Not wanting to start a ruck, but with shooting, that's the way, they shoot them on some parts here with rifle and night vision, and believe me, they can reduce the population of fox and rabbit to pretty much zero, very rapidly, then they move on (by the way, THEY are paying to shoot the land for sport not pesting).
Midnight cowboys mate, they will kill off land faster than anything else. With a rifle at night, you'd have to be a retard not to bag up, it's the easiest "fieldsport" (yer right) there is and massively growing in popularity.
And i aint saying this because i own a dog before