Do Rabbits live in Canada?

[DogPaddle 0]

Hello!

On a recent trip to Toronto, Canada I noticed what I would have said to be prime rabbit ground.

It had grazing a plenty seemed soft enough to dig burrows as long as the CN tower!

So is the reason for me not seeing a rabbit down to the fact that it gets to cold and snowed in for too much of the year? Or is it teeming and I’m blind!!

Thanks everyone.

 

Hey, sorry for reviving an old thread, but I can certainly answer if you are still interested?

Simple answer, there are many rabbits, but not so many near the cities.

 

Canada is an enormous country and has a vast amount of wildlife, and the hunting regulations change from province to province. Many things that are legal in one area, are illegal in another.

 

The areas around the cities and southern Canada are also full of wildlife, but there are also many farms there. If it is not city, it is farm land. I was raised in the farmland of southern ontario and there was a big push back in the 70's and a little earlier, to rid the land of rabbits. The government began handing out DDT like and told the farmers that it was the best thing ever. Well the stuff worked too good. It killed off the vast majority of the rabbit population, and most other ground dwelling critters, the bird population also took a huge hit as the stuff killed off most of their food supply. But now a days the populations are coming back, thanks to some hindsight, but they are no where near the same as when I was a child. Yet outside of the major populated areas, the rabbit population is quite large and stable.

 

Still if you want to hunt in Canada, stay away from the cities, you would only be asking for difficulty. IMO, I would think it best to find a friend who lives here or go to an outfitter.

 

I have hunted and fished all accross Canada and still have not experienced all that this country has to offer.

[DogPaddle 0]

So they have loads of rabbits.

but no one hunts them!

Massive carp in almost every puddle or pond you look in,

But no one fishes for'em!

 

So in the words of S.L.Jackson in pulp fiction " I'm fu**ing going that's all there is to it I'm fu**ing going!"

 

Thanks guys any one that does lamp or carp fish in toronto please put a thred up or pm me cheers every one!

 

Rabbits are hunted here, and some people even use dogs, but it is nothing like in the UK. I hate to say it, but I think that we are spoiled. There is so much large game here that really only kids and poor people hunt small game on a regular basis. Although coon hunting has a strong following.

 

Sorry to say it, but the same applies to Carp. We all fished for them when we were young, but they are so easy to catch, that when we grow, adult pride takes over and we go after the more challenging fish, leaving the carp for the city folk or the children to catch.

 

I would also like to add my caution to what Lurcher Girl said, why would you want to fish near a city such as Toronto? Take caution if you are going to eat the fish. I certainly wouldn't. There is loads of great fishing all across the country, no need to fish near a city.

[DogPaddle 0]

Um, have you been over there in the winter yet? I would suggest you think about that before you up sticks. Unless you're happy with -45 in the wind chill for 5 months.

 

Hey Lurchergrrl, Don't you miss the cold just a little bit??? freezing your tongue on the lamp post??? Wait till the ambient temperature passes -40 and then spit into the air and listen to it crackle as it freezes before hitting the ground.

 

I just can't help it, I live for the winter!!! It is the greatest time of the year!!!

[DogPaddle 0]

You can hunt all canadian legal wildlife with a bow LG,its always been my wet-dream to take a bear with a bow

 

Bow Hunting is superb! Have you been over here yet, since you posted this?

 

Is there a thread on this forum dealing with bow hunting??? Anyone???

 

I live in an area that is almost overrun with black bears. They are easy to find, sometimes too easy. In fact they are so easy, that most people here just buy their bear tag and jump in the truck and drive up the road looking for one wandering the edge of the forest.

[lurchergrrl 1,441]

Um, have you been over there in the winter yet? I would suggest you think about that before you up sticks. Unless you're happy with -45 in the wind chill for 5 months.

 

Hey Lurchergrrl, Don't you miss the cold just a little bit??? freezing your tongue on the lamp post??? Wait till the ambient temperature passes -40 and then spit into the air and listen to it crackle as it freezes before hitting the ground.

 

I just can't help it, I live for the winter!!! It is the greatest time of the year!!!

 

I miss the snow DP. This country gets a centimetre of snow and everyone panics. Schools shut down, nobody can drive a car! It's shocking, honestly. When I first came here there was a sad little snowfall, and some little boy ran up to me in the street and said "look I can make a snowball" ... I said Son, where I come from I can build an igloo

 

I lived in Ottawa for a couple of years before I came to England and that place is stupid-cold. I sorta miss it, but not enough to go running back.

 

Tell you what I miss .... Tim Horton's!

[Paul in North Lincs 15]

dont Priairy Dogs live there too?????

[mackem 26,504]

You can hunt all canadian legal wildlife with a bow LG,its always been my wet-dream to take a bear with a bow

 

Bow Hunting is superb! Have you been over here yet, since you posted this?

 

Is there a thread on this forum dealing with bow hunting??? Anyone???

 

I live in an area that is almost overrun with black bears. They are easy to find, sometimes too easy. In fact they are so easy, that most people here just buy their bear tag and jump in the truck and drive up the road looking for one wandering the edge of the forest.

I had the opportunity once to marry a canuck,she was from Ontario,not exactly my type long-term so I didnt go for it,but my wifes cousin has a farm in Minnesota just over the border,they have black bears and I have an open invite,but I always take my vacations in warmer-climes I have a malaysian friend who has taken a sun bear with stick-and-string,so who knows?I am certain I will do it one day

[DogPaddle 0]

Tell you what I miss .... Tim Horton's!

 

I could send you a box of Timbits, but I don't think that there would be many left with all the customs officers.

[DogPaddle 0]

dont Priairy Dogs live there too?????

Absolutely! They live mostly in the south, from Manitoba to Alberta. I find that they are difficult to catch with dogs, because they seem to stay so close to their burrows, but we did have a couple of dogs that figured out a way.

 

Actually at the time we lived in southern Ontario and had a groundhog problem (no prairie dogs live there). We had a German Shepherd Dog and a Cocker Spaniel bitch, and the spaniel would run in the fields around the groundhog holes, with the shepherd trailing quite a ways behind. Then when the spaniel would cross a hole, the groundhog would stick it's head up to investigate and the shepherd would jerk him right out of the hole. It was amazing to watch them hunt. After they figured this out, our yard was always covered in groundhog carcasses.

 

I have always thought that the same technique would work for Prairie Dogs, because that is how we used to snare them as kids. A long piece of string with a loop on the end, run up and put it around the hole, then run back to the end and wait for the prairie dog to stick his head up.

[karlsberg 319]

my nan lives in canada