OT: One More Off Topic Off Season Thread

[brentashton]

This is more of a winter issue right now I am afraid. We have had a ton of snow so they are eating plants they normally would have to work too hard to get at.

My wife is yelling at three of them as I type this!

If we could figure out this interprovincial trade situation in Canada, Alberta and Sask could send some coyotes your way.

They will stop the rabbits from eating your greenery.

 

[Bryanbryoil]

There are no real options unfortunately. Normally I don't mind the little critters. But they just completely decimated an expensive ornamental plant and have eaten much of or euonymus, though the latter will most likely grow back. They are also eating our cedars.

Our rabbits are very different from the big jack rabbits we have living in our yard in Edmonton. But these little buggers have a non-stop appetite.

Rodent repellant maybe? Buying alfalfa pellets? Sorry, not sure what they'd do, I just know that if they were here their days would be numbered! Slingshot? Fart spray?

 

[Fourier]

If we could figure out this interprovincial trade situation in Canada, Alberta and Sask could send some coyotes your way.

They will stop the rabbits from eating your greenery.

I back onto a greenbelt. We actually do have coyotes. We also have foxes in our backyard fairly often. But rabbits can outbreed these guys with ease it seems.

 

[Bryanbryoil]

I back onto a greenbelt. We actually do have coyotes. We also have foxes in our backyard fairly often. But rabbits can outbreed these guys with ease it seems.

The coyotes and foxes must be eating good in your area for the rabbit population to explode like it is.

 

[Fourier]

The coyotes and foxes must be eating good in your area for the rabbit population to explode like it is.

We also have lots of hawks as well and the occasional owl. These rabbits live in my fenced yard and that of my neighbors. It seems that they don't like to leave the safety of their cushy homes. Normally we can live in peace as they munch on grass and plants that grow back quickly. It's just years like this where the snow never stops that they really do damage

I have great neighbors but did have one strange rabbit-related conversation. My neighbor noticed a hole under the fence between our two yards. She pointed it out to us stating...Your rabbits have dug a hole between the yards and they are eating our plants. Would you be able to do something about this?

 

[Bryanbryoil]

We also have lots of hawks as well and the occasional owl. These rabbits live in my fenced yard and that of my neighbors. It seems that they don't like to leave the safety of their cushy homes. Normally we can live in peace as they much on grass and plants that grow back quickly. It's just years like this where the snow never stops that they really do damage

I have great neighbors but did have one strange rabbit-related conversation. My neighbor noticed a hole under the fence between our two yards. She pointed it out to us stating...Your rabbits have dug a hole between the yards and they are eating our plants. Would you be able to do something about this?

Wait until the rabbits are on your neighbors side of the fence and then put a rock where the hole in the fence is. Then tell them that their rabbits are no longer allowed in YOUR yard!

 

[Frank the Tank]

This is more of a winter issue right now I am afraid. We have had a ton of snow so they are eating plants they normally would have to work too hard to get at.

My wife is yelling at three of them as I type this!

Yeah, we had rabbits mow down our viburnum shrubs one winter when the snow cover limited their eating options. I caged the bushes the following fall, which helped them survive the winter after an entire growing season of recovering their lost limbs.