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This year’s problems started with “Watership Down”. It’s difficult to tell from the photo, but those weeds are over 6′ tall.
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That’s more than 12 Murphys!
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The season began with these voracious little tyrants. I was kind and didn’t kill them, and how did they repay me? At least one dug its way back into the garden and moved into the bean patch.
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Can you find the bunny hidden in these beans?
Neither could I.
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I was taught that pests don’t like marigolds, but rabbits love them. This marigold had so many pretty flowers on it before the rabbit moved in.
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The poor, devoured plant had the misfortune to grow slightly closer to the beans than it’s cousins and therefore lost its robes of glory.
Totally disgusted with the damage the Bean Rabbit was doing, I decided to try a humane trap. Instead of a rabbit, I caught an opossum.
Not my image. Borrowed from internet.
It turned out the rabbit was too small for the trap and was able to squeeze in and out between the bars. So, for several days I just fed the rabbit. The opossum was safely released to its home in the morning after also having a good meal of fruit.
After days of fruitless (ha ha) wabbit hunting, I startled an adult doe on the hillside. “No way!”, I thought. “I will NOT have you burrowing into this hill and leaving ticks and poop everywhere!” First I cut down all the foliage on the hill, then I sprayed with stinky spray and spread Irish Spring soap chips. I planted yet another pinwheel on the hill. Surely I had won this time.
Nope. The next morning I found my pinwheel knocked over, and this at its base.
(I stood the pinwheel back up.)
Inside that opening you could see little bunny ears and eyes. Aagh!
Despite my failures, I knew I had one weapon left in my arsenal…..
You say there’s a what right behind me?
Aagh! Despite being 3/4 Yorkie, this dog, as they say, won’t hunt! He was completely oblivious to the nest behind him.
(Don’t worry, I wouldn’t have let him hurt the baby bunnies. I just wanted to see if he would notice their scent.)
I don’t care for Hasenpfeffer, but I do like a nice marinara.
The Adventures of Bitey Dog 
ITOTALLY UNDERSTAND. I HAVE 2 ACRES OF WILDERNESS. LAST WEEKEND MY BIGGEST NIGHTMARE HAPPENED I TIPPED THE RIDE ON MOWER OVER ON A SLOPE. I CAN VOUCH THAT THE THE DEAD MANS SWITCH ON THE SEAT WORKS !!! I GOT THROWN OFF THE FLYING BIT WAS EASY THE LANDING WAS A BIT BUMPY !!
I HAVE NEVER COS I AM CAREFUL HAD THAT PROBLEM IN 12 YEARS MOWING HERE !
I ALSO KNOW THE STROKE GREMLINS ARE BITING DEEPER I SUSPECT MY INTERNAL GYRO IS NOT WORKING RIGHT !!!
BUT ALL SHALL BE WELL !
HUGSSSSSSSSSSS
Ugh! I’m glad you survived the fall. Are both you and the mower OK? I have balance issues as well, so you have my sympathy. Remember to dress in bubble wrap next time you go out to do yard work! 😆
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MOWER TIPPED RIGHT ONTO ITS SIDE AND BROKE A A CABLE BUT NEW CABLE CAME YESTERDAY JAY WILL TRY A MEND MORRO ! M : HAVING BEEN A FALLER ALL MY LIFE I HAVE LEARNT NANO SECOND THINGS TO DO . I MANAGED TO TWIST ENOUGH TO LAND FLAT ON MY POOR FUSED SPINE /BACK !! I M STILL PRETTY ACHY BUT THAT IS NORMAL !!!
I WAS HOWEVER PROUD OF MY “SIMONE BILES ” TWIST AND FLIP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OHH AND THE POSSUM PIC !!! IF YA EWANT ANYMORE I HAVE LOTS OF THE POSSUMS AND RACCOONS ) WHO COME AT NIGHT TO SHARE THE CATS SUPPERS !!
Maybe “Tractor Falls” will be a new Olympic event! 😂
Instead of raccoons, we have groundhogs. They leave ankle-breaking holes all over. What’s with all of this murderous wildlife?
AND WE HAVE GOPHERS AND ALL TREE DOGS ARE MINERS !! I AM FAMILIER WITH CRATERS !
I’m surprised you haven’t had an accident before this! 😂
Aw. 😦 But, also, aw! 🙂 HA! 😀
Yes, those wascally wabbits know how to take over a garden…and how to hide! Even when we are vewy, vewy qwiet, they are still weally, weally hard to out outmaneuver! 😉
I’m with your boys who are lovers, not hunters. 🙂
Coop tried to chase rabbits when he was young (and lizards, and butterflies, and etc.! 😀 ), but now that he’s old and can’t see, he just does his thing and all the critters are safe from his hunting. 😉 😀
Yummy tomatoes! 🙂
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Geordie was a very enthusiastic hunter, but he really wasn’t very good at catching things. Toby would hunt when Geordie was around, but on his own he wasn’t interested. Murphy….poor Murphy doesn’t seem to have a clue what hunting is. The critters around here are safe at any rate. 😂
Coop, I can believe that you are a lover and not a hunter! ❤️.
Yes, other than a fly one time, Coop never actually caught anything. But as a puppy he loved to chase. Ha! 🙂 He is definitely a lover. 🙂
those wascally wabbits! The possum looks like it’s just waiting for you to give more! Good luck!
Every animal I tried to trap ended up being very well fed by the end of the experience. I’ll probably have double the pests next year when word gets out about how generous I am. 🙄
I’m sorry, but I laughed so hard at this.
At least someone benefited from my suffering! 😂
Murphys IS a standard unit of measurement.
Hee hee! He is now! 😂
Personally I thought that Hazel was nothing but trouble
If I could put that thing back where it came from or so help me, I think I would be happy.
What? No chipmunks? I’ll send some your way! 🐿️
Anony-mouse and The Terrier
Last year, lots of chipmunks. This year…maybe the rabbits ate all of them? 🤷♀️
the Bear, aka my husband, will shoot the squirrels and chipmunks but he has a soft spot for the bunnies. Maverick keeps them well awy fro the house and the flowers so it’s all good!
I love around people who don’t want me to hurt the wildlife. I’m willing to live and let live to a point, but it makes no sense to let them eat all my food.
You’re lucky to have a good balance!
My nearest neighbor is like 600 feet away – I live way in the country. My neighbors don’t care. 😁
You needed the little dog we had in England….I used to rent him out to local gardeners and farmers for pest destruction…you should have seen him running along the rafters of a barn after rats!
I’m all for encouraging wildlife….but there are distinct limits and rabbits don’t recognise them.
My husband kept rabbits as a boy…the neighbour let them all out and the blasted things colonised a whole two mile stretch of railway embankment, happily eating the veg from the gardens bordering.
Ach! That neighbor! It would be different if a rabbit would eat, for instance, a single zucchini. Instead, the blasted things destroy the plants and take a bit out of every fruit and vegetable.
Yes, I would have loved to rent your little dog!
If I wasn’t old and not able to move fast anymore, I’d show Murphy how to chase rabbits! – Nox
He could use the lessons!