In article >, =?iso-8859-1?b?SmXfdXM=?= > wrote:
>On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:39:17 +0000, Phred wrote:
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>> And frozen rabbits are making an appearance in our supermarkets here in
>> the deep north of the deep south too -- rabbit is a traditional food of
>> the Depression era here in Oz. (But fresh, not frozen. And free for
>> the catching back then.
>
>And still is free for the catching.
>Bunny has become one of my favourite meats now, no shortage of them here
>(rural NE Tas). In fact I rarely even need to leave the property for if
>only after a couple of rabbits at a time.

Actually, live rabbits only arrived here in the deep north a decade or
so ago. But they were on the McBride Plateau (between Mt Garnet and
Charters Towers) at least 20 years before that. They've never been
common locally AFAIK (I saw one in the front yard on two occasions
about a week apart five years ago, but none since.)

[For those who may be reading in other parts, I should mention that my
comment " rabbit is a traditional food of the Depression era here in
Oz" applied in the southern parts of Oz, not here in the tropics.]

I'm interested in your mention of plentiful rabbits in NE Tassie.
Does that mean the populations are recovering from the attempts to
wipe them out with myxo and colichi(sp.?) or weren't those two
diseases introduced to Tasmania?

Cheers, Phred.

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LID