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  • The practice of using live animals to train greyhounds for racing. Typically involves encouraging a greyhound to chase and kill a small animal bound to a moving lure.

    February 16, 2015

  • And might bilbies sometimes be the fodder for this barbaric practice?

    February 17, 2015

  • Ya can't catch meee!

    Umm, seriously, we are currently having a live baiting scandal in Australia. The animals used as bait - as captured by hidden cameras - include piglets, rabbits and native possums.

    The documentary is available here, although some footage is so sick I'm reluctant to recommend viewing it: http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2015/02/16/4178920.htm

    February 17, 2015

  • Thank you, bilby, but I think I will heed your reluctance. I don't hanker for more documentary evidence of depravity. If you have any links to videos of happy bunnies frolicking in fields of daisies I could use them.

    February 17, 2015

  • Or cane toads. Amirite?

    February 17, 2015

  • Hey qms here is a video of a rabbit stampede for you: YouTube

    February 17, 2015

  • Wordnik - the world's go-to site for bunny stampede support in your hour of need.

    February 17, 2015

  • Thank you kindly. erinmckean, but these are Japanese rabbits and there are no daisies. After I left my last message it occurred to me that suggesting to an Australian that there is joy in rabbits might have been in poor taste. Maybe quokkas in the eucalyptus?

    February 17, 2015

  • If I could find you video of the joyous gambol of antechinus in the agapanthus, it would be yours.

    February 18, 2015

  • I adore agapanthus. I was going to make a snarky comment about how it would take a very specific set of circumstances to see an African plant in the native habitat of an antechinus, but then I was having fond memories of how I used to haul tubs of agapanthus inside to protect them from Nebraska winters, so, there's nothing I can say to that.

    February 18, 2015

  • On the ubran fringes there're certainly clumps of agapanthus around that have escaped from home gardens. Australia has a lot of similar climate zones here so the plant does well.

    February 18, 2015