Today I Got High and Murdered a Bunny Rabbit

[Oregon]

Coyotes killed my dog when i was 13 and I took my dads rifle and tracked the three of them down in the middle of the night in rural oregon and shot all 3 of them. I dont feel bad about it but nowadays I wouldnt hurt a fly.

[wenahaone]

I remember i chucked a golf ball at a jack rabbit back in the day and felt awful about it right after I hit it.

[Darkhosis]

Yeah man let the little bunny live his miserable little life. All he wanted to do was probably get some food and these days most rabbits are just pets let loose.

What changed me was deer hunting many years ago. I'd always loved animals and had pets. Just had got my drivers license that day on my way out hunting with my Dad. We drove to the hunting lease and I liked to walk around smoke a fattie chill in the blind with a little mouse that lived there, lol.

So anyway I hear this rustling and out walks a 200lb 8 point buck. I was like holy shit and I mulled it over to shoot or not. Well I pulled the trigger and it was like time had stopped. Total silence and my mouse buddy was scared shitless! Didn't see the deer and thought I missed and walked that way towards he last stood. It was a perfect shot he was just so huge it wasn't an instant kill. Man my heart sank and I felt bad but my Dad was so happy I tried to play it off.

Then a year or so later I went hunting there again. I was sitting in the blind and all of a sudden 2 deer like twins ran by and I thought it was a doe. They were fairly big 140lbs and I shot one of them. Instantly I felt like man wtf have I done. Walked over to the corpse and the other deer was still there sniffing his friend! It was so damn sad and I had to shoo the other deer away. Obviously they were siblings and probably had spent their entire life together. Then I saw what I thought was a doe was actually a year old spike buck.

Well that was it and the last time I ever went hunting. Still feel bad about that shit. Now I try to save animals and nobody better abuse an animal around me or I'll friggen lose it!

[Oregon]

Originally Posted by Darkhosis

Yeah man let the little bunny live his miserable little life. All he wanted to do was probably get some food and these days most rabbits are just pets let loose.

What changed me was deer hunting many years ago. I'd always loved animals and had pets. Just had got my drivers license that day on my way out hunting with my Dad. We drove to the hunting lease and I liked to walk around smoke a fattie chill in the blind with a little mouse that lived there, lol.

So anyway I hear this rustling and out walks a 200lb 8 point buck. I was like holy shit and I mulled it over to shoot or not. Well I pulled the trigger and it was like time had stopped. Total silence and my mouse buddy was scared shitless! Didn't see the deer and thought I missed and walked that way towards he last stood. It was a perfect shot he was just so huge it wasn't an instant kill. Man my heart sank and I felt bad but my Dad was so happy I tried to play it off.

Then a year or so later I went hunting there again. I was sitting in the blind and all of a sudden 2 deer like twins ran by and I thought it was a doe. They were fairly big 140lbs and I shot one of them. Instantly I felt like man wtf have I done. Walked over to the corpse and the other deer was still there sniffing his friend! It was so damn sad and I had to shoo the other deer away. Obviously they were siblings and probably had spent their entire life together. Then I saw what I thought was a doe was actually a year old spike buck.

Well that was it and the last time I ever went hunting. Still feel bad about that shit. Now I try to save animals and nobody better abuse an animal around me or I'll friggen lose it!

Man I feel for you I never wanted to go hunting but I was made to by my step dad and Every time id miss on purpose but once he got one in the gut and made me slit its throat ala red dawn..pretty fucked up but it's all good i dont believe in karma

[Michaelrdnr]

Dude, that is a touching story. It just blew my mind for some reason, i'm never going to hurt an animal.

[WavERebeL]

Dude I am not even joking when I say that I still to this day have nightmares about a similar experience only mine was with an air rifle and I just crippled it and had to kill it with my ka bar. Holy shit that rabbit was screaming and trying to jump at least your's was dead! Man I still feel bad to this day even when I type this and it was long ago.

[Sketchy Newb]

Funny how killing an animal can have such a profound effect on some while others hunt them for shits and giggles. My ex-step Dad accidentally hit and kiled a rabbit while driving home from work and was depressed (not upset about it, actually crying over it) for over a month.

I've never killed anything bigger than a cockroach, and I plan on keeping it that way. Every living thing on his planet is capable of suffering and pain just like us humans are

[neal33]

About a week or so ago I was driving and ran over a rabbit. Tried to avoid the little thing but just couldnt. Felt like shit for the next day or so. Even though it wasnt a human, the thought of taking somethings life just didnt sit well with me.
Just gotta realize, shit happens. Think of how many bugs you kill while driving! We dont feel bad about that.

[whiskey dick]

Sigh..a fucking funeral?...

Ok man, props for a point blank blunt trauma kill shot. Your side impact shot most likely burst his lungs and other vital organs with the kinetic impact wave.

Ok my next issue is with the wasted rabbit. Do you have any idea how fucking tasty pan fried wild rabbit is!!??!! Field dressing a rabbit is incredibly simple. Then you can learn how to tan a hide and have a nice little pelt when your done. Google it and have fun. Urban hunting is awesome.If your going to have a bow, an instrument of hunting/survival and war also a survival form, why not learn to hunt with it and the associated skills needed to win in the end.

[bigwill2010]

That sucks man. I volunteered at an animal shelter for my 4 years in high school, so I know what you mean about not wanting to hurt an animal.
I have accidentally hit a few animals driving, and it makes me feel really shitty.
Just try to take it as a life lesson, and don't play target practice if you don't want it to die.

[smokesomebuddha]

go bear grylls on that rabbit's ass and chow down!

but i like rabbits so dont kill anymore

[whiskey dick]

Also, i'm nearly stupified at the levels of pussification contained in the replies above. Sniff sniff I shot a bunny & have nightmares...eeekkkk! My hampster died & I cried for 3 whole days waaaaaa...Give me a break already.

Food chain, survival of the fittest, man vs. nature etc etc. This has been going on for quite literally hundreds of millions of years. Hell for the better part of that it was eaten raw.

Where do you think those tasty & delicious KC Strip & T Bones come from? Bovines lazily spending their days eating fresh alfalfa in rolling green hills just livin the chill cow life, or spent in an undersized filth strewn pen, pumped full of hormones and as a reward for getting big & fat, an anal electrocution, assembly line butchered and prepackaged for your enjoyment.....

[edward]

Should have had some delicious organic rabbit meat... burying it was the real tragedy.

The fact that it suffered wasn't good either. Shooting a rabbit with a bow and arrow without meaning to almost seems to have some sort of ominous metaphorical significance.

[GrandaddyPurps]

Originally Posted by edward

Should have had some delicious organic rabbit meat... burying it was the real tragedy.

word. rabbit is one of my favorite foods. only sad part is it had to suffer.

i coulnt find a great pic... but something like this looks like it would taste delicious.

[Oregon]

Never said hurting PEOPLE is an issue lol hurting animals for no reason is fucked up BUT if it WAS already dead and you know how to clean it, you might as well not waste it.