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Story time - My dad asked the local school which had a goat if he can borrow it for a weekend. It was to tame his backyard. As the backyard was enclosed with no chance of the goat escaping, we left it by itself. The goat was be extremely hungry and ate everything insight including the roots, leaves and bark. By Monday, the backyard is barren and took months recover. Moral of the story - keep an eye on the goat.
Looks like she goat herself in trouble
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I'm not talking about cat litter I'm talking about litters of kittens. Who gives a fuck about litter? Unless you're talking about litter as in garbage. But if you think dumping helpless animals under your care to fend for themselves is morally equivalent to littering, I'm not even sure what to say to that. It's not even in the same ballpark.
I know commenting on downvotes isn't kosher but I really wish downvoters would leave a comment on why. It could be 3 words: downvoted for x. I'm really not sure what is so objectionable about asserting that animal abuse is not the same thing as littering.
Be less concerned with your internet points.
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That's not the point. I have literally nothing against eating rabbits - they are delicious in fact. I do hover, object to lying. Like OP said - they(everyone in fact) have the right to make an informed choice. By omitting this information, people who are returning a rabbit aren't making an informed choice. It's a trick, a ruse, if money was involved I'd call it a fraud. Nothing to do with squeamishness.
They're returning the rabbits to the previous owners. There's no further expectation of duty to either party.
That's an outright lie, since they aren't letting the rabbit loose to live on the farm -- they're eating it.
Story time - My dad asked the local school which had a goat if he can borrow it for a weekend. It was to tame his backyard. As the backyard was enclosed with no chance of the goat escaping, we left it by itself. The goat was be extremely hungry and ate everything insight including the roots, leaves and bark. By Monday, the backyard is barren and took months recover. Moral of the story - keep an eye on the goat.
Goats are excellent land management if you have enough land and don't mind everything getting eaten to near the ground
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These are two contradictory reasons. Rabbits are considered invasive because there is a non-zero chance they will escape the hawk and reproduce.
It's not contradictory in the slightest, the odds of a domesticated and domestic rabbit surviving predation are effectively nil. The odds that it manages a litter first are higher, especially if it escapes pregnant, which rabbits generally are if they're able to be. Those pups are feral, not domestic, and have moderately better odds. Given enough generations, the domesticated neoteny is selected out by predation and…
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Fox guarding the hen house seems like the English equivalent to that.
That seems to imply maliciousness on the fox‘ side. The goat is merely ignorant.
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> with no chance of the goat escaping Bold assumption there. As they say, "if it doesn't hold water it won't hold a goat."
My town stopped its annual “goats clear the park” setup because one goat would consistently escape and wreak havoc on traffic. Pretty solid enclosure, too
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Goats are excellent land management if you have enough land and don't mind everything getting eaten to near the ground
our state DOT has rented goats to clean the sides of roads along highways in some rural areas, especially when there are large amount of noxious weeds. The person they hire strings up a bunch of short fiberglass poles for a mile or two along the highway with some wires, puts out some water, and then lets the goats in. Comes back and picks them up a couple of days later, and moves them to the other side.
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It's not contradictory in the slightest, the odds of a domesticated and domestic rabbit surviving predation are effectively nil. The odds that it manages a litter first are higher, especially if it escapes pregnant, which rabbits generally are if they're able to be. Those pups are feral, not domestic, and have moderately better odds. Given enough generations, the domesticated neoteny is selected out by predation and…
Everyone dies eventually.
My 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…
What kind of people adopt a pet, and then release it into the wild? People doing this with cats is one of the reasons stray cats are such a big problem in many places. People dumping cat litters in the woods and what not. And rabbits can be an ecological menace too if allowed to multiply, which they do like rabbits .