Australia- I'm looking at you crossways

[CandiCame]

Pictured: The Enemy
Solution: Germ Warfare?

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I just learned about this-

Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease and I'm calling you out like you factory farmed. I was researching things about rabbits for my story- something to balance out the were-factors Xac has, the healing & whatnot, with a disease or something- and I found this horrible shit that makes rabbits heads basically explode so that they bleed from all orifices, shake, fall over and die.

Apparently this disease was manufactured by humans- in Australia- to kill rabbits that were eating their crops. Yeah, they do that here to guys- you don't manufacture horrible seizure death. You don't resort to germ warfare- on bunnies. And I'm not just saying that as the whole, vegetarian, artist, faggy, "Bunnies are cute guy." I'm putting the redneck hat on (is now ironically realizing could possibly cosplay as Joseph or- on a pale day if I don't take it off, possibly Dale Gribble- files away for later)-

Motherfuckers, if you need a bunch of rabbits dead, you can shoot, cook and eat them- hell, you can trap wild ones and raise them for food within one generation- or, you know, get a cat, or a dog; some dogs eat rabbits. I've never known a cat that didn't- cats will bring you dead rabbits and be like, "So you eat these, right? That one's on me." Of course, they also do that with pidgeons, rats, snakes, squirrles, frogs, etc- but not all of that is edible... Anyway- my point is- WTF!? Seriously- what made you think you needed to create some horrible, painful disease? To kill bunnies!? WTF?

 

[warrior queen]

Candi, I like you - but you are woefully uninformed about the rabbit problem in Australia.
They were introduced for sport by the British, got loose into the bush, and bred like, well, rabbits.
Now we have 100,000,000 of them. There are not enough predators to keep them in check.
They are systematically destroying the natural habitat of many seriously endangered species, and I'm sorry, but I would much rather see the Bilby thriving than the bunny.

Currently, the control methods in use are killing between 10 and 20 million per year. Which is doing nothing to control their out-of-control breeding and destruction.

They are an introduced pest and something needs to be done to fix the problem.

 

[Liar]

Motherfuckers, if you need a bunch of rabbits dead, you can shoot, cook and eat them- hell, you can trap wild ones and raise them for food within one generation- or, you know, get a cat, or a dog; some dogs eat rabbits. I've never known a cat that didn't- cats will bring you dead rabbits and be like, "So you eat these, right? That one's on me." Of course, they also do that with pidgeons, rats, snakes, squirrles, frogs, etc- but not all of that is edible... Anyway- my point is- WTF!? Seriously- what made you think you needed to create some horrible, painful disease? To kill bunnies!? WTF?

You are apparently unaware of the scale of the rabbit problem in Australia, just how out of control they are and the havoc they wreak on the eco system.

I saw an estimation there are about 200 million of them. Good luck deploying cats.

 

[girlsmiley]

Myxomatosis.

Yeah. Teh bunnehs are immune now. I think.

I'm pretty sure.

Wascally widdle wabbits.

 

[CandiCame]

Candi, I like you - but you are woefully uninformed about the rabbit problem in Australia.
They were introduced for sport by the British, got loose into the bush, and bred like, well, rabbits.
Now we have 100,000,000 of them. There are not enough predators to keep them in check.
They are systematically destroying the natural habitat of many seriously endangered species, and I'm sorry, but I would much rather see the Bilby thriving than the bunny.

Currently, the control methods in use are killing between 10 and 20 million per year. Which is doing nothing to control their out-of-control breeding and destruction.

They are an introduced pest and something needs to be done to fix the problem.

You still couldn't find a more humane way then hemorrhaging to death? Plus- now, according to GS, you have super-disease resistant bunny's, because 4th grade science says that there's always a 5% disease resistance, even in horrible plagues, because that's how evolution works- so best case scenario, you have 5 million rabbits, who are immune, reproducing like rabbits, so the BEST solution is you still have a rabbit population. I don't understand why you went germ warfare and not "capture and eat" like we did. You could sell that meat here- Americans (in the south at least) would love to see prices drop in cities, where you have to drive out to hunt. Why create a vicious cycle of disease-immune superbunnies hyper-evolving- because their generations pass faster then human generations- until you have some kind of weird Australian super-rabbit like those Scottish Dire (Flemish) Rabbits you see on those pet sites...

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[warrior queen]

I'd really like you to explain to me how a program of eradication by shooting/trapping/whatever is going to be carried out.
Step by step, if you please.

 

[warrior queen]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_haemorrhagic_disease

You should read this. It will tell you the facts.

 

[CandiCame]

I'd really like you to explain to me how a program of eradication by shooting/trapping/whatever is going to be carried out.
Step by step, if you please.

