Here is a bit of background on the creature. All though a wabbit can live for several years (I’ve heard up to about 6 years) the average life span seems to be about 2 years. An adult rabbit was originally called a “Coney” the name “Wabbit” was reserved for a baby or a young one. The wabbit was first introduced to this country about the eleventh century. Some say they came from France others from Spain. They were introduced to be farmed as a commercial proposition, eventually they spread and went wild. They prefer to live under hedgerows, trees and dry stone walls. They like to burrow in sandy ground and feed locally. The burrows weaken the ground and so the walls fall down, trees and hedges are destroyed; cows (and horses) break legs down the holes and they like to feed especially in your garden. By the middle of the 1900’s they had reached crisis proportions in this country so someone had the bright idea of introducing them to a flea transmitting virus called Myxoma. The resulting disease Myxomatosis was a blight on our society. Now don’t get me wrong I’m all for killing wabbit but this is a despicable way to kill. A clean shot to the wabbit kill zone will cause it to roll over-dead. Myxomatosis takes about 10-14 days to kill (very slowly) and if you’ve seen a wabbit walking round in circles not knowing where it is going, blinded, sick, being fed upon alive by the environment, flies literally eating it alive, rooks and crows after its eyes a free meal for the fox its not a pretty sight. Whoever was responsible for this should be given a dose themselves-any way that's a bit of history!
