What? Jackrabbits in GEORGIA?!!!

tom turner · Jun 10, 2011

Last night I was visiting my son at his trailer outside of Dublin, GA when I spied a couple of JACKRABBITS in a nearby field.

Naturally I checked 'em out but really . . . I didn't know we had jackrabbits in Georgia at all.

Can anyone share any light on what I saw?

Thanks,

Tom

Maximumbob54 · Jun 10, 2011

Maybe some were released and popped out more??? I thought they were only out West though. It wouldn't be a shocker to find they are moving around though.

NKJ nut · Jun 10, 2011

After armored rats (armadillos) showed up in Tn. I am not surprised at anything.

charlie sherrill · Jun 10, 2011

We've basically got two types of rabbits in Miss. The smaller rabbit is called a hillbilly or cottontail and the larger rabbit (I think it's actually a hare) is referred to as a swamp rabbit or cane cutter. The smaller rabbits prefer the high ground and the bigger rabbits prefer the lower wet areas. The cane cutter resembles the jack rabbit, but I haven't seen any jack rabbits around here. You'de think they'de at least stop off here on their way east. You never know. I can remember when we didn't have coyotes or armadillos but now they're everywhere.

ancient-one · Jun 10, 2011

Might have been swamp rabbits. There are a few of them here along the Deep Fork River bottoms.

armadillo · Jun 10, 2011

As I understand it, the hare the we call a jackrabbit here in Texas has to have dry vegitation to eat. They have a problem getting enough nourishment eating green grass in a wet year, but thrive on dry grass.

It is really dry in the hill country this year. My rancher friend asked me to come out and shoot a bunch of jackrabbits because they compete with the cattle for what little there is to eat.

66TAS · Jun 10, 2011

we called them buck rabbits when I was a kid.

Old 44 Guy · Jun 10, 2011

It all due to Global Warming. Besides Bush allowed the transporting of alien hares to the east.

HAWKEYE10 · Jun 11, 2011

NKJ nut said:
After armored rats (armadillos) showed up in Tn. I am not surprised at anything.

I have not seen any armidillos around Murfreesboro but I am sure it want be long. Don

handejector · Jun 11, 2011

charlie sherrill said:
We've basically got two types of rabbits in Miss. The smaller rabbit is called a hillbilly or cottontail and the larger rabbit (I think it's actually a hare) is referred to as a swamp rabbit or cane cutter. The smaller rabbits prefer the high ground and the bigger rabbits prefer the lower wet areas. The cane cutter resembles the jack rabbit, but I haven't seen any jack rabbits around here. You'de think they'de at least stop off here on their way east. You never know. I can remember when we didn't have coyotes or armadillos but now they're everywhere.

Charlie nailed it.
I have only seen one about twice in my life. They were huge compared to cottontails- 2 or 3 times the size of one. They don't have ears as big as jackrabbits. They were in swamps, and old folks always called them cane cutters.
Quite rare to see them.

WC145 · Jun 11, 2011

Dick Rumbaugh said:
It all due to Global Warming. Besides Bush allowed the transporting of alien hares to the east.

They're just doing the jobs the local rabbits won't do.

TOM BECKWITH · Jun 11, 2011

My vote would be "cane cutter' also. Few and far between in SC. Real Texas Jacks are huge. Waiting on the B-52s to start coming in (B-36s phased out) at Carswell (Fort Worth) we spent time "policing" everywhere and chasing jack rabbits. Believe one guy actually got one saddled up, but used a snaffel rather than a standard bit. Nearly killed him after about 3 hops.

williamlayton · Jun 11, 2011

Animals travel and miagrate.
If you want some armadillos I can box up a few and UPS 'em---will take just a minute or two-----
Blessings

michael thornton · Jun 11, 2011

whats is a rabbit? we only have hungrey coyotes here

27145 · Jun 12, 2011

I saw a program on the History Channel about the dust bowl. Jack rabbit populations grew out of control so much that people would just club them to death. I saw in the program where they just swarmed.

Is this Country ready for a Great Depression and a Dust Bowl now? It is coming, but I do not think we are half the men our forefathers were. They fought for survival. I think we would just curl up and die. I am including myself, not knocking anyone in general.

Munsterf18 · Jun 12, 2011

I'm north of Dublin, but we had a big swamp rabbit living on our farm. He's a lot bigger than the jack rabbits we had in Texas, but the ears weren't as tall.

Munster

Cooter Brown · Jun 12, 2011

I think you guys are onto something with the cane cutter. I see them fairly regularly when I'm woodcock hunting down here. They are big.

I've also seen jack rabbits out west and the ears are noticeably taller.

Tom, have you ever seen a jack rabbit out west? If the ears on the critter you saw did not seem to be out of proportion to the rest of the animal, it was probably a cane cutter. Once you see a jack rabbit, there's no mistaking it.

sheriffoconee · Jun 12, 2011

My old partner and I would go fishing down on Clarks Hill and we would see a rabbit he called a "cane cutter" as well...never saw many, just a few, but larger than cottontails, but no where near a jackrabbit....so "cane cutter" it is....

gamedic · Jun 12, 2011

I saw an armadillo in Batesville georgia today. I heard they were in a neighboring county now, but Batesville is up in the mountains. Whats next alligators in the Chatahoochee?

Cooter Brown · Jun 12, 2011

A good friend of mine--a retired US Forest Service biologist, no less--saw an armadillo near Tallulah Falls!

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