On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 10:20:26 +0000, Ophelia >
wrote:

>On 04/03/2021 18:31, Bruce wrote:
>> On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 10:15:01 -0500, Gary > wrote:
>>
>>> Bruce wrote:
>>>> Gary wrote:
>>>>> My grandfather stayed very healthy up to age 94. Then the "family"
>>>>> decided he shouldn't do certain things that he always loved like rabbit
>>>>> hunting with his dogs. Too old to be out in the woods, they said.
>>>>>
>>>>> From that point, he slowly just wasted away until he died at 97.
>>>
>>>> But think how many rabbits were saved
>>>
>>> Good point. The last time I ate rabbit was one that my grandfather had
>>> killed. I was about 15 years old then.
>>>
>>> The bunnies are cute but they can sometimes get overpopulated and become
>>> very destructive. Didn't that happen once in Australia? I seem to
>>> remember a documentary about that.
>>
>> They shouldn't be here at all, neither should foxes. But the English
>> brought their toys back in the day. And now they're a problem. And
>> then there are cane toads, but they're not the fault of the English.
>>
>===
>
> Gosh! At last, something is not our fault <G>

No, it's not Australians thought cane toads -imported from the
Carribean- would eat the cane beetles that were destroying sugar cane
harvests. But they didn't. They're only good at procreating!

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