What Are These?

[Paddy_SP]

We feed our dog on (cooked) rabbit - I recently discovered these strange growths inside one of them:

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i207/Paddy_SP/P7221503a.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i207/Paddy_SP/P7221503b.jpg

Can anyone tell me what they are? They don't look like tapeworm cysts to me, but I can't think what else they could be?

 

[Apache]

They are abscesses. I imagine if cut open they contained a cheesy/gritty contents? Rabbit puss is very thick compared to a lot of other creatures.

 

[csl]

According to this tapeworm cysts can look like that although I've only ever seen clear ones:

http://www.fao.org/docrep/0

Cysticercus pisiformis

 

[Paddy_SP]

They are abscesses. I imagine if cut open they contained a cheesy/gritty contents? Rabbit puss is very thick compared to a lot of other creatures.

No, the contents weren't cheesy or gritty, but more like a kind of putrid slime.

 

[Apache]

I'm still leaning towards abscesses!

 

[Paddy_SP]

I'm still leaning towards abscesses!

In that case I will consider them to be abscesses! What could possibly cause a bunny to have so many of them?

 

[EMcC]

What did they taste like ?

 

[jamross65]

What did they taste like ?

More to the point that picture almost has enough detail for it to cause a smell from memory!!! Never tire of gutting fish or gralloching deer. Could do that when eating a sandwich...

But the thought of ever having to gut a rabbit again gives me the dry boke

 

[Paddy_SP]

What did they taste like ?

I don't know - I'll ask the dog and get back to you...

 

[dully1963]

Defo garden peas

 

[dirtdigger]

More to the point that picture almost has enough detail for it to cause a smell from memory!!! Never tire of gutting fish or gralloching deer. Could do that when eating a sandwich...

But the thought of ever having to gut a rabbit again gives me the dry boke

the smell of rabbit guts turns my guts too and they taste the same as that to me

 

[chr1s]

The smell alone is bad enough but when gutting quite a few the number of rabbits that have a worm or 10 still moving inside it is also a real turn off to the meat! yuk!

Never come across growth's like that though!