This has become pretty common over the last few years in Atlanta for clearing out larger wild areas - they make short work of it
Goat Rental – Hire Goats
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I could never imagine doing this to an animal I care about. This is sociopathic behaviour. Unless they believe the rabbit will survive, in which it's just wildly ignorant. And therefore irresponsible, because a rabbit owner should have a rough understanding of what a rabbit is and how they work.
It is quite sad and irresponsible, but extremely common.
There was a case here in Norway a few years back. A litter of dead kittens was found in the woods, wrapped in several layers of plastic bags. Inner layers had scratches proving the kittens were alive and not stillborn.
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#113My sister has a small farm and in addition to cows and horses she also has rabbits. Every spring, parents show up to buy a rabbit to have at home. When the deal is done my sister takes the parents aside and tell them that if they plan or feel by the end of the summer that they want to let the rabbit loose, they can return it for free. What she does not tell is that our brother-in-law is a chef and happily makes rabbi…
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#114My sister has a small farm and in addition to cows and horses she also has rabbits. Every spring, parents show up to buy a rabbit to have at home. When the deal is done my sister takes the parents aside and tell them that if they plan or feel by the end of the summer that they want to let the rabbit loose, they can return it for free. What she does not tell is that our brother-in-law is a chef and happily makes rabbi…
> If there was ever a win-win situation, this is it. Say what? She lies via omission to the parents, forcing them to make an uninformed choice. Instead of letting a rabbit loose in the wild, they might have sought another home for it, because they didn't want it to die. Your sister's lies mislead them into thinking they can safely return the rabbit.
The whole thing was an Invisible initiation, there was never any rabbit.
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#115Ah nice seeing something like this on HN. In India, it's common to hire goats for another, lets just say complementary reason. Their droppings are really good natural fertiliser. So farmers pay sheep/goat herders to get them to visit their farm for a few days before the sowing season.
I'm from India and I never heard of this.
I'm pretty sure people do this, but it's the "it's common" part that bothers me.
It's like saying Indians are vegetarians. All Indians aren't.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
In German, there’s an old phrase: “Appointing the goat as gardener”. You use it when somebody is being made responsible for task for which he is not just incompetent, but where he will actually cause damage - for instance because he has ulterior motives.
Fox guarding the hen house seems like the English equivalent to that.
In Hungarian, we mix the two of yours: Goat guarding the cabbage.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's similar, but not quite equivalent. The fox is malicious. It knows it will destroy the property, whereas the goat is happily oblivious to the destruction it brings.
> is not just incompetent, but where he will actually cause damage - for instance because he has ulterior motives. That made me think it was more. And anyway, as much as the fox does with chickens, the goat knows it will set about to kill and eat plants. There's no real reason to call the fox knowingly malicious and the goat not.
>There's no real reason to call the fox knowingly malicious and the goat not.
I think we imagine foxes to have a level of cunning that a placid goat lacks.
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#120The map judders uncontrollably on Firefox for me.
Same here, it constantly alternates between two sizes.