[kycottontail]

Guys..Yesterday my dogs ran this rabbit for 25 minutes...I finally seen it running down a road and hollered to my buddy. I hollered cat.This is a picture of the rabbit..This is not photo shopped or anything..Only thing I can think is someones pet that may have

released as young rabbit in summer..This rabbit was ran as good as any cottontail..He went through water, cattails, doubled back..this was on stripmine land...You just never know what you may run in to...Wade and Lt you may remember these dogs..This is Walker and Hank

 

[LtELmer]

They look happy and they are not racist lol

 

[KyBrushBuster]

That is awesome! I've seen black squirrels in the wild but never a rabbit. Was there any houses close by?

 

[jsbbeagles]

Congrats on your trophy.lol
I did the same thing about ten years ago while hunting a WMA in pa. I assumed someone turned it loose.

 

[rienmark]

Did you skin it?

 

[Grizzly creek beagles]

You killed Fluffy!!! LoL I’ve seen a few on some Core ground around me over the years that people have turned loose. Most don’t make it very long but some will adapt and can run pretty good

 

[Robert L. Dunn]

His ears look like a domestic rabbit.

 

[Foxxy]

I would of got it mounted and see if it was a true cottontail by getting it looked at by the DNR or a knowledgeable veterinarian.JMO

 

[Huntsman]

We have lots of black squirrels here, but never a black rabbit. I have seen two “piebald” wild rabbits in my many years of hunting, however. Always interesting to see an abnormality in nature.

 

[Jared Levi]

People use them to train puppies some just adapt .

 

[Jared Levi]

Good eating tho I’m sure . I had a black n white one that lived 3 years in the wild . Great runner

 

[ruger]

I saw a black rabbit along with a cottontail in a someone's yard just after daylight on my way to run dogs a few months ago.

 

[Joncagle]

Last year around this time I was trying to get my 2 young pups started. I took them down to a creek bottom with a lot of briars and honeysuckle. All of a sudden my little gyp started up and took off down the creek with a chop mouth. I went up on the hill to watch her and my male came with me, the rabbit started making its way up the hill from the other side and you could hear dog and bunny both coming through the honeysuckle. The rabbit busts out of the brush and this thing had to be 10 pounds! My male was a runt and young at that so he hardly went 10 pounds himself. It ran right over the nose of him and shot into the briars on the other side. Dog looked at the rabbit and then looked at me with his eyes big as saucers. I said “get him duke!” He took off after the rabbit but never did tongue on the track that day. It turned out the guy that lived around there had tame rabbits that he fed marshmallows so that was the origin of the behemoth bunny