To Want Every Bunny In The County To Die A HORRIBLE Death?

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I've spent every spare minute since before Easter turning our builders' dump garden into a veg patch. Now the local bastard chav bunnies have eaten everything except the leaves off the potatoes.

I want them all to die horribly & slowly, in spite of DDs' protestations: AIBU?

PS. If anyone's local bunnies have got Mixy, please catch some, box them up & send them to Chepstow.

We rabbit proofed our garden. Wire dug in 18 inches deep, extened upwards 48 inches. Fuckers still got in and decimated the veg patch.

I'm with you, brickinit. DDs bunny, Jesus , keeps escaping and eating ALL my plants. I have made it a permanent mega-run, but still the little fucker wants to get out and eat my bamboo.

It ate an apple tree ffs.

I don't have the heart to lock it in all the time, so I've given up on the back garden and put the veg beds in the front garden.

This is my first garden too, having lived in a flat before.

YANBU
We seem to be living in the middle of Watership Down. DH shoots 3-4 most days and it makes no dint in the numbers bounding around the field outside our house.

However chicken wire can't be that expensive for a small veg patch? £30-40 for a 50 m roll, or do you have a huge garden? Yes digging it in is a faff, but it works wonders for my blood pressure that they can't get near my veg. But don't get me started on the slugs....

YANBU we've rabbit proofed our garden and every morning I open the curtains to families of bunnies happily munching all the flowers from my new plants and all the tomato plants the DC have nurtured from seed.

They must use wire cutters.

Think we're going to have to get another cat.

DS1's 13th birthday present was a .22 air-rifle and a contract to buy still-warm rabbit corpses (to prevent DS trading in non-native fauna iykwim) for £2. Problem sorted (& much of Lincs rabbit free, though we're now almost bankrupt).

lifeis a4letterword I like your style.

lifeisa4letterword I wish Lincs was rabbit free. It's not in this bit (North-ish)

lifeisa4letterword next time sell them on to the butcher. Not kidding I pay £4 for a rabbit

Are you serious that you pay your young son to shoot animals?

Way to go to breed yourself a nice psychopath. Well done.

I know zukie, back again, we always end up on the same threads defending animals dont we (its Nullius :) )

zukie killing animals can range from necessity to cruelty, but not murder (except in one purely hypothetical aspect of Hinduism).

Sorry about Bambi, but she as a domesticated & hutch-bound bunny was not a threat to god-fearing cabbages (unless she had a chavvy side you're not talking about...) so is exempt from the general desire for extermination

lifeis - your other post sounded like you were positively enjoying the idea of them being shot, and that you were happy to encourage your son to do this, with money