My wife and I were going to hang by the fire pit this evening, and relax and have a glass of wine or three. We were looking forward to a nice evening together. 

I had stacked wood in the pit about a week ago, in anticipation of this evening. When I lit it off tonight, I heard a high pitched squealing....to my horror, I saw a rabbit had built a nest in my kindling, and had 3 babies. 
I reached in the fire and pulled them all out. Looks like 2 survived, but one didn't make it. Never imagined a rabbit would have been able to get into my fire pit, much less have a litter in it. 

I'm an outdoorsman, and a hunter, and while I've killed my share of game in my life, I would never purposely kill any animal like that. Horrible way to die. 

Check your fire pits before you light them, ladies and gentlemen. 

same for mice in propane grills. poor thing was bouncing around like a ricochet till I quickly yanked off the grill and it ran away.

I always check our propane grill before lighting it up. We've had at least three mouse nests in there over the last 10 years. Fortunately there were never any babies in it, so I could just clean it out and send the adults on their way.

Full disclosure: if they get into my house or garage they're dead.

That sucks dude! Worse is shagging one with a mower.

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I've done that too. Horrible. One bunny escaped the mower with only the tops of his ears lopped off. We saw him around here as an adult for nearly a year. He always gave me an evil look....

 

I think the hawks eventually got him. 

Had a similar unfortunate incident a few springs ago with a mower and an in-ground bunny nest. Didn't see them until they all ran but it was too late. Felt sick for a week over that. 

29 minutes ago, tomk62 said:

Had a similar unfortunate incident a few springs ago with a mower and an in-ground bunny nest. Didn't see them until they all ran but it was too late. Felt sick for a week over that. 

Ya tomcat, it's a bad day

Once opened my grill to find a baby possum hissing at me. Will post the pic once i get home. 

Once opened my grill to find a baby possum hissing at me. Will post the pic once i get home. 

They are delicious with a little lemon butter.

Oddly enough, I HAVE eaten opossum before....

Lemon butter doesn't cover the taste of that. Yuck. 

Forgot how to post a pic lol. Will post it this weekend I promise. 

I recall opossum meat smelling very bad, and tasting equally as bad. That was 20 sum years ago though 

My dachshund made 'friends' with this little guy yesterday. He was in my neighbors yard. My dog scooped up the little baby bunny in her mouth and immediately spit it out. She gave me a look like, 'that wasn't what I thought it was, dad'. I about hurt myself laughing at her. 

The bunny, while unharmed, was a little bit annoyed. 

19 minutes ago, Displaced Texan said:

My dachshund made 'friends' with this little guy yesterday. He was in my neighbors yard. My dog scooped up the little baby bunny in her mouth and immediately spit it out. She gave me a look like, 'that wasn't what I thought it was, dad'. I about hurt myself laughing at her. 

The bunny, while unharmed, was a little bit annoyed. 

That's Thumper dude!

Good thing it wasent my dachshund Luger. He finds a nest of bunnys almost every year somewhere in my orchard and kills them. This year I found the nest first and kept him away. 

Insert pic via URL button isn't working. Here's the possum in the grill.

On 7/11/2017 at 0:47 PM, Handyman said:

 

They are delicious with a little lemon butter.

 

Will have to take your word for it on that one.