase) wander straight into my backyard and start nibbling on some grass.
Not 5 seconds later, an equally huge rabbit comes bounding across the yard from the same direction, and stops about 5 feet away from the first rabbit and stares him down. Here's where it gets amazing.
They both assumed crouched, lean positions. The second rabbit took off running at the first one, who jumped several feet straight up in the air to avoid him. They squared off again. Second one ran, and the first one jumped again.
Now I'm thinking to myself "They're either males fighting over dominance, or one's trying to mate with the other one".
I sat and watched this fascinating spectacle for about a half hour. They just kept going at it. Eventually they bumped heads and one ran off, with the other in hot pursuit. It was hysterical.
I probably should have given some thought to sneaking away and getting my .22, and I probably could have gotten both of them if I'd been quick, but I didnt want to risk getting caught. 500 feet of a residence and whatnot.
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"The powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal governmentare few and defined, and will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace negotiation, and foreign commerce"
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"The powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal governmentare few and defined, and will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace negotiation, and foreign commerce"
-James Madison
What brand of coffee do you drink? ;-)
I dunno. I bought it from an organic hippy grocery downtown. It cost me $200, and came with a complementary Jefferson Airplane tape.
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Edited by - William81 on 06/03/2002 01:33:27
Seriously though, sounds like quite a trippy experience. Would the meat or the fur be any good this time of year? Hmm. I've only eaten one rabbit and that was killed after a few good freezes.
Have you ever had "Chock Full O' Nuts" coffee? It's very economical and has a very rich flavor. I'm kind of picky about my coffee after but this stuff was cheap and it tastes great.
You would have to use a gin pole to skin them!!
They have a new invention, that I heard of, it's called eye-glasses.
LOL!!
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Like small suitcases. Or bowling bags.
But they were seriously really big. They must've been the clover-fed spring variety of cottontail.
Bright eyed and....bushy tailed?
We ate so much rabbit,,everytime the dog would bark, we would run under the porch.
Dad gave us 3 small stones and we would have to use them to bring back 3 dead rabbits.
Dad complained that we were bruising the meat so he then made us throw left handed.
When times got really tough, Dad would give us only 2 stones and we would still have to bring back 3 rabbits.
On a really dry year, Dad would make us kids run along side the rabbits to feel their rib cages to see if they had enough meat on 'em to butcher before we could kill them.
"Just my opinion."
"The powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal governmentare few and defined, and will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace negotiation, and foreign commerce"
-James Madison