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Post by BuckSkin on May 9, 2022 21:55:32 GMT
Run Rabbit Run
Eastern Cottontail
Three versions of Cottontail inhabit Kentucky; the most common being the Eastern Cottontail.
A larger version is the Swamp Rabbit.
Another version, indescernible from the Eastern Cottontail except by examination of the skull lines, is the Appalachian Cottontail.
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Post by BuckSkin on May 9, 2022 22:20:14 GMT
 Just about every Rabbit one sees at this time of year will have at least one, if not more, blood-filled Ticks, usually around the base of the ears. In Kentucky, the most common Tick you will see, either attached to some poor animal and blood-filled, or crawling around in your drawers or shirt-collar, is the American Dog Tick. Although they are most commonly found all over your favorite dog, their favorite place is at the tip of a horse's tail - not the tail hair, but the tip of the tail itself. Catch up any horse in Kentucky and part the hair away from the tip of it's tail and you will find dozens of embedded ticks of all sizes. There are worse Ticks in Kentucky; but, they are for the most part tiny and you will never know one has bitten you until blood tests at the hospital confirm it a few days before your demise. We have a new Tick invading Kentucky, that, if you are bitten, eating any type of hooved animal meat will make you deathly ill; I know people who have been fighting this for several years and they still get violently sick if they eat a steak. A friend got bit last year and the doctors know so little about this malady that they cannot predict whether he will ever get over it and be once again able to eat hooved meat; he may be ruint for now and all time to come. While researching and typing this, my skin has started crawling ad I am feeling creepy-crawlies all over me; I think I will stand in the shower and pour a jug of coal-oil over my head and let it run down all over me. |
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Post by hmca on May 10, 2022 0:37:02 GMT
We have a new Tick invading Kentucky, that, if you are bitten, eating any type of hooved animal meat will make you deathly ill; I know people who have been fighting this for several years and they still get violently sick if they eat a steak. That is really scary. The concern around here is the deer tick and lyme disease. |
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Post by BuckSkin on May 10, 2022 1:36:09 GMT
The concern around here is the deer tick and lyme disease.
I don't know how much confidence you can put in the statement; but, from all sources I have read, they claim our Kentucky Ticks do not carry Lyme disease.
It is really something that a big 300-pound person can get bit by a tiny little creature and end up deathly ill.
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Post by BuckSkin on Jul 28, 2022 7:42:29 GMT
Eastern Cottontail Rabbit
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I count no less than four big blood-filled Ticks around this rabbits neck.
I am tempted to set some box traps, catch them, pull off the Ticks, and put Flea-&-Tick collars on them.
Here is what Kidadl, National Geographic for Kids, and Wikipedia have to say about them.
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Post by hmca on Jul 29, 2022 0:15:01 GMT
I am tempted to set some box traps, catch them, pull off the Ticks, and put Flea-&-Tick collars on them. You surely show compassion for all the animals you photograph, BuckSkin. |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jul 29, 2022 4:01:59 GMT
Nice action shots BuckSkin.
Cottontails are so darn cute. Our version is the mountain cottontail even though the only ones I've seen are on the plains.
Too bad about the ticks. They are everywhere it seems. Our dog used to get them and 2 or 3 got on me over the years ... always in the mountains. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever used to be a concern, but now it's Lyme disease.
You eat rabbit? We used to eat them when I was a kid. My mom used to make rabbit pie and it was delicious.
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Post by BuckSkin on Jul 29, 2022 5:02:47 GMT
I used to back when I thought I was Jeremiah Johnson; I quit when I got older/wiser and discovered how many deadly diseases they carry that can be transmitted to humans through their meat.
If my little buddy suspected me of eating a bunny rabbit, I don't know if she would ever forgive me; that in itself is reason enough for me to abstain.
Thanks for the compliments.
It sort of ruins a really good photo when big old nasty ticks are so obvious.
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jul 29, 2022 15:21:48 GMT
If my little buddy suspected me of eating a bunny rabbit, I don't know if she would ever forgive me; that in itself is reason enough for me to abstain. Oh, I get that.  |
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