I'm not aginst killing rabbits, we just don't eat that many anymore, and I had just as soon not clean them. I do carry a gun from time to time and kill a few, just not that many and not that often. I do believe it is important for a hound to be gunned over every once in a while. I will not have a gun shy hound, and I don't know of any other way to prove them than to gun over them