I suppose you could breed them for the Greyhound Industry.

Regardless, Rabbits are illegal in Queensland & anyone who has one should be dobbed in immediately.

Don't tell me, this is the lead up to spruiking for an online petition put up by someone sponsored by Centrelink.

Quote, "How can rabbits be a nuisance when they're properly cared for, desexed, domesticated, et cetera"

What prevents owners from doing that now? Those domestic rabbits breeding in the dunes and on new development estates must be mirages.

Quote, "The same in that case could apply to any pet"

Ferrets next, or maybe Koi?

Just waiting for the lunar Greens to demand the release of neutered animals to 'control' the populations of ferals, as the Greens already recommend in NSW. At the same time the barking-mad Greens oppose any culling that could result in the use of feral animals as game meat for the table. The Greens would much prefer to have a magnificent red deer suffer a slow death from 1080 poison and the carcass left to rot where it fell, than let a hunter offer a quick end and put the venison into his chiller.

I thought that a fishy example of the spread of a feral pest might be interesting,

"PETER McCUTCHEON: Tilapia were illegally imported into Australia as aquarium fish more than 25 years ago and were soon introduced into north Queensland dams as a way of controlling weeds and mosquitoes. The infestation has slowly but surely spread by human hand as people either deliberately or unwittingly introduced these fast breeding pests into a series of tropical waterways like Townsville's Ross River.

DR ALAN WEBB (JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY): It's a remarkably hardy fish. It can live in a wide range of habitats and conditions. It can breed very, very rapidly. It can eat just about anything.

PETER McCUTCHEON: Dr Alan Webb is one of Australia's few tilapia experts. He was alerted to the extraordinary reproductive powers of this fish 15 years ago, when they were found in a pond in Port Douglas.

DR ALAN WEBB: About six or seven fish were placed in these ponds on the golf course associated with the Mirage resort and within about 18 months they removed somewhere in the order of 16 tonnes of fish.

PETER McCUTCHEON: 16 tonnes?

DR ALAN WEBB: Yes. They poisoned the ponds and they were then scooping the fish out with a front-end loader."

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2005/s1305418.htm

Let's not get silly with the same old, same old
baloney. Let's try to have a decent discussion
on the subject. My entire purpose of this thread
was as I mentioned in my opening post - I saw a
program on TV that raised more questions than it
answered and I thought that those living in the
state of Queensland could explain the logic behind
what motivates an Australian State Government to be so
different from the rest of Australian states when
considering the domestic rabbit as a pet? Which by the
way thousands still insist in breaking the law in that state
and keeping domestic rabbits as pets.

Surely pet rabbits would not survive in the harsh
Australian outback or environment. The harsh climate, the
lack of appropriate food and water, predators, lack of
survival instinct (domestic rabbits have been bred as
captive animals for generations) would all reduce their
being a risk in any shape or form. The numbers that would
suvive would be negligible.

Regulations were lifted in Western Australia that would
restrict the number of pet rabbits - because the general
consensus was that pet rabbits do not present a huge risk
at all. They would simply not survive in the harsh Australian
enviornment.

Any evidence and facts to the contrary would be a good place
to start with refuting these facts.

Anyone who wants to blather on against the Greens, Fabians,
Progressives, et al can always start their own threads on
on those topics. I would appreciate not to have mine de-railed!

Cheers.

cont'd ...

domestic rabbits bred especially as captive animals
and fish who can survive anywhere?

Yep the comparison makes a lot of sense - obviously
to some! (smile!)

Foxy,
Sorry can't help you. Perhaps you can get the info by googling Department of Primary industries, QLD. I suspect the Qld Gov think there still may be possibilities of irresponsible people NOT doing the right thing and escapees breeding with ferals.

They may be right, better to be sure than sorry. The daily news shows how many fools live amongst us. Amazing that some people survive after weaning.