Rabbits!
 

Help me get them out of my garden. The usual methods haven't worked!

Are you missing them? If so, try a shotgun.

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Go to a pet store and buy a rabbit. Cut its head off and put it on a pike in the middle of the garden Vlad the Impaler style. Dump its blood out on the ground throughout the garden. That should send a sufficient enough message to the wild rabbits to stay away.

People just do not want to share

This is as bad as I have seen in recent years. They have been absolutely chowing back on my flower garden like it's a buffet.

Share some good fried rabbit with neighbors and friends

Kind of surrounded by houses, so weaponry is out. I've tried rabbit mace and it did the best..helping for about a week, but I ran out. Got some other spray at Lowes that stinks like a mother ****er, but it only lasts a day or two before it is back in there chowing down on leaves of sweet corn, cucumber, okra, asparagus, radishes...pretty much everything I've planted but tomato and beet leaves.

I don't really want to do netting so I can get to the raised beds as needed. Thought about a hot wire fence I can just turn off, but that is just something else to mess with...thought about getting a slingshot and start zipping some marbles at them.

Beagle!

earth box best crop of jalapenos I've had. used one with their elevated stand

They have chewed through basically every plant I have every year, especially new plants. They even destroyed some rose bushes down to the base. Nothing worked. I even first put plastic fencing around it first because it was like half the price of metal and they even chewed right through that. So I just gave up and put green chicken wire around the garden they destroy in the backyard.

RE: OP

People have told me to go to a barber, get some hair and spread it out around the border.

You can also get some capsasin spray (pepper spray) but you have to do that fairly regularly.

You know, my buddy has one. It’s fat, incredibly slow, and has a collar that makes noise. On paper she shouldn’t be able to kill anything. They moved to a different house and she blew up something stupid like 10 rabbits and some birds in the first month. Now they don’t have any varmints.

It blew my mind. Hell, my fat ass can outrun her an she jingles. But she’s a rabbit killing machine.

JFC...Antifreeze...

Not to thread crap but

Elmer fudd won't even be having a gun anymore on the actual reboot.

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Yea, they are relentless hunting machines. I miss my two, Max and Betty, RIP. Taking them out for runs in the woods or fields was always a blast.

If you want to get rid of critters eating your garden, a beagle will do the job.

Maybe he should introduce dingos into his yard. Are they better than beagles at rabbit hunting?

They'll eat babies

If it is hot, the dogs want to put their bellies on bare ground. Sometimes plants get smashed

Get a pet coyote

a 22lr is all you need. Maybe a 6pack to kill the time while you wait for one to hop up, but if they are thick, then you should have no problem.

My sister lives about 25 miles southwest of St. Louis. She's been having trouble with deer eating her trees. They killed two of her peach trees yesterday. She's PISSED and out for murdering Bambi.

Yeah, a .22 would work just fine, but I'm not sure what the laws are about those in city limits, and in a subdivision with 3 houses looking down on my backyard. I got a pellet gun a couple years ago for the same problem, but at that time it was a squirrel that was eating my tomatoes. I couldn't aim the damn thing for crap...or it couldn't aim for crap...or both. It is a handgun with CO2 cartridges, and I could see the bb shot go, but there was no way to get consistency in where it went. Part of why I stopped shooting it though was even that was loud enough that I could hear the shot echoing through the neighborhood and with neighbors that will call 911 for out of season fireworks I really didn't want to get raided for someone saying I was shooting a handgun in town.

Gamo Silent Cat.
Shoot from inside your house, through an open window or door and even if anyone hears it they won't be able to tell where it came from.

they've got some pretty sweet airsoft's out there. My old daisy hand pump bb gun would kill a rabbit if you hit it right. And it was not an expensive or powerful bb gun either.

I know back in the day, my uncle had a neighbor (in KC proper) that had a rooster that was a huge pain in the ass. He had a low power BB gun that he wanted to plunk it with when it was sounding off. Not sure what went wrong but the story goes that when he hit it, it fell over dead. He was pretty worried his neighbor was going to raise hell, but nothing ever came of it. BB guns can do some damage :)

DON'T

Do you have a Holy Hand Grenade?


