1967 5 Cents - Had To Call The Vet

The farm has been around for too long, it's overloaded with a huge variety of acquisitions, and it's time for most of it to be put up for auction. The rabbit hutch next to the barn has lost it's lustre and needs to go; all the ordinary rabbits, and even the caged varieties of pet and show rabbits. Back when the farm was new, there was hope that rabbits' values would skyrocket, being so new and different. It never happened - everyone hopped to get them. Now they don't even circulate, and it looks like they have disappeared in the wild, soon to go the way of the extinct rock dove.



The rabbit herd (hoard ) has been cut down over the years. When the farm started in 1967, you could trade a rabbit for a pack of hockey cards with a piece of bubble gum, you could park for 30 minutes, 2 rabbits for a draft beer at the tavern, 9 of them got you a gallon of gas (Cdn. 4x40 oz.), or a pack of "Export A" cigarettes. Now you're lucky to get a gumball.

The other night I went out to check on a ruckus in the hutch and some critter had knocked all the cages over and a small horde (hoard ) of rabbits was everywhere. Here is the scene of pandemonium, the loose rabbits trying to do what they do with the 2x2ed ones. Naughty !



I checked them out and noticed some had been scratched or injured, small bits missing. Got the vet who documented their injuries: frontal and rear attacks. 6 had small strike-throughs, one had serious damage and was reduced to the value of it's melt. Looks like something real bad got to that one.









I had to find the culprit, so I set out some trail cameras and bid, oops, I meant hid. I thought this one was what I was looking for. Accidently, I caught it running past one of the cameras, sniped it, and later 2-by-2ed it. A real nice specimen of lupus vulpes, but it wasn't the Proof I thought it was. There was no proof it was a rabbit-killer so it's going to be returned to the wild somewhere far away, soon. I'll keep my eye out for a larger canine that could have done in rabbit 7.



Shortly after, the pack responsible for #7 was rounded up. 10 times bigger than the rabbits and much sought after. There's a pretty good bounty on them compared to rabbits which will help while downsizing and upgrading the old farmhouse and filling holes in the 1875 foundation.