The dogs are breeding like rabbits.

[ichi]

The dogs are breeding like rabbits... and the rabbits are breedling like dodos. Is this happening just in my region? I never kill rabbits and their population stays in low single figures. But the dogs are breeding so fast I have to hunt them every day just to keep the population around 20.

I'm a good hunter and have reduced the bears and other dangerous animals to single figures, but I can't get on top of the dogs. Meanwhile, the rabbit numbers shrink even though I don't hunt them.

This has been going on for a while, so I thought I'd ask the question: is it possible that my hits on the dogs are actually killing rabbits?

[Cantryjczyk]

Yep, I see the same in my location (polish zone):
rabbits, no one hunt: 3
dogs, are hunted: 29
Others animals, somewhere between: 11,8,14,6,7

Some other place:
rabbits: 2
dogs: 45
others animals: 12,7,28,23,12,16

[Sunni Daez]

in an area I am... the rabbits and pigeons disappeared totally now..

[mtm21]

The dogs got a little hungry, Sunni.

[I_am]

There are dogs somewhere in Cantr?

[Doug R.]

The answer to your observation is that dogs have double the breeding rate of rabbits. Rabbits used to be out of control, and I peeled back their reproduction values. Dogs had been reduced to double-digit population, so I ramped up their breeding rate. Since all the existing populations are going to be replaced with new animals, I stopped watching the "old animal" populations a while ago, except when I need to do a periodic cull.

I'll pull their reproductive rate back some, and look at their pops when I do the next cull. When the new populations are implemented (hopefully in June), then things will be fixed.

[15454]

I remember about 70 cantr years ago when two young men, and ones 'wife' didn't even have any animals at all.