I'm actually cool with the Advent Children plan- just not the whole 'painful death for no reason' plan. The same reason I hate factory farms. It doesn't have to be hunting- but with the rabbit herpes, you could still sell them in the States, if it doesn't cause side-effects in humans equal to or greater then that of a bacon double cheeseburger. Because, for some reason that we can't really explain- that pisses me right off- animal cruelty is wrong- unless it results in something delicious. Seriously. Livestock animals are exceptions from the Animal Cruelty laws. Help me figure that one out, to- it's equally depressing.

 

[CandiCame]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_haemorrhagic_disease

You should read this. It will tell you the facts.

Are you sure- I'm in a pretty pissy mood right now.

*sigh*

Maybe it'll cheer me up because it won't be as horrible as I thought it was.

 

[warrior queen]

Are you sure- I'm in a pretty pissy mood right now.

*sigh*

Maybe it'll cheer me up because it won't be as horrible as I thought it was.

You might discover that this virus is actually naturally occuring, not man-made.
It was introduced into Australia.

 

[Liar]

It was introduced into Australia.

Just like the bunnies were.

 

[oggbashan]

Shooting rabbits costs money and there aren't enough guns in Australia to kill them all.

There's too much land, too many rabbits and comparatively too few people who can shoot rabbits. They have no predators.

I only shot one rabbit in Australia. I was using an early 19th Century black powder rifle with a .7 inch lead bullet. I hit the rabbit in the body at 100 yards. I think it was a fluke because I wasn't that good a shot with that rifle.

I had instant rabbit mince. The head was the only recognisable part left.

 

[girlsmiley]

Hmm.

From wiki:

In Australia, the virus was first field-tested for population control in 1938. A full-scale release was performed in 1950. It was devastatingly effective, reducing the estimated rabbit population from 600 million to 100 million in two years. However, the rabbits remaining alive were those least affected by the disease. Genetic resistance to myxomatosis was observed soon after the first release and most rabbits acquired partial immunity in the first two decades. Resistance has been increasing slowly since the 1970s, and the disease now only kills about 50% of infected rabbits. In an attempt to increase that number, a second virus (rabbit calicivirus) was introduced into the rabbit population in 1996.

Also, frickin horrible images... Me no post linky.

 

[oggbashan]

If you had seen dozens of rabbits dying from the last stages of myxomatosis you wouldn't want to post pictures either.

 

[warrior queen]

Shooting rabbits costs money and there aren't enough guns in Australia to kill them all.

There's too much land, too many rabbits and comparatively too few people who can shoot rabbits. They have no predators.

I only shot one rabbit in Australia. I was using an early 19th Century black powder rifle with a .7 inch lead bullet. I hit the rabbit in the body at 100 yards. I think it was a fluke because I wasn't that good a shot with that rifle.

I had instant rabbit mince. The head was the only recognisable part left.

We have a population of around 24,000,000.
Discount kids and elderly, and that leaves about 8,000,000 adults.
Take away the 80% that live in the cities and have probably never seen a rabbit apart from Mopsy, and you're left with about 1,600,000.
Now, lets assume that about 5% of those have ever handled a rifle... now we're down to 80,000.

So, we have about 80,000 people to shoot nearly 200,000,000 bunnies.
That's 2,500 rabbits per person.

How long do you think it would take to shoot 2,500 rabbits?

 

[Liar]

We have a population of around 24,000,000.
Discount kids and elderly, and that leaves about 8,000,000 adults.
Take away the 80% that live in the cities and have probably never seen a rabbit apart from Mopsy, and you're left with about 1,600,000.
Now, lets assume that about 5% of those have ever handled a rifle... now we're down to 80,000.

So, we have about 80,000 people to shoot nearly 200,000,000 bunnies.
That's 2,500 rabbits per person.

How long do you think it would take to shoot 2,500 rabbits?

...and making sure you miss the kangaroos and stuff.

That's what's so great about targeted bio warfare.

 

[oggbashan]

...

So, we have about 80,000 people to shoot nearly 200,000,000 bunnies.
That's 2,500 rabbits per person.

How long do you think it would take to shoot 2,500 rabbits?

And how many rabbits will be born while you are shooting your 2,500?

 

[oggbashan]

...and making sure you miss the kangaroos and stuff.

Kangaroos are easy to miss. They're large enough to see, except after a dozen cans of lager.

 

[warrior queen]

...and making sure you miss the kangaroos and stuff.

That's what's so great about targeted bio warfare.

I know they both hop, but it's pretty hard to mistake a roo for a bunny

 

[girlsmiley]

If you had seen dozens of rabbits dying from the last stages of myxomatosis you wouldn't want to post pictures either.

Nightmare material. Speaking of nightmares...
Night all.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Do you cows come out of the sky on parachutes with signs that say

Eet moR waBit​

???

 

[JohnnySavage]

Just another mess British Imperialism left others to deal with

First India, then bunnies.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Playboy?

 

[JohnnySavage]

Playboy?

I only read the articles.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

There's a good one about Chlamydia spreading about the mansion since the introduction of Viagra...





Australia? are you reading US...?