Haggis

[maggiebee]

The Haggis Hunting Season

Once again the Haggis Hunting Season is nearly upon us! Traditionally, the open season for hunting the Scottish Haggis is between St. Andrew’s Day (the 30th November) and Burn’s Night (the 25th January).

There is some disagreement as to whether haggi (the plural of haggis) actually have different length legs, but this is thought to be due to disinformation and ‘fake news’ spread by Sassenaches (English people and lowland Scots) who have never ‘bagged a Highland Munro’ (a steep Highland peak) in search of the illusive Highland Haggis. The steeper the peak, the greater the difference in leg length, so in fact you can differentiate between a Highland Haggis, an Island Haggis and a Lowland Haggis, just by looking at the difference in leg length. Some haggis have adapted particularly well to the boggy areas of Scotland having evolved extra long snouts that give them an advantage when bog snorkelling.

You must be aware that it is illegal to catch and keep a haggis that measure less than 6 inches long from the end of the nose to the base of the tail. If you do catch a sub-6 inch haggis then you must release it back into the wild.


It is also illegal to keep a haggis as a pet or to run an unlicensed haggis farm.

Happy hunting folks!

[steg]

I’d swap my pet haggis (mc spicy) for a giraffe any day

[pastafreak]

If you catch a haggis now, what do you do with it until January? Does it keep? Do you need to fatten it up?

[davebro]

you hang them - like grouse.

[roadman]

That longer appendage isnt a leg its how they breed

[Redhelen72]

Love me a haggis or two!
The gilly is going out today to bag a few for me!

[pastafreak]

Hang them??!!!!
Awwww...poor wee haggis.

[pat2604]

Do they make good pets? I'm very against hunting and shooting.Are there any haggis rescue centres?

[Buenchico]

Don't listen to Maggie!

Join the campaign!

Save the poor wee creatures - and buy some hagpoo to help fund haggis sanctuaries too!
http://www.savethehaggis.com/

[Mamyalynne]

They're lovely in a pasty.

[albaqwerty]

their mating cry is not akin to the drone of a bagpipe (or more), it is more of a low, soft calling 'irn bruuu. irn bruuu'

The purple-heather eating species is the tenderest of them all.

[ynnafymmi]

A sighting of a wild haggis up here in Scotland is as rare as a sighting of Peter Murrell.

[Mamyalynne]

[Buenchico]

Helping out our American friends ;-)

[JimF]

yawn

[maggiebee]

Are you tired JimF? Poor wee soul, just get your head down again.

[William51]

People should be careful, i hear they hunt in packs and do not take kindly to strangers.