{"id":6279,"date":"2014-06-05T07:24:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T23:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=6279"},"modified":"2014-06-05T19:33:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T11:33:03","slug":"brutal-start-beautiful-sunrise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/05\/brutal-start-beautiful-sunrise\/","title":{"rendered":"Brutal start, Beautiful Sunrise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140605-003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6291\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140605-003-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"20140605 003\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140605-003-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140605-003.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The day did not start out as beautifully as the\u00a0sunrise suggests. \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/category\/not-so-wildlife\/dog\/?s=shorty\">Shorty<\/a>\u00a0started barking at a fox about an hour before sunrise, and thirty\u00a0minutes before the alarm went off. \u00a0I had no chance of ignoring this as she sleeps on the bed, and she has a big bark. \u00a0I wasn&#8217;t going to let her out to chase foxes in the dark, so managed to settle her down again. \u00a0 The next sound to shatter the early morning peace was\u00a0the terrible scream of a rabbit dying in the jaws of a fox. \u00a0I had mixed emotions about this, I generally love <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/21\/i-love-bunnies-but\/\">bunnies<\/a>, but we were getting over-run with them and I decided that if the fox eats the rabbits, he won&#8217;t be so hungry for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/category\/not-so-wildlife\/guinea-fowl\/\">guinea fowl<\/a>. \u00a0It was still too dark to feed the horses, so I snuggled back down into bed\u00a0to try and sleep,\u00a0but then my mind was<a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140605-010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6292\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140605-010-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"20140605 010\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140605-010-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140605-010.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> off and racing thinking about how to eradicate foxes. \u00a0The environment minister in Australia has just called for research into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/national-affairs\/greg-hunt-calls-for-eradication-of-feral-cats-that-kill-75m-animals-a-night\/story-fn59niix-1226939644027\" target=\"_blank\">virus to eradicate feral cats<\/a> and I wondered why they hadn&#8217;t tried to do this already for foxes. \u00a0 There are various baiting programs and fox hunting campaigns, but foxes are still an issue. \u00a0The government has released the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2014-03-25\/rabbit-numbers-increasing\/5344326\" target=\"_blank\">Calicivirus to kill rabbits<\/a> and people keep rabbits (and cats) as pets so they have to be vaccinated, but no-one keeps foxes as pets so I am not sure why research into\u00a0a fox virus\u00a0hasn&#8217;t been progressed. \u00a0Unless of course, they want to keep the foxes to stay on top of the rabbits which are becoming immune to the calicivirus or <span style=\"color: #222222;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rabbit_haemorrhagic_disease\" target=\"_blank\">Rabbit haemorrhagic disease<\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0After these rude awakenings, I didn&#8217;t want to get up, and the house was cold with the temperature down to 15 Deg C inside and 7 Deg C outside. \u00a0I was glad I grabbed the camera as the sky made up for the bad start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day did not start out as beautifully as the\u00a0sunrise suggests. \u00a0 Shorty\u00a0started barking at a fox about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"Bad start, Beautiful 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