Is it legal to shoot bunnies with a pellet gun in plano texas (food, suburb)

[5stones]

Overpopulation breeds disease in every species. (esp people!)
That is why even if you do not hunt, be thankful someone does.

Most hunters are very avid conservationalist, they do not want to see game depleated etc...because then they would not have anything to hunt. look at the Rocky Mountian Elk Foundation or Ducks Unlimited for example, thier rooster is almost entirely filled with hunters, and yet they raise more conservation money than PETA for thier causes.

[SVTRay]

Originally Posted by 5stones

Overpopulation breeds disease in every species. (esp people!)
That is why even if you do not hunt, be thankful someone does.

Most hunters are very avid conservationalist, they do not want to see game depleated etc...because then they would not have anything to hunt. look at the Rocky Mountian Elk Foundation or Ducks Unlimited for example, thier rooster is almost entirely filled with hunters, and yet they raise more conservation money than PETA for thier causes.

Well said, or typed!

This is just a guess but fairly close to the truth, Hunter's put 80-90 % of their money into conservation efforts while 80-90% of PETA's money goes towards advertising and t-shirts. A lot of game animal populations has been reintroduced to areas due to the efforts of hunting as well as protecting land. So you may not like eating meat or believe it comes from a magical place called Walmart, but you should stop and at least acknowledge the work of hunters.

[HockeyDadof2]

When I read this post I immediately thought of my old neighbor. When we first moved into our first home in Plano our next door neighbor, who we already knew as both our kids played ice hockey, warned us that on Wednesday morning the lady at the house on the corner regularly "hunted" bunnies on Wednesday mornings (Wednesday was our trash day). It was a few months before I actually witnessed it, at which point the cute little bunnies had devoured a couple hundred dollars of annuals. We never reported her, she had one of the best looking yards in the entire development.

Edited to add:
To the original poster, I wonder if you are asking for your own information or if perhaps you have witnessed this from someone else. I know our former neighbor moved somewhere else in a nearby neighborhood.

[stan4]

Originally Posted by SVTRay

3) small critters like baby rabbits is a good food source for rattle snakes...eleminate the food source, and you eleminate possible rattle snake problems...which can be fatal to humans.

4) cute little wild critters carry deceases like Rabies which again can cause harm to humans. There is a cure for Rabies but it can run as high as 7,000.00!

Yeah. We have such a huge rattlesnake problem in Plano.

And btw, lagomorphs do not carry rabies.

We have half an acre of land here in West Plano and the rabbits are plenty scared off by the dogs.

[5stones]

And btw, lagomorphs do not carry rabies

Flase.
Not common at all esp in Rabbits but woodchucks (lagomorphs) have been on the increase.
http://www.jwildlifedis.org/cgi/reprint/22/2/151.pdf

in our area the most common carrier of rabies is the skunk.

[skids929]

Originally Posted by 5stones

Flase.
Not common at all esp in Rabbits but woodchucks (lagomorphs) have been on the increase.
http://www.jwildlifedis.org/cgi/reprint/22/2/151.pdf

in our area the most common carrier of rabies is the skunk.

Good to know..Makes me feel even better than I already did for taking out a 15 pound Woodchuck last week for wacking my Cairn in the face. Mess with my family, get the pellet gun.

[tyanger]

There is no effective treatment for rabies once you actually become infected. If you are exposed there are steps to greatly reduce the likelihood of having an active infection, but once you are infected (not just inoculated) it is virtually 100% fatal. I have read of a single case where a girl with an active infection was, among other things, essentially kept in a coma with continuous IV infusions in an ICU for about 6 months and she did survive. However, there haven't been enough examples of this to decide how reproducible/effective it would be - plus the cost would be a heck of a lot more than $7K (that might be the cost for the post exposure prophylaxis though).

(edit) After some more research, it looks there are only 6 confirmed/known cases of people surviving active/symptomatic rabies infection without receiving rabies vaccination. If you're interested the treatment is phenobarbital/ketamine/versed induced coma, is still considered experimental, the case study patient was declared virus free after 31 days (not 6 months - I must be getting old). While she was in the coma antivirals were administered as well as vaccination. They basically took her central nervous system offline until her body could mount an immune response from the vaccinations and the antivirals had time to work.

[busterkeaton]

use a bow and arrow

[Twincam666]

I would think shooting a firearm in the city would be a problem just in itself....But then you have cruelty to animal problems too!

[Lone-star]

1. Trap them and release them elsewhere if you have a soft spot for rodents.

2. Dogs, especially dacshunds.

Pellet gun is not advisable for no other reason than it is just as likely to maim as it is to kill.