How Do You Catch A Wild Rabbit?
Wild rabbits are a bit of a pest in many places and thinning out the population does the environment – and indeed the rabbit population – good. The European rabbit originated in southern mainland Europe and was exported as a food source, first by the Romans who took them to Britain. The British unfortunately then exported them to Australia, amongst other places, where they wreaked ecological havoc. The Americas have their own genus – the cottontail. • Get a piece of wire. • Make a loop in one end of it. • Feed the other end through the loop. • Repeat step 2. • Pull one end; it should make the loop smaller, then making it slacker as you release. This is called a snare. • Get a thicker piece of wire and bend until it’s in a V sort of shape. • Hammer the V shaped wire into the ground making sure that it’s inside the loop. • Make sure it’s very tightly placed in the ground. • Before you hammer it to the ground look for rabbit tracks do this by finding grass the has been flattened. That’s w
