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Rabbit Dogs
Larry Smith
00:00 / 01:30
Interviewer(s):
Mia Shang, Walt Wolfram
Date of Interview:
June 27, 2019
Transcript:
"When, when I was, when I guess when I was a teenager maybe twelve to fifteen when I would come home from school in the winter time, you know, we had a few rabbit dogs and I would take and go out and hunt wild rabbits in the afternoon when it was in season but other than that's--that was the biggest thing but yeah Chatham, Chatham used to be the rabbit capital of the world back, but that's way back before my time that was way back there and [interviewer: what did they do with the rabbits?] They boxed them up and shipped them up North for sale so and [interviewer: Did they eat them?] Oh yeah yeah that's that's what they would send them up North for was for, was for food so um [interviewer: And then they used the furs too?] I'm not sure if they used the fur or not but, you know, rabbit fur is kind of tender so you have to be really careful with it but I know they would way back there you know you hear stories not so much in Pittsboro but over near Siler City they they really shipped the rabbits North so."
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