Skin a rabbit

Was just taking Betty's (chihuahua) jumper off after our walk and did as I always do high voice come on then skin a rabbit and she puts her little arms up for it to be pulled over head.

Grace said behind me for a vegetarian that's a blood thirsty thing to say, made me think where does that saying come from and why was it so popular, it's pretty gruesome !

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I have never heard that saying Julie.

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Perhaps it's local I here people round here say not a lot but enough to think it's a thing and not just my mad family

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Common round here as well.
Incidentally if you really want a rabbit skinned I can do it in about 2 minutes!

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Oh purwell I can't imagine I'll ever need that but I guess it's a kind of talent

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It's Elmer Fudd.

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It is, or was, a condition of the Field Craft badge in the Scouts.

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Oh I wonder if that's why my husband left scouting, I can't imagine he'd like that at all. He's never said why he left its all shrouded in mystery.

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If you actually read Baden Powell's "Scouting For Boys" it is quite scary in parts, certainly would not be accepted in the modern age.

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A lot we used to do is scary today isn't it. Amazingly we survived it all really.