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Post by klsm54 on Aug 15, 2008 14:33:40 GMT -5
Back in the days of yore, the Pennsylvania Game Commission would lend you box traps for rabbits. Then you could release them yourself, or they would provide a holding pen and come around every few days and take them out and release them on state gamelands. They abandoned this program back in the early '70's. The biologists studied the released rabbits and found that they had a high mortality rate, 80% plus if I recall, within like 72 hours of releasing them. Seems they couldn't take the trauma of trapping and transferring them. Of course I thought I knew better... So a friend and I did some serious trapping one winter and transferred dozens of town rabbits to his farm. The next year his farm had no more rabbits than it did before our trap and release adventure. Maybe those biologists knew what they were talking about.
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