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RE: Gardening: Rabbit Repellants - 7/23/2011 7:51:08 AM   
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Status: offline 		Lilly, didn't you say you have a dog? Rabbits usually don't like dogs and dogs love to run barking after the bunnies... (Just not my girl, she thinks they are cute puppies, the vet is still in stitches for having to treat a Doberman who was bitten by a rabbit who didn't want to be adopted, the little buggers have sharp big teeth and dog noses are very sensitive)

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RE: Gardening: Rabbit Repellants - 7/23/2011 8:21:20 AM   
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RE: Gardening: Rabbit Repellants - 7/23/2011 8:41:57 AM   
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Lilly, didn't you say you have a dog? Rabbits usually don't like dogs and dogs love to run barking after the bunnies...



I was going to mention that too, or even a cat.






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RE: Gardening: Rabbit Repellants - 7/23/2011 9:16:36 AM   
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Fencing will not do a thing


Nonsense. Get 1" by 4' chicken wire, metal posts, and dig a 6-8" trench to bury the fencing.

Get two small stools/steps to access the garden.

Keeps the rabbits out here. A dog isn't going to keep up.

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RE: Gardening: Rabbit Repellants - 7/23/2011 9:41:33 AM   
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Status: offline 		Sounds gross, but Coyote urine.    They sell it in granule form, on Amazon, or you can find it at a feed store.   Keeps cats, bunny's and any creature terrified of being eaten, from entering the area, as it smells like the predator.   I don't recommend putting it near an open window, but pouring a bit around your fence line, should keep them away.

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RE: Gardening: Rabbit Repellants - 7/23/2011 10:29:31 AM   
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Status: offline 		Used to be a huge problem at my NJ house, and a fence would have been a fortune to build. Solution: tie white nylons around stakes in the areas they enter the property or on the perimeter of the garden if there is no specific entry spot, the waving of them frightens them away. You can also tie human hair inside the toe before tying it to the stake. The human scent is a repellent. Works well for deer also. Dont get all entrepenurial and try to catch and sell them, lest you wind up with a $4 million USDA fine like the Dollarhites!

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RE: Gardening: Rabbit Repellants - 7/23/2011 10:46:58 AM   
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Status: offline 		Just as soon as I see them coming up, I put cayenne pepper on my tulips, that seems to work.

I don't know how practical that would be for plants you plan to eat. I would guess it would wash off?

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RE: Gardening: Rabbit Repellants - 7/23/2011 11:05:59 AM   
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Just as soon as I see them coming up, I put cayenne pepper on my tulips, that seems to work.

I don't know how practical that would be for plants you plan to eat. I would guess it would wash off?


That would make me WANT to eat them! (the plants, not the wabbits)

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RE: Gardening: Rabbit Repellants - 7/23/2011 11:18:56 AM   
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Status: offline 		a dog isn't effective unless he's out there 24/7, which he isn't. he's in the house a lot or out and about with me.
fencing and other non-dog solutions are more effective because they will be present 24/7.  

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RE: Gardening: Rabbit Repellants - 7/23/2011 3:09:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		The only sure way to keep them away is not grow things they eat. Ground up red peppers works for squirrels. I have a baby rabbit about that thinks my yard is a salad bowl

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RE: Gardening: Rabbit Repellants - 7/24/2011 8:47:19 AM   
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Status: offline 		I wonder if you can just put loads of it around the plants...I had a friend who had raccoon problems and that worked. but it was just for the grass, he wasn't growing anything taller.

ETA I'm talking about cayenne pepper. this is me pre-coffee.

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RE: Gardening: Rabbit Repellants - 7/24/2011 8:54:11 AM   
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RE: Gardening: Rabbit Repellants - 7/24/2011 8:55:37 AM   
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RE: Gardening: Rabbit Repellants - 7/24/2011 9:04:42 AM   
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but how do you get their little legs apart?

(sorry Holly, I couldn't resist )
you train them at a flea circus (nods)


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RE: Gardening: Rabbit Repellants - 7/24/2011 9:14:48 AM   
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Do you have an tried-n-true methods of keeping rabbits away? Any recommendations?

A predator like a fox or dog. Or you can eat them yourself. Catch and butcher them as often as you want meat on the table.

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RE: Gardening: Rabbit Repellants - 7/24/2011 9:18:57 AM   
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a dog isn't effective unless he's out there 24/7, which he isn't. he's in the house a lot or out and about with me.
fencing and other non-dog solutions are more effective because they will be present 24/7.  
Rabbits are basically timid lil bastards and large things scare them. Did you ever think of buying an elephant and letting it tramp around in the garden?

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RE: Gardening: Rabbit Repellants - 7/24/2011 9:20:56 AM   
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RE: Gardening: Rabbit Repellants - 7/24/2011 9:24:52 AM   
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Have you considered the scholarly research of Mr. McGregor et al?
The cartoon dude that was always huntin' the wascally wrabbit?

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RE: Gardening: Rabbit Repellants - 7/24/2011 9:29:06 AM   
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Have you considered the scholarly research of Mr. McGregor et al?


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RE: Gardening: Rabbit Repellants - 7/24/2011 6:54:34 PM   
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Sounds gross, but Coyote urine.    They sell it in granule form, on Amazon, or you can find it at a feed store.   Keeps cats, bunny's and any creature terrified of being eaten, from entering the area, as it smells like the predator.   I don't recommend putting it near an open window, but pouring a bit around your fence line, should keep them away.

Good luck :)



That's very effective for some small animals. I don't have a rabbit problem, but I do have a woodchuck problem and a squirrel problem. Coyote urine solved the woodchuck problem, and a .22 caliber squirrel repellent solves the squirrel problem. I've killed about 25 of the little bastards so far this summer, with no end in sight.  The woodchucks? One treatment with the coyote urine each spring, and I don't see them again until the following year. If it works half as well with bunnies, it's more than worth the ten bucks or whatever.

Another thing that works with some animals - especially deer - is to hang some old CDs from fishing line. They spin slowly in the wind and flash sunlight at odd angles. Deer hate it, and I would imagine rabbits wouldn't be overly fond of it, either. They tend to be rather nervous. And if anyone's wondering how to keep pileated woodpeckers from tearing out enormous slabs of siding, I find that throwing a couple of firecrackers out the window as soon as they start jackhammering the side of the house causes them to immediately and permanently reconsider their choice of houses.

Now, if only someone could share with me some methods of getting rid of turkeys. Goddamned idiot birds from hell... I hate the stupid bastards with a passion. It seems as though the  entire point of 50 million years of turkey evolution is just to shit on my patio. God damn them.


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