I Saved Some of my Rabbits

I couldn’t save this rabbit . Walked to the end of my driveway this morning when I heard some deer hounds coming my way and found this pile of rabbit intestines . A owl will open the rabbit up and take the guts out and then fly away with the rabbit . I hate owls kills , because if my dogs were to get to those guts before me they would eat them and rabbit guts are usually full of tapeworms . Then I have to treat the dog that ate them . IMG_2293.jpeg
 
red rick said:
Then I have to treat the dog that ate them .
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There are so many things dogs put in their mouth that give them worms, worrying about rabbit guts is pretty minor. Don't know where you are at, but around here, if you don't treat your dog for Heart-worms, you don't want it to live very long. Along with the removal/prevention of Heart-worms, most of the once-a-month pills also control intestinal worms. Even before Heart-worms became a real problem, I still treated all of my dogs, non-hunting and hunting for worms regularly. Deworming a dog is cheap and easy. Dogs can get intestinal worms just by licking/sniffing the feces of infected dogs and other animals like raccoons and coyotes. Take a dog into the woods and the odds are good it's going to encounter something that will infect them besides rabbit guts.

JMTCs
 
buck460XVR said:
There are so many things dogs put in their mouth that give them worms, worrying about rabbit guts is pretty minor. Don't know where you are at, but around here, if you don't treat your dog for Heart-worms, you don't want it to live very long. Along with the removal/prevention of Heart-worms, most of the once-a-month pills also control intestinal worms. Even before Heart-worms became a real problem, I still treated all of my dogs, non-hunting and hunting for worms regularly. Deworming a dog is cheap and easy. Dogs can get intestinal worms just by licking/sniffing the feces of infected dogs and other animals like raccoons and coyotes. Take a dog into the woods and the odds are good it's going to encounter something that will infect them besides rabbit
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I don’t worry about it . I am a rabbit hunter and have beagles and I know the deal with tapeworms . I just would rather not let them get rabbit guts , or even the rabbit that probably will have fleas on them even in February in my state . The wormer for tapeworms cost a little more than a regular wormer , especially if you get it from the Vet . I buy mine from a hunting dog supply store . It cost me $18 dollars to treat 2 dogs not counting shipping . I treat once and repeat in 28 days . Between my nephew and I , we have 10 beagles . I keep it on hand it happens so often . To kill tapeworms the wormer must have praziquantel in it or equivalent . Most wormers do not have that in them . I also live in a very bad zone for heartworms . I treat my dogs monthly with ivermectin . That is much more serious than a tapeworm . But I am glad you educated me on worms and raccoons .
 
My nephew went rabbit hunting today , I didn’t feel like going since I deer hunted yesterday, the last deer day of the season . I did run my dogs though and saw a pile of fresh bird feathers . I will get out there again one night or early morning and call and see if I can get that female fox . I am finding piles of feathers regularly . This is from my nephews hunt today . IMG_2727.jpeg IMG_2732.jpeg
 
red rick said:
I treat my dogs monthly with ivermectin .
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I did the same with my dogs. Since I have cows, I gave the dogs a dose of injectable Ivermectin 0.1 cc/10 lbs. body weight orally every month. Just squirted it down the throat followed by a dose of honey. According to the veterinarian who recommended it, it kills everything except tapeworms.
 
The predator won tonight , I called in a fox , but it came in from behind me and was light shy . I couldn’t get it out to get a shot on it .

My buddy sent me a picture of this cat that he trapped last night . Resized_20240108_085323.jpeg
 
red rick said:
Lately while running my beagles I have been seeing piles of bird feathers and my dogs have been barking in their kennels , something that they usually don’t do . I tried calling a few nights without any luck . Christmas when I got up and opened my back door to go feed my dogs I smelt what I thought was a skunk as soon as I opened my door . One of the dogs was barking some about 3am that morning . Well when I get up this morning to pee for the 3rd time and I look out my bedroom window and see something that looks different . Then I see it move , it was a fox at the edge of my yard and the cover . I grab my 243 and go to put on my boots . Then I see it getting closer to the house . I put the rifle down and grab my shotgun . Its head was down on the ground tracking . I managed to open the sliding glass door and walk across the porch as he is walking towards me without him even raising his head . I shoot and bang flop , with 00 buckshot . Not quite as exciting as calling one in , but I take them when I see them . View attachment 1186875View attachment 1186874
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Nice looking pelt on that. Hope you're going to tan it? By far our biggest killer of rabbits and other small game is house cats. I have yet to tan one of their skins, but the thought has crossed my mind.
 
I didn’t trap it , a friend of mine did . That was bobcat #40 for him since he started predator hunting about 10 or 12 years ago . He just started trapping 2 years ago . He shoots far more than he traps so far in a season . I don’t know what he does with them . He told me just a couple years ago that he has every cat that he has killed in a freezer . That freezer is bound to be getting full now .

I give mine to a guy that deer hunts and traps around here .
 
Anyone have a beagle that will retrieve ? He does it regularly if he can get through the other dogs . I shot this one but didn’t drop it right there . I knew that I hit it twice . The dogs found it for me . We had a great 1/2 day of hunting . We went 5 for 5 today . IMG_2305.jpeg IMG_2309.jpeg
 
I’m cooking some rabbit stew for supper tonight . I soaked 2 rabbits in some saltwater overnight and cooked them in the crockpot until they were tender . Then I removed them and added my vegetables . I pulled the meat off of the bone and will add that back to the vegetables when they are almost done and make some cornbread . It is smelling good in here . I am glad that I got to hunt yesterday because the wind is blowing hard today . IMG_2313.jpeg
 
some nice pics so far. congrats to taking care pf the predators .

Nice deal on the rabbits , looks like you will enjoy that meal .
 
My dad keeps a single shot 20 ga ready in the house with No 4 shot for critter control. He usually shoots around 20 rabbits a year (and eats them), several woodchucks, and only occasionally can he get a fox or coyote.

Shotguns can make excellent pest control tools.
 
We use them for more than pest around here . My county is a shotgun only county for deer . We pretty much use a shotgun for everything except predators and sometimes on them .
 
Having predators in the area is a sign of a healthy ecosystem. If there were not plentiful prey animals, there would not be predators. Here's a bobcat and a coyote a few days apart at the same location. By no little coincidence they are hunting a large patch of Red Osier Dogwood I planted for the deer. It's just on the other side of the fence. This time of year it is more like a food plot for cottontails, than for the deer. Yet the same day I pulled the cards from my cameras and got these pictures, I saw plenty of rabbits, rabbit tracks and rabbit scat.

Just the cycle of life that the good Lord intended......

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