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Re:Is it illegal to own a rabbit in Queensland unless you're... by Pxtl on Saturday October 21, 2017 @11:26AM (#15522145)
A shame. For vegetarians/vegans they're one of the few pets that can be nice, social animals and don't have to eat meat. A pet would be fixed, so there's no risk of escape into the wild... But pets have to be bred so the risk is still there.

Maybe some system where rabbits could be certified as "imported fixed" and tagged as such? So only intact animals could be legally imported?

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Re:Is it illegal to own a rabbit in Queensland unless you're... by beeforpork on Saturday October 21, 2017 @11:49AM (#15522221)
For non-vegetarians, it is also a shame, because rabbits are really delicious.

This makes me wonder: I saw no exemption in that article of owning rabbits for meat production, so does that mean that down under, there is no rabbit on any restaurant's menu?

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Re:Is it illegal to own a rabbit in Queensland unless you're... by phillc73 on Saturday October 21, 2017 @11:58AM (#15522255)
Pretty sure I've eaten rabbit in a restaurant in Australia, but I am sure it was wild rabbit.

I remember as a child in Australia eating a lot of rabbit. My father would hunt them and Mum's speciality was curried rabbit. I used to love it.

They really are vermin in Australia. Ever time I see a rabbit in Europe I have an almost visceral desire to kill it. Growing up in rural Australia I've seen first hamd the damage they can do if left unchecked.

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Re:Is it illegal to own a rabbit in Queensland unless you're... by DonHopkins on Saturday October 21, 2017 @07:06PM (#15524104)
If God didn't mean for you to eat people, he wouldn't have made people of meat. Same goes for rabbits, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBtsi3CkfBE

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Re:Is it illegal to own a rabbit in Queensland unless you're... by Qiasfah on Saturday October 21, 2017 @11:42AM (#15522196)
Importing animals of any type into Australia isn't easy since they don't have many of the diseases on other continents, nor would they likely ever approve this for non-native species.

Rabbits are a huge problem in regards to protecting the native marsupials.

Australia's attitude towards rabbits is completely different than areas where they're native because they are such pests.

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Re:Is it illegal to own a rabbit in Queensland unless you're... by blowski on Saturday October 21, 2017 @12:14PM (#15522309)
As a side note rabbits have so little fat that living on them exclusively causes malnutrition, a condition known as “rabbit starvation”.
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Re:Is it illegal to own a rabbit in Queensland unless you're... by gaius on Saturday October 21, 2017 @02:02PM (#15522768)
Which really shows how desperate they are in Venezuela now.
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