killing rabbits for food

[JimBobplusasprog]

I live in the country surrounded by fields and woodlands. There are lots of wild rabbits around particularly at this time of year. Aibu to use them to supplement my otherwise boring diet?

My owner thinks whiskas senior should suffice with the odd rat, mouse or shrew but I like rabbit and enjoy eating it in my favourite spot under my owner's bed. For some reason the female human didn't seem grateful when I brought in three last night. I am a very tidy eater and usually leave just the guts and perhaps a paw or two. Aibu?

Thanks littleredsquirrel I have been following your advice about the carpet already. I did quite well last night as I brought in a bunny snack when the humans had just got in to my bed, and when I accidentally let the guts tear open the smell evicted them pretty quick. Ha!

Serves them right for stealing all my duvet and expecting me to sleep on some crappy basket with an old lambswool jumper in it. I'll make an effort to bring in the next snack at 2am so I can wake them up when I crunch through the skull.

Yabu.

I have already had to do my first of this years indoor live baby bunny chases.

They are too cute, and when you mess it up and let them go, I am faced with the awful dilemma of whether they are well enough to be let go, or whether I need to end their suffering.And I don't like it .

Leave them alone and eat your whiskas.

littleredsquirrel - presumably you would like Jim BobCat to try baby grey squirrels - the owner would surely realise that this is beneficial to proper native wildlife and be pleased with her.

Doesn't your owner know that crunching rabbit or mouse/rat complete with bones is extremely good for your teeth?

If you and a friend worked very hard you could strip a whole rabbit warren over the course of one summer, like 2 cats I know in gloucestershire did...

I find I get the best reactions by only eating the rabbit's head and leaving the warm body by the door. When they come in drunk from a party they'll need a snack to help prevent hangovers.

I'm just thoughtful like that.

you could try the age old, - dissect the mouse and eat all of it except the gall bladder and attached tube (or maybe it is the stomach and tube, or even the bladder)

leave that bit in the middle of the kitchen floor, so when they come downstairs to make tea in the morning they step on it.

Do that every morning from spring to autumn. just to let them know who is boss.