A Tale of Five Bunnies

A while ago, I had noticed something was chewing on some of our seedlings. It was inside the fenced in area, which is always a fun surprise. The next few days I noticed more damage and tried to look for animal tracks, but didn’t find any.

One day while walking in the garden I scared up the hidden rabbit and he shot across the garden and out a small hole in the fence. I decided to come back the next day and patch up any and every hole I could find.

So the next day, tools and hand, I walked through the garden and scared the rabbit again, and again he went through the hole in the fence. Being sure he was out I could now patch the holes. As I walked towards the back fence there was suddenly movement by my feet in all directions. It was a nest of bunnies.

There were three of them, and they weren’t all that small. In fact it took me quite a few minutes to gather them all up. But I caught them and gently placed them outside the garden. Then I patched up the fence, feeling like I had gotten the best of mother nature this time.

A few days later I noticed new damage to some transplants.  It didn’t take long until I scared up what was apparently a fourth baby bunny. But now there was no way for it to escape,  I had gone over the fence meticulously, not concerned that it would keep things in as well as outhe.

I couldn’t catch the scoundrel by hand,  so I bought a couple havaheart traps. The problem was,  there wasn’t any baits that worked,  the bunny was living in paradise, what could I tempt it with that wasn’t already growing everywhere.

I had hundreds of fall seedlings to transplant into the garden but I couldn’t risk the bunny getting them.  So I took some two foot high fencing and built a simple fence inside the larger fenced in garden. Then I started transplanting.

After a couple of frustrating weeks, while transplanting some lettuce, I took the lettuce thinnings and baited the trap with them. There wasn’t much lettuce left in the garden and the next morning,  the bunny thief was in the trap. He was released unscathed into the wild, and I am no longer being held hostage by an adorable little bunny.