At 2:44 AM +0000 11/22/03, olympus-digest wrote:
>Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:11:11 -0500
>From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [OM] OT Wildlife in Houses
>
>This has of late become a source of some amusement in our house.
>A darling young lady from Belgium recently came to work in my
>wife's office. She has bemoaned more than once her inability to
>find rabbit in the local supermarkets. She inquired about the
>availibility of rabbit in the meat department of her local Publix,
>and they told her that they didn't sell rabbit, but that if she
>caught or bought one and brought it in, they would kill it, clean
>it and cut it up for her.
Be careful with wild-caught rabbits in the US. Many carry tularemia, which
doesn't seem to do the rabbit much harm, but is hard on humans. Antibiotics do
work, but people do die of it nonetheless.
Specialty butchers (not supermarkets) often carry farm-raised rabbit.
Joe Gwinn
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