Use Ferrets to Hunt Rabbits: Kill It, Cook It, Eat It

I killed a jackrabbit last week, but this time I took it home and skinned, gutted and prepared it. I use to just go out shooting them and leaving them, but the past years I noticed that they were gone, we hadn't had a good rain for a long while, now there back. I see we might need them for a food source, so I hunted them this time it did do something to me, as I cut into it's gut and tore it out, peeled the hide off, My dog was acting weird too, shaking as I feed it a bit of raw meat, but she love it... even jumped up and eat the hide when I was gone. I did feel something in side change, maybe I'm normal now... LOL

on the vid clip "oh no dont shoot it".
ahem, anyone know what she thought the shotguns,minders and vet was there for? never mind the name of the darn show. lmao.

I say we turn the ferrets loose on republicans and fat rich folk.

I live in the U.S. and I wish we could use Ferrets to hunt rabbits. I love this show I just wish they would give the recipes for the game and animals they cook. I am an avid hunter and I have seen slaughter houses good and bad ones if those people who are having trouble with the good places they should take a look at the bad ones. I also rasied rabbits as a kid. I had some that were pets and some were for sale around Easter. I also raised some for some of the folks around my neighborhood that wanted the meat so I raised and butchered the rabbits for them. Hunting is one of the most humane ways of population control there is. The one girl suggested more fox well that might be a grand idea except when the rabbits are gone what do the fox eat then? they will move on to other prey like house pets they can eat. Now you have a bigger problem with the fox becoming a pest.

Forget it! It's an endless matter! I am done here! Like I said earlier, so glad I never watched Current TV or never will.. We have T.V. plus the Roku box.. I am very satisfied with that! Only reason I put my opinion on here is because the fact I saw a post about this on Facebook! So Long!!

Killing and eating a rabbit that has experienced nothing but freedom is much more humane than perpetuating factory farming where hens can be so tightly packed their feet grow to the bottom of the cage. (Don't say it doesn't happen. I've seen the result.)

dont get me wrong, i have empathy for the poor babe, i dont like seeing anyone in emotional distress...

Current people are so cruel! Whoever decided to do a show like this is an asshole! So glad I don't watch Current TV..

As a hunter for nearly 30 years in the woods of Montana, I have to weigh in. I stumbled across this program one day and have loved what it is showing to the world. This specific episode is a stark reminder of why I hunt. Populations need to be put into control, especially when they are so out of control, as rabbit populations can get. I am of the idea that if you kill it, eat it. What I saw in this episode is a far more humane way of dying for the rabbits than any other alternative. I witnessed on a hunting trip a wild ferret killing a rabbit. The way I found the scene was the screams the rabbit was making. It lasted nearly 15 minutes until I was able to find and dispatch the rabbit for the ferret. These rabbits were dead in less than a minute. So, which is more cruel, nature or humans?
I think that sometimes people who are so vocal about animals and animal treatment forget that the alternatives to humans killing the animals is that the animal will die somehow, and most likely not in a very kind way. Even on this episode, none of the activists could come up with a better way to control the population. The pat answer was, "Society will find a way" or "Nature will find a way." Society has; it is called hunting. Nature found a way; it is called starvation or disease or predation. None of Nature's ways are kind or quick. Maybe we should think about this a little more.

I would like to explain the concept of what industry does to the environment and why we eat meat. Due to pollution, and the extinction of natural predators, if we did not hunt and eat meat, then we would be overrun by certain species. Hunting & eating animals is part of the natural order of life on earth. It attempts to keep in balance what we have thrown out of balance. Besides, if you think that the vegetables you eat, aren't alive, don't feel pain, then you are kidding yourself. Something living dies in order to support human life, right down to the shoes on your feet!

why go on a show like this if you're gonna freak out?

She cried for a rabbit? Sick. Isn't rabbits supposed to be on our food chain? I mean we keep em as pets sure - cute and cuddly, but it comes down to survival and wanting to eat - the rabbit is going to end up on somebody's plate.

go ferrets go!

soo glad im a vegetarian

rabbit is good eating, prepared right