What does "Ferral Rabbit" mean?

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- 07/16/2008 at 6:56 PM
  Shannon
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  I was reading an old line on the house rabbit society page. It was saying hundreds of ferral rabbits need to be relocated. Now does this mean that these are rabbits that were once pets, non wild and have been put outside to fend on their own? Or are these wild rabbits? I looked in an online dictionary and they said that both could be the possible answer. Both wild rabbits, or rabbits that were once someone’s pets and then turned out. Please let me know. I am just curious so I am know the terminology incase it ever comes up in Winnipeg. Then I can possibly rescue some rabbits!
  
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- 07/16/2008 at 8:14 PM
  JK
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  Ferral cats are wild cats so I would assume that these are wild rabbits. If it has the same meaning for rabbits then they would not have ever been pets.
- 07/16/2008 at 8:54 PM
  Beka27
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  i looked up wikipedia for feral cats : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_cat
  
  A feral cat (or stray cat, alley cat) is a cat which has been separated from domestication, whether through abandonment, loss, or running away, and becomes wild. The term also refers to descendants of such cats, but not to wild cats, whose ancestors were never domesticated.
  
  so i assume the same goes for rabbits. they ARE domestic but they “get lost” somehow and they might breed and produce other “domestic, but wild, bunnies”
- 07/16/2008 at 11:16 PM
  Kokaneeandkahlua
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  Yes…Ferral means a domesticated animal living in the wild
- 07/17/2008 at 6:50 AM
  JK
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  OK I did NOT know that! I thought they were wild from the get go.
- 07/18/2008 at 9:07 PM
  Kokaneeandkahlua
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  no, wild from the get go is just wild…I learned ferral from Australia actually as they have problems with lots of ferral animals there, ie. domesticated animals that are in the wild and reproducing-maintaining a population….
- 07/22/2008 at 2:31 PM
  MarkBun
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  My Maryann was a feral. Probably one of the reasons I have always had dominance issues with her.
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