Does anybody know where baby rabbits come from?

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Mos Eisley

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Where I work there are always cell towers either on the property or nearby. Rabbits love our properties for some reason. What they don't quite get is owls love those cell towers. Circle of life.

I worked nights for over five years. One night I'm outside in the parking lot and something flew over my head, very close, that looked to be a Pterodactyl by it's shadow from the parking lot lights. Owl's can scare the Bejeezus out of you.
 

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Man, I’m remembering back about 15 years ago now at the deer lease. I see a cotton tail and I’m like, “dinner!” So, I take the shot with my trusty single six at about 20 yards. Rabbit flops over dead. Go grab it, head back to camp and skin it out. No bullet holes anywhere on it. Must’ve scared it to death. True story.

I have no doubt this is a true story. When I was around 10 or so my brother and I were spending the summer in Louisiana with my grandparents. Back then dinner was either raised by them or shot by them.

I went out with my grandpa to hunt rabbit for dinner. We had already bagged a couple (stocking up) when my grandpa levels his .410 and pulls the trigger. As his personal retriever, I ran over to pick up dinner. I looked that rabbit up and down all the way back to the house and not one wound could be found. Even after it was cleaned and prepared for dinner. I have always gotten pleasure from relaying the time my grandpa scared a rabbit to death.
 

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Rabbits will take up residence in just about any hospitable place that offers some shelter and safety from predators. The oil field my dad pumped back when I was a kid had some pumping units mounted to large frames built out of pipe. Whoever built them didn't cap the ends of the pipe so we regularly found rabbits living there. This was especially advantageous when rabbit season arrived in the fall/winter and you could run a rabbit out of the pipe with a sucker rod.
 

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