s e v e n i s a j o u r n e y

Last evening Tam’s boss, and her bosses-boss, came by the visit. They brought guns.

Seems Tony is a avid shooter, and when he heard we had a rabiit problem, he was keen to “help”. At dusk they went up to the Gallop paddock, and got to work. Meanwhile Tam and I waited inside, merrily killing pixels on the play station. As night fell, Tam went out to see how they had got on, and returned with a fist full of bodies. A quick layer of newspaper was spread on the table, and two fine hares and a rabbit were laid out. We all then had a nice cup of tea on the half of the table not covered in bleeding bodies. They were all good clean shots, and no doubt quick and humane deaths for the bunnies.

Once they left we gave Maggie a call and asked if she wanted a few dead bunnies (esecially the hares, which are apparently very tasty). She was quite enthusiastic about this, so we carefully wrapped them up, and put them in the freezer. We have such great friends.

Of course, as we were doing this kitten (Amaya) finally noticed the pile of bunny-bodies. Her immediate reaction was to grab on of the hares and try to make off with it- of course said hare was considerably bigger than her! But with big-eyes and flat ears she kept trying to get up on the table and make off with the “best toy ever”. We thwarted her little kitty desires.

Hopefully we can have Tony and Niel back again later to deal with more of our vermin. Who knows, maybe next time we can go up and do some shooting with them.