Anybody know their rabbits?

[coyotehunter_1]

About a month ago my wife, Cathy, said she had seen what she first thought was a black kitten on the gravel drive leading to our house. Upon closer inspection she saw it was a very young baby rabbit. Several days later I saw it also but it bounded in to the nearby weeds before I could get a good look at it. We’ve both seen it off and on for several weeks.  I’ve been trying to get pictures but it is very shy and always runs before I could get close enough for a good snap shot. Well today I was in luck, it was back, only it had grown somewhat since the last sighting. We have a bumper crop of the usual colored cottontails this year but this one is a little different. It may or may not be a wild cottontail, I’m not really certain, but it certainly is living well in the wild. What do you all think it is? A domestic rabbit gone wild or an unusual colored wild cottontail? BTW, it's eyes are jet black, the camera flash made them look yellow.

[Todd Rahm]

I know they have a better sex life them me and no matter what color they are, they all taste the same. 

[alscalls]

My uncle has some that look odd running in his yard but they were let loose by a neighbor .....been 3 years now and he has a bumper crop of them every year as he shoots them out of his garden.
Ya just never know

[coyotehunter_1]

Maybe it's the Easter bunny 

[Hawks Feather]

How about the one on the right in this picture?

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Publications/PressMaterials/Photos/rabbit2.jpg

While it could be wild, if I were to bet my money would be on a domestic release or escape.

Jerry

[FinsnFur]

I'm putting my money on the Easter Bunny

[KySongDog]

Its an Obama Bunny.

[Bopeye]

Its an Obama Bunny.

Ya took the words right out of my mouth dad. I was thinking that the while reading the thread and then I read yours. 

It is a cool looking rabbit Chet. The coyotes come black and blonde, could be a mutated little cottontail. He looks cottontail in his body makeup.

[alscalls]

Defiantly a minority................... like a working West Virginian.............

[slagmaker]

     Back when I was just a youngen, our family raised rabbits. One day some neighbor kids found out that we were eating them and they let a bunch of young ones loose. Well a lot of them survived and they bread with the wild ones. It made for some very good hunting and the taste of the cross breeds was wonderfull. Kind if a cross between the wild and tame flavors. It took about 2 years before the rabbits all tasted like wild again and for several years afterwards sometimes you would get a tame coloration on a few of the bunnys. The taste never came back though. They alll had the wild flavor.

[Silencer]

they bread with the wild ones

Same thing happened around here, they cross-bred and we shot the heck outta them.  It also took a couple years as well for them to breed out.   

[vvarmitr]

I know all black g'hogs are more rare than albinos, but it does happen.
Then there are the black squirrels ... they're everywhere around here now.

Iffen it is the Magical  Obama bunny you can stroke his fur 3 times &  "POOF"  you got free health care!
:roflmao:  :roflmao:  :roflmao:

I wonder if it would scream in Ebonics? 
:roflmao:  :roflmao:  :roflmao:

[slagmaker]

I have seen rabbits

they bread with the wild ones

Same thing happened around here, they cross-bred and we shot the heck outta them.  It also took a couple years as well for them to breed out.   

Makes for interesting hunting when the rabbits sit still and try to sneak/walk away from ya. they dont run like true wild rabbits do they kind of slink away.

I really miss those days of hunting rabbits in the back pasture. 10 acres of the most perfect rabbit habitat you could ask for jsut right for a 12 year old to go hunting with his trusty 410