[wildone]

As I see it farmers and land owners have wanted it both ways. 'Don't come on my land and shoot or net my rabbits, I want my gamekeepers to control and sell them. At the same time lets get rid of large birds of prey in case they might take sheep or game birds off my land'. That attitude led to the over population of rabbits in Britain at least. Then the farmers needed to stop rabbits eating crops but still wanted to use rabbits as a cash crop themselves. By the time they allowed people with ferrets or guns to kill the rabbits it was too late and they were overrun with the pesky little devils.