{"id":65071,"date":"2024-10-09T14:10:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T14:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=65071"},"modified":"2024-10-09T14:10:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T14:10:46","slug":"murdering-hares-and-rabbits-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/10\/murdering-hares-and-rabbits-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Murdering Hares and Rabbits in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbits have their families Several times a year<br \/>\nFrom four to seven babies<br \/>\nNaked blind and helpless<br \/>\nThe mother it is clear<br \/>\nEmpowered with love and kindness<br \/>\nThe pressure is on her<br \/>\nShe has to prepare a place for them<br \/>\nWhen it does occur<\/p>\n<p>Godly and creative<br \/>\nThe pressure is on we know<br \/>\nLooking after the mother and her ofspring<br \/>\nThere\u2019s a glow of light<br \/>\nDown in the burrow<br \/>\nAnd father has to be<br \/>\nLooking after his family<br \/>\nHunters outside be<br \/>\nAfter him be sure of that<br \/>\nThey want some rabbit pie<br \/>\nDo they care of broken families<br \/>\nHeartless soulless why<br \/>\nThey really do not have a clue<br \/>\nGorgers of dead flesh <\/p>\n<p>Hares though do not burrow<br \/>\nFastidious though they be<br \/>\nThey love to wash and dress their fur<br \/>\nAbove ground,  naturally<br \/>\nHares don\u2019t dig like miners<br \/>\nThey prefer the open sky<br \/>\nThey love the rolling down land<br \/>\nWith great long legs which is why<\/p>\n<p>They can run like the clappers<br \/>\nWith their smaller family<br \/>\nThey face the wrath of hunters<br \/>\nTheir lives perilously<br \/>\nHighly strung but bold as well<br \/>\nAnd as silly as can be<br \/>\nI love the hares they are magical<br \/>\nWonderful and free<\/p>\n<p>Their eyes are placed so that they<br \/>\nCan look back when they run<br \/>\nBold as brass and on the ball<br \/>\nThey just enjoy the sun<br \/>\nHunters with dogs are out there<br \/>\nBut must leave the Hare<br \/>\nAlone<br \/>\nthe wildest creature hereabouts<br \/>\nCertainly those I have known<br \/>\nThey can be temperamental in the early Spring<br \/>\nHence known as completely mad<br \/>\nIn March<br \/>\nIt\u2019s when they fling<br \/>\nFear and utter madness<br \/>\nUp into the air<br \/>\nHappy yes as sand boys<br \/>\nTotally aware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbits have their families Several times a year From four to seven babies Naked blind and helpless The mother it is clear Empowered with love and kindness The pressure is on her She has to prepare a place for them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/10\/murdering-hares-and-rabbits-in-the-uk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[749,272,143,695],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-country-tale","category-hares-and-red-grouse","category-rabbits","category-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65072,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65071\/revisions\/65072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}