Wabbits!

[Scout1071]

How can I keep the damn rabbits out of my yard? Yesteday I planted around 30 red verbena and woke up this morning to find the tops of about 20 of them completely gone! I have fortified my yard as much as possible but those little f***** still find their way in my yard. They also got to one of my japanese ferns. Fockers!

Last year I tried Liquid Fence but the smell is just too hideous. Not only can I not stomach the odor, but I live in an apartment complex and my neighbors complained. I don't blame them...that stuff is downright nasty.

Please help!

[Jara sang]

1. Take your cue from progmom

And shoot the fuckers. Then skin them and hang the pelts in your windows, that will be a deterrent for future rabbits.

[Scout1071]

2. I'm getting close to that point. Plus I unleash my Boxer on them

at every opportunity which keeps them out during the day and evening. But what to do overnight?

I'm at a loss and cannot afford for them to eat a few hundred dollars of flowers again this year. Last year they annihilated my hibiscus. Ate them down to nubs.

[Jara sang]

4. Dig trenches around your garden

Fill them with gasoline, wait till evening. If you see any activity or movement, light a match and throw it in the trench, that will teach them lesson, torch those fuckers.

[Scout1071]

9. I hate to say it, but I am willing to go to extremes at this point.

I'm not sure about trenches and gasoline, but all options are on the table.

[progmom]

23. wtf are you talking about???

I love rabbits. I have had them as pets.

[Jara sang]

24. Oh, I thought that small creature were merely a nuisance to you.

Just Yoking!;):evilgrin:

[progmom]

27. not rabbits

just flies and spiders

[DebJ]

3. many years ago, one enormous rabbit used to drive me nuts.

He would nap in my vegetable garden on the cool earth for a good part of the early evening. For weeks, he would touch nothing. I watched my string beans get ready for picking, and determined I would pick them the next day after work. Of course, when I got home the next day, the rabbit had razed them down to a line of just one stalk each...no leaves, no beans, no nothing but dying stalks.
My husband and a neighbor finally shot him one night. I'd say he weighed about 15 lbs (based on a similar sized cat).

[Scout1071]

5. Yep...we've got some fat ol' rabbits around here. But what to do?

I'm at a loss right now.

[BikeWriter]

20. That had to be a swamp rabbit. They're larger than the Cottontail.

[BlondieK143]

6. Don't kill it!!

My grandfather has a huge yard and he has about 3 of them that are continually in it. He just planted a few things and they haven't touched it. Want to know why?? He feeds them white bread. It's the weirdest thing I have ever seen in my entire life! They come up to the driveway and look for it. Most rabbits would run away at this point, not these. He talks to them and tells them to come closer and they actually do. You could literally reach out and touch them, then they go to town on the bread. I know, it sounds weird as hell.

ANYWAY, the point of that was to say that they're only cute little things looking for food. Give them another option of food and see if that works. :shrug: What could it hurt?

[Scout1071]

7. It will encourage them to keep coming back......

I don't want to sound cruel, but I want them out! There are hundreds of them in my complex. The landscape guys ran across 3 little bunnies on the other side of my fence just this week.

Yea, they are cute. But they have got to go.

[BlondieK143]

8. Okay, good point.

:shrug: Good luck with that!

[Scout1071]

10. Surely someone out there has a solution?

[havocmom]

11. Do yo have a dog or male friend who might piss on your yard boundaries

for you? No vegetarians, please. Need some piss from a carnivore. Works in some cases to keep bunnies and bambies out of the yard. Might be possible to get whiz in a can from someplace, but fresher, more natural is always my first choice.

Throw a barbecue, serve up lots of brew and that might do the trick ;)

[Scout1071]

12. This guy pisses all over my yard and desperately wants to catch

one of those furry bastards:



Even that doesn't work!

[NV Whino]

13. The trick for rabbits is rabbit fence

Yes, there is special fencing made to keep rabbits out. However--you were waiting for the "however," right--you must bury the bottom part of it about a foot down in the ground.

The fence looks like deer fencing except that the bottom part (about two feet of it) of it has smaller holes. Once fence is installed, use traps to get any rabbits remaining in yard and remove them... or eat them.

[Scout1071]

14. Thanks. Unfortunately, I can't do that kind of digging because

I live in an apartment complex. Great idea and I might follow thru on some traps.

However, I will not be eating them! My grandparents made me do that once.....ONCE!

[NV Whino]

17. You might try fencing your individual plants

I live in a rural area and I fenced two small areas where I have roses. Nothing drastic, just chicken wire. Keeps the deer out and the rabbits haven't bothered because there is so much else to eat.

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. Borrow my dog

Her mission in life is to rid the world of rabbits, squirrels and birds.

[MidwestMomma]

16. My sister swears by bone meal

You buy in the lawn and garden department and sprinkle it in your flower bed. My sister says it keeps the rabbits/squirrels from digging up and eating her sunflowers. Before she started using it, they would always eat her plants.

So give that a try. It doesn't cost much. And it's doesn't smell or anything.

[NV Whino]

18. NO Bone meal!

It will poison the dog!

[MidwestMomma]

21. I didn't know that

My sister doesn't have a dog. :(

[NV Whino]

28. Yes, and of course, being bone, dogs lap it up.

I believe what it does is chew up their innards rather than poison per se. But in any case, it can be fatal.

[Scout1071]

22. Shit. Looks like I'm not going to the nursery.

I was literally looking for my keys when I checked this page one last time.

Thanks for the info.

[Scout1071]

19. Ding, ding, ding!

I'm going to head to the nursery right now.

Thanks!

[question everything]

25. Plant marigolds on the outside

they are supposed to deter them and, last year, we did buy some product, I don't think that it was liquid fence one had blood and tobacco, another smelled like moth balls - and the combination of all helped.. I think that it also help that they like the seeds for the squirrels..

I wish they ate all the weeds, though..

[BikeWriter]

26. I found one that claims to work.

Rabbit Repellent
This is harmless for rabbits. It only repels them.

1/2 cup talcum powder
1/4 cup cayenne pepper

Mix the ingredients. Spread the mixture wherever you do not want the rabbits to feed.


http://www.recipegoldmine.com/house/house203.html