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Gettin' soft. #7448001
01/01/22 05:39 PM
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St. Cloud, MN
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Well, the older I get the softer I get. We have a couple rabbits that frequent our back yard so I cut a couple colony traps apart and made bunny shelters with a bale of hay. At least one of the little beggers is happy.
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Re: Gettin' soft. [Re: trapperkeck] #7448050
01/01/22 06:11 PM
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Re: Gettin' soft. [Re: trapperkeck] #7448056
01/01/22 06:15 PM
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I know what you mean. I've got a big possum that eats with my barn cats. He's old and scared up and can't move too fast, and I just let him be.

Re: Gettin' soft. [Re: trapperkeck] #7448126
01/01/22 07:07 PM
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Over there.
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Over there.
I thought MN had to cold of a climate for giraffes?

Re: Gettin' soft. [Re: trapperkeck] #7448135
01/01/22 07:13 PM
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I know what you mean trapperkeck. In the deep winter I throw out old apples and carrots for the rabbits around our front door. They are safe in my yard but in the little woods across the road they are called supper.

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Re: Gettin' soft. [Re: Flicker Shad] #7448167
01/01/22 07:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Flicker Shad
I thought MN had to cold of a climate for giraffes?

It just stunts theirs growth.

Re: Gettin' soft. [Re: Flicker Shad] #7448173
01/01/22 07:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Flicker Shad
I thought MN had to cold of a climate for giraffes?

Little known fact, giraffes are tougher than you think. They also get along well with whitetails and hasenpfeffers.


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Re: Gettin' soft. [Re: trapperkeck] #7448179
01/01/22 07:52 PM
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Yep I don’t have the same interest in watching the lion chase the antelope like I did before I guess I know it only ends 2 ways. They release birds just down the road from me and run hunters through 2-3 times a day often then pile up in my trees so we dump them cracked corm an millet seed in the hard times.


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Re: Gettin' soft. [Re: trapperkeck] #7448190
01/01/22 08:02 PM
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I don’t think it’s soft, taking care of the wild life.

Re: Gettin' soft. [Re: trapperkeck] #7448194
01/01/22 08:06 PM
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I was feeling the same way about our rabbits making a come back. Untill they wiped out 2 plantings of cold crops. About a 25 × 60 foot patch. Cost us a few weeks for our csa customers. Now I will shoot them or most likely have the boys do it.

Re: Gettin' soft. [Re: trapperkeck] #7448223
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I,ve created bunny brush piles for 15 years so my Grandkids will have some Grand hunts coming up.


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Re: Gettin' soft. [Re: trapperkeck] #7448233
01/01/22 08:34 PM
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Rabbits need all the help they can get. They are food for so many other wild animals and then throw in free range domestic cats and dogs and they do not stand a chance of surviving.


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Re: Gettin' soft. [Re: trapperkeck] #7448238
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Never seen so many rabbits.Rabbits and blueberry plants not a good combination.160 with apple on trigger seems pretty effective.Foxes don’t seem to come around anymore and the hawks seem to be happy eating birds.I will probably eat more rabbit this year than the last 58 put together-yummy.

Re: Gettin' soft. [Re: Moosetrot] #7448247
01/01/22 08:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Moosetrot
I know what you mean trapperkeck. In the deep winter I throw out old apples and carrots for the rabbits around our front door. They are safe in my yard but in the little woods across the road they are called supper.

Moosetrot

I am out in country with no neighbors close. The rabbits, I knock back some. Figure it is fair payment for the havoc they cause my garden. Wife won't eat them with me. So, I take them out to the cabin and cook them up for myself and the grandsons along with our squirrels.


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Re: Gettin' soft. [Re: trapperkeck] #7448261
01/01/22 08:53 PM
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It's funny because I know I will be cussing them in a few months when they mow down my green beans as soon as they put on two leaves. crazy


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Re: Gettin' soft. [Re: trapperkeck] #7448265
01/01/22 08:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Moosetrot
I know what you mean trapperkeck. In the deep winter I throw out old apples and carrots for the rabbits around our front door. They are safe in my yard but in the little woods across the road they are called supper.

Moosetrot

I am out in country with no neighbors close. The rabbits, I knock back some. Figure it is fair payment for the havoc they cause my garden. Wife won't eat them with me. So, I take them out to the cabin and cook them up for myself and the grandsons along with our squirrels.


you're only allowed so many sunrises... I aim to see every one of them!
Re: Gettin' soft. [Re: trapperkeck] #7448268
01/01/22 08:57 PM
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I know what you are saying trapper, I feed the little animals and the deer in my backyard every winter. It makes it not so important to fill my tags in the fall. Its nice just to watch them.

Re: Gettin' soft. [Re: trapperkeck] #7448299
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I'm going a different direction in my back yard. Live trapping the rabbits and squirrels just about got enough for a big meal now.


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