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Posted by mahintali (U14746271) on Saturday, 18th June 2011
The tiny rabbit filmed at the G World Live event seemed very very tiny.
How did it get into the event - I can't imagine the Birmingham site being in the middle of the countryside, AND what happened to it? It didn't look old enough to look after itself. I have had a battle with the beasties over the last few years and feel like an expert on the cuties. A very high rabbit fence and a very efficient humane trap have given my plants some breathing space....
But that little baby amongst the show gardens seemed very vulnerable ....please can the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú do a follow up on where it got to and let us know?
Thank you
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I saw this and I guess it was put there by the exhibitor as a sign of rural life but I cant remember whose garden it was.
There was a disclaimer at the end " that no animals were harmed in the making of this programme" so it is ok- you can rest easy.
Geoff
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If you're sure.....thank you....
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Rabbits cute! Come off it, they're pests. The only good thing to say about them is that they're lovely cooked and eaten.
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Apparently they have a massive rabbit population at the NEC! It caused a few headaches for some of the designers!
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I did think this was a very odd bit of footage - why film something which is clearly not supposed to be there, and which is going to cause damage to the show garden? Especially as they went back to film it some more!
I can only assume it fits with GW's current tendency towards including anything perceived as cute - dogs/cats/robins - and now rabbits. It's all a bit naff, if you ask me.
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Rabbits cute! Come off it, they're pests. The only good thing to say about them is that they're lovely cooked and eaten.Â
I have to strongly disagree with this
they're no good cooked either.
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Apparently they have a massive rabbit population at the NEC!... Â
There's a garden centre just down the road from the NEC which has a grow-your-own area with loads of vegetables. The area is surrounded by rabbit-proof fencing.
I was under the impression that RHS rules forbid the inclusion of animals as part of an exhibit, so the bunny featured on GW must have been a local.
GW cameramen are always keen to include shots of bees alighting on flowers. The bees are not part of the show. Bees are just native wildlife that happens to come in. If bees, why not bunny rabbits. This is what gardening is about - relating to nature.
If rabbits are part of the local environment, then exhibitors need to bear this in mind, and design accordingly. That's what real gardeners do.
Exhibit unprotected lettuces at your peril.
Most mammalian wildlife comes out at night. You can be sure that these little cuties, along with all their mates, had a good look round the show when everyone else had gone home.
And the bunnies all went home with nice full tummies.
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If the NEC was visited by a plague of locusts, I'm sure every effort would be made by the director to portray them as cute. Living in a small rural area, I'm plagued by rabbits and voles. I acquired a slug gun last year in an effort to solve the rabbit problem, but by the time I get to the gun, the blasted things have scarpered. I've given up on that strategy, and am now trying hard to be philosophical about the situation - but still don't appreciate seeing shots of a little rabbit on the loose at the GW Show without accompanying cries of 'Exterminate'.
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Awww...they ARE cute.I speak as someone who lives in the country, with fields on 2 sides of my garden.Live and let live - grow plants they don't like and put rabbit proof fences around veg....as the ( equally cute) Meerkat says......"Simples!!" ,biggrin>
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I've since heard that there was a rabbit garden at the NEC. So I might have got the wrong end of the stick. Well if it was part of an exhibit we should have had a voiceover/interview to explain the 'joke'.
Anyway I shall stop being a humourless, anti-cute, po-faced gardener and go and smile happily at the pretty little bunny wabbit that wanders round our garden every afternoon. Oh, for a gun....
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No,no,no,no,no,no,no!!!
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