Would Ya? Could Ya?

[B00]

I'm on another forum, nosying around, and there's a post saying the cat had brought home a dead rabbit 'as a gift', and well, they've only bunged the rabbit in the oven to cook for tea!!!

There's no way on God's green earth I could do that. Worse, the rabbit didn't have any signs of wounds or injuries, so can't determine exactly how it died.

Could you? Really?

I'm hurling at the very thought!

[jeffa]

The rabbit population more than halved during the Second World War because of meat rationing. Poaching became rife and there was a thriving black market. Then, in the early 50s, myxomatosis arrived accidentally from Australia and the entire rabbit population was almost wiped out. Despite this, it has rallied to something approximating its pre-war figure:
http://www.gwct.org.uk/media/192526/Rabbit_1901-2009_UK.gif

[seadogg]

Roadkill is the only meat we might consider. Stuff dragged in -nix!

[Peter Pedant]

When Thomas Wyatt was in the Tower for treason I think, around 1480
his cat (who followed him at a distance) brought him a bird every day.

(which he cooked )

and no I wouldnt - and hey whenever my dog brings me things - filled nappied, clumps of horse dung and so on - I throw them away !

by the way what does badger taste like

in the days after the war - rationing else - peple used to eat badger...

[paddywak]

Wouldn't eat one fetched in like that but as a kid in the fifties we were raised on it, but I've not eaten one since mixy, even ones I shot myself.My dad on the other hand would have eaten it every day.

[ELVIS68]

Hi B00, I ate a reindeer steak just before Xmas and that wasn't all that so I don't think I could eat something a cat had dragged in, must've been a small rabbit for a cat to drag in though?

[starone]

I couldn't kill anything myself, but I eat what others kill. However, myxamatosis is at the moment decimating the rabbit population, according to my hunter friend, so no, I would not eat what the cat brought in.