Dead Rabbit In The Garden

spudqueen | 15:33 Sat 13th Jun 2015 | Animals & Nature

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Our garden backs onto a field and we quite often get wild rabbits coming in to our garden from the field. Last night I noticed one that didn't seem very well as it wasn't moving much, though it did eventually hop off into next doors garden. Today there is a dead rabbit in our garden. What do I do with it? Our black bin for general waste isn't due to be collected until a week on Monday, so if I put it in there it will be very smelly by then. I do wish it had stayed in next doors garden and died there, but as it didn't I'm now stuck with the problem.

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ummmm

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I'd lob it in the field. Well I wouldn't....I'd get someone else to do it...

15:40 Sat 13th Jun 2015

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hc4361

I'm sure a fox will eat it, or carrion crows. Nature's way of disposal.

Baldric

I'll type this slowly for you,

This is The UK, not the US of A.

Clanad

Retro… well, denseness is a trait I have been accused of, but this isn't one of those times. Tularemia can and does continue to infect animals and humans and isn't a bit fun… I'm just saying take care of your own problems and don't make it someone else's...

Retrochic

Clanad do not be so rude! The prospect that the rabbit had Tularemia is next to zero it is so uncommon in the UK. On the other hand anyone walking in the countrside in the UK will regularly see rabbits with 'mixy' they are easy to see as they hop about very slowly and their eyes are all gummed up.

Clanad

Baldric, I'll respond by responding with equal care… slowly and perfunctory with this:

https://www.gov.uk/fallen-stock

Of course there's the distinct possibility that the language therein means something different than what it would here in the U.S.

murraymints

...I am with Jan..ibt of puff..few carrots and tatties..yum !

Mamyalynne

Even if it was diseased in some way Murray? Yum???

murraymints

welll..maybe not then !!

hc4361

Fallen stock does not apply to wild animals. That is for farmers to get rid of their dead livestock.
The bit that applies to wild animals is not addressed to Joe Bloggs who would not be expected to suspect that a dead animal is diseased and the information is directed at those who operate plants for disposing of dead animals.

Retrochic

clanad are you having a bad day? A dead rabbit is not 'fallen stock'. The carcasses of wild animals, other than wild game, are exempt from the EU regulations. Don't you think you are getting a little carried away over a dead bunny?

Baldric

Geographic
•Occurs within temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, United States, mainland Europe.
•Two serovars of F. tularensis occur in North America: ◦Type A occurs only in North America and is found in tick reservoirs. It occurs predominantly in rabbits (mainly native Sylvilagus spp).
Type B occurs throughout the Northern Hemisphere and may infect ticks, mosquitoes, rodents, water, and other material. It is much less common in rabbits than Type A.
To date has not been reported in pet rabbits within the UK.