Howdy,
What's wrong with a shotgun and bunny stew?
Mark
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Eric Murray wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 04:57:26AM -0700, Tim wrote:
>> While we still had snow on the ground this winter, I noticed that the
>rabbits were eating on a row of 3 to 4 ft tall arbor vitae in my front yard.
>>
>> Is there a way to keep rabbits out of my yard? Next year I will most likely
>put up a chicken wire fennce of some sort, but I would like to keep the damn
>things out of my yard, period.
>
>
> A dog, or a really tough agressive cat, will keep them down but
> not completely out. Our indoor/outdoor cat was eating a fair number
> of bunnies for a while- that's her favorite food- but even in her prime
> she could only get the smaller ones.
>
> Barring that, fencing is the only way. Chicken wire 2' high and really
> well down to the ground works. We had to rabbit proof our garden with
> chicken wire along the bottom of the deer fence. Even
> the cat couldn't keep them completly out. Which isn't suprising- they do fine
> even with a large number of bobcats and coyotes around.
>
> I suppose that trapping and relocating them would work, but it
> wouldn't get all of them, and it would take up time
> that could go to fencing.
>
> Eric
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