I've been battling rabbits for weeks now. The electric fence has been effective at keeping out deer and groundhogs, but one rabbit seems to have it figured out. He slowly hops up to it, waits and hops through. I don't know if he figured out that the click is the part that hurts, or if he's just trying to find what keeps hurting. I just know he keeps coming in.
Mostly he just eats the winter wheat which I'm growing as an experiment and a way to get more wheat seeds (pretty clever, huh?). But there are two problems: first, he sometimes branches out and takes the top off a bean or tomato plant; second, the winter wheat will be matured and cut down soon - and what will he do then?
I've been trying to poke a hole in him with the pellet gun for a long time, but he's very cagey. He hides in the wheat patch and when he's startled he runs straight out and into a bush. A lot of rabbits will freeze or run a short distance and stop; they don't live long. This one keeps his head down and keeps moving, but his day will come. Anything on the other side of the electric fence is fair game. Inside the fence is mine.
Update: the day I wrote this I finally succeeded in isolating and eliminating the one cagey and hungry rabbit that was doing the damage in the garden. Having won that battle I now return to watchful vigilance as the four legged forces of evil continue to gather in the ongoing siege of the garden...
From the Yucky bug song:
...I agree when you tell me every living thing
Should have a chance to live the way that they wish
But if I go and plant it, why then gol-dernit
If you eat it you’re gonna get squished.
Don't let the smart ones breed.
ReplyDeleteWell done Rich.