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Is it illegal to own a rabbit in Queensland unless you're a magician?
- ukulele 9y agoAnswer: > From Queensland's Department of Agriculture and Fisheries brochure Can I have a pet rabbit?, > Why are pet rabbits illegal in Queensland? > Rabbits are Australia's most destructive agricultural and environmental introduced animal pest, [...] > Can I get a permit for a pet rabbit? > A permit cannot be issued for keeping pet rabbits of any variety for any private purpose. > A permit to keep domestic rabbits in Queensland can only be approved if the animal is being kept for an approved purpose: > certain forms of public entertainment (e.g. magic show and circuses) > scientific and research purposes So you could be a magician OR a scientist
- __s 9y agoAny sufficiently advanced scientist is indistinguishable from a magician
- CamelCaseName 9y agoIs any sufficiently primitive magician a scientist?
- drdeadringer 9y agoIs any sufficiently primitive scientist a magician?
- _jal 9y agoSufficiently magic scientists are dreamy.
- no_wizard 9y agoThe difference being one takes brains and the other takes dark eyeliner Edit: I was making a tongue and cheek joke for all the rick and morty fans out there sorry if that was out of line
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- sliverstorm 9y agoWait, what kind of scientists do you hang out with?
- DonHopkins 9y agoDoctor Frankenfurter.
- eric_the_read 9y agoFYI, I believe you may have meant "tongue in cheek": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tongue-in-cheek https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tongue-in-cheek
- no_wizard 9y agoI did, thank you. Again, I can't delete it, and I stand by having fun every once and awhile. I however apologize again if I was simply detracting.
- __s 9y agoI stand by your stand by. Negative karma isn't a crime once in awhile (seems you get a 2nd nit in this thread on wordisms: 'once and awhile' is 'once in awhile')
- dEnigma 9y agoI would even say that negative karma is never a crime, or even a bad thing. Just because an opinion isn't popular, doesn't mean one shouldn't voice it. (As long as it's not against the community guidelines or an actual crime)
- dogruck 9y agoWhat are you, a park ranger now?
- PaulHoule 9y agoToo bad. Rabbits are the best small-scale meat animal.
- Pxtl 9y agoOof. No, farming them for meat means breeding them which practically guarantees their escape into the wild as an invasive pest. I could see the argument for keeping a fixed one as a pet because there's no risk if a fixed one escapes... But even then, that would still create cottage industry of breeding them, and that's bad.
- limeblack 9y agoThis doesn't pertain to Australia, but if you have served in the peace corps(unless something has changed) rabbits used to be fairly popular animals to give people in third world counties. It produces lots of offspring(if you are lucky enough for them to breed) which is probably its biggest benefit.
- ci5er 9y ago> if you are lucky enough for them to breed Lucky? How do you stop them?
- DonHopkins 9y agoCut off their feet, that reduces their luck.
- userbinator 9y agoIt is fortunately legal to hunt and eat them everywhere in Australia.
- DonbunEf7 9y agoRabbits suck. I'm trying to find a good source, but it's well-known to outdoorsmen that a diet of rabbit alone is not sufficiently nutritious to sustain humans when compared to other meats. Also, it's Australia. Rabbits got out of control because people had this hubris about managing them; they won't permit that mistake again.
- Pxtl 9y agoA 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?
- Qiasfah 9y agoImporting 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.
- beeforpork 9y agoFor 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?
- phillc73 9y agoPretty 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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- carnismisfunny 9y agoCurious how insecure non-vegetarians are about their carnistic tendencies, that they must make jokes about enslaving and brutalizing sentient creatures. There mustn't be even a momentary lapse in hatred and cognitive dissonance to maintain the facade of carnist ideology.
- ajkjk 9y agoThis led me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbits_in_Australia#Biological_measures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbits_in_Australia#Biologica..., which is fascinating: it turns out that Australia has been trying to eradicate rabbits with viruses for decades. Surprising, I guess, because of how scary the same thing for humans would be.
- raverbashing 9y agoFunny how Australia's own wildlife hasn't taken care of the Rabbits Reproduction beats predators apparently
- QAPereo 9y agoIt's not that simple though, it's also about: does predator A hunt at times and in areas when/where prey 1 lives/acts? If not, then you get a Hawaiian Rats vs. Mongeese scenario. Like so many invasive species that now run amuck on islands around the world, mongooses were intentionally introduced to Hawaii. Sugar cane farmers took their cue from Jamaican plantation owners who imported mongooses to control rat populations. In 1883 the mongooses were let loose in the fields, an approach that proved to be colossally uninformed. As it turns out, rats are nocturnal and mongooses are diurnal. The exotic predators never came in contact with their rodent prey, and native bird populations began crashing instead. https://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/an-invader-advances-in-hawaii/ https://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/an-invader-advanc... In addition Australia doesn't have many large predators that weren't introduced, except for reptiles. The most impressive of those, the saltwater crocodile, isn't exactly suited to hunt anything far from shore.
- katastic 9y ago>Reproduction beats predators apparently That's the entire point behind rabbits and also rat-species. Nature favors two strategies. Simple, fast, often reproduction with quick-to-sexual-maturity where they can stand to lose many of the nest and keep spreading. Or, a few babies that take (relatively) forever to mature and need protected but once mature, are stronger and more intelligent. Quality vs quantity. Both are viable strategies according to nature.
- ChuckMcM 9y agoRabbits are a scourge in Queensland. When I bought my Akubra hat at the Victoria market in Melbourne the vendor confidently told me it was the only good use for a rabbit. (the hats are rabbit felt). Does any agency offer a bounty on rabbits? For example in some lakes in Colorado you can get a bounty for catching and killing non-native northern pike[1]. Does Australia have a similar system in place? There is lots of data about how much of a pest they are [2] but other than dogs and foxes I don't see a bounty program. Trappers decimated the American west of Beaver because they could sell the pelts, perhaps a market for rabbit pelts would be enough incentive to encourage trappers? [1] http://www.gameandfishmag.com/conservation-politics/20-northern-pike-bounty-offered-at-colo-lake/ http://www.gameandfishmag.com/conservation-politics/20-north... [2] http://agriculture.vic.gov.au/agriculture/pests-diseases-and-weeds/pest-animals/a-z-of-pest-animals/european-rabbit http://agriculture.vic.gov.au/agriculture/pests-diseases-and...
- dmichulke 9y agoI recall the Brits offered a bounty on some venomous snake in India with the effect that people bred those snakes for the £££
- thaumasiotes 9y agoOn the assumption that rabbits are difficult to breed, the bounty program should be fine.
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- xixi77 9y agoHave wild rabbits been mostly dealt with in Queensland? Because if not, it's not obvious to me how a relatively tiny additional source of escaped/released pet rabbits would make a difference?
- jazoom 9y agoI've lived in Queensland my whole life and I've never seen a wild rabbit. I do a lot of country driving now and I see wild hares at night, but I'm not sure if they're a problem.
- smegel 9y agoIs it illegal to bring a dog into Australia unless you are Johnny Depp? Answer: Australia has very strict bio-security laws.