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African war elephants!

I know the hair thing works for deer, so it might work for rabbits

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Yeah. The $30 pump daisy BB guns at Walmart will dead a rabbit, especially if you use pellets, but you do have to be pretty right. Firearms are definitely better.

They are running crazy down here on the lake as well. One of the long time locals told me a few years ago that they run in cycles. The fox will start showing up soon and then the rabbits will be gone, etc. etc. Rinse and repeat.

I have that problem here as well. Guy from Missouri Conservation told me to hang fishing line from the limbs and when the deer has it hit his nose it will run. Not sure if it has worked for me but I know human pee does help some.

They are just brutal on my loblolly pine.

Just caught another one on one of the beds eating off the brussle sprouts. Chucked a rock at it and the thing jumped about 3 feet in the air, but he got the last laugh because the rock sawed off one of the tomato plants that apparently took seed from something that survived my compost pile.

I may have to get one of those daisy air rifles...it is a young rabbit, but it just keeps coming back.

I had a beautiful front yard. We live close to a golf course and a few years back coyotes infiltrated the GC and the rabbits fled to the neighborhoods. I tried everything; motion detectors with a high pitched squeal, motion detector lights, motion detectors that sprayed water, repellent, other stuff and as a last resort I even chased them around with a remote control car from my front window. Nothing worked. They got used to every gadget and the repellent was too expensive to use as a permanent deterrent. My front yard is now desert landscaping.

My back yard was different; that I could enclose and I shot the occasional intruder with my capable pellet gun.

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A cat is definitely the best option around here. We have two but they are indoor cats. However, last year there was a cat that roamed around our house and it made a big difference in the rabbits bravery. Some plants actually grew that normally don’t make it. But I think the people that cat belonged to moved away.

If the coyotes are making their way into the neighborhood then it's a bad idea.

Coyotes, cars, and time are the only things that can kill a cat. Maybe a great big giant Eagle.

Dave that cat looks evil as ****. It might eat your head first.

Its a tough choice. Neighbors dogs, traffic, owls and hawks appear to have scattered or decimated the three adult and two juvenile rabbits living in my backyard, save one very crafty juvenile rabbit that has wiped out all of my beets, an entire 1' eggplant, mutilated several okra plants. I have a 20' high green plastic fence that kept em out for a while but I just caught the little mother****er taking a nap after eating right beside the eggplant that he ate down to the ground. Granted I have fence line problems - including 2 double fences, major creeping charlie, poorly planted shrubs, an abandoned compost pile and rotating piles of brush. All of which are going to go, fence lines will be restored and rogue trees trimmed. Still, I have the pellet\bb gun ready to go by the back door and if I get a clean shot inside of 15' I'll probably take it. A man's got to eat, you better believe that shit.
Just kidding, I wouldn't shoot any animal with a bb gun unless it was palmetto bugs or roaches, or really big flies.

First, you'll need either an anaconda or a python. 10+ feet long. Training the snake is the easy part.....

But if I catch that little sonofabitch I will drop kick his ass a couple blocks over.

I'd probably shoot a rat with my walmart pellet bb, about the only mammal I would shoot, again it would have to be within 15' of the sight, no scope should ever be used on a bb gun. That's just wrong and you'll never sight it in. Just too many variables with such a light ammunition. Higher end pellet guns, paintball guns are a different story.

When my dog was alive it was a different story, There would be a few rabbits, but eventually there were none, usually after I cut down and turned everything but the tomatoes. I never had 5 to start off with and multiple rabbits laying on their side in the open. That said there are a lot of owls, dogs, cats and other predators in bks, as soon as there was a surplus of unwary meat, shit got decimated in a night.

PCP Airguns will do the trick quiet well. Hell, you could hunt white tail with some of these rifles. The price isn't for the faint of heart.

https://www.airgundepot.com/pre-char...ir-rifles.html