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.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v50/coyotehunter_1/blackbunny.jpg)
I know they have a better sex life them me and no matter what color they are, they all taste the same. :biggrin:
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 :shrug:
Maybe it's the Easter bunny :laf:
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
I'm putting my money on the Easter Bunny :eyebrownod:
Its an Obama Bunny.
Quote from: Semp on August 06, 2009, 02:58:41 AM
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. :laf:
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.
Defiantly a minority................... like a working West Virginian............. :laf: :laf:
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.
Quotethey 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.
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. :iroll:
Iffen it is the Magical Obama bunny you can stroke his fur 3 times & "POOF" you got free health care! :huh:
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I wonder if it would scream in Ebonics? :wo:
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I have seen rabbits
Quote from: Silencer on August 06, 2009, 01:59:54 PM
Quotethey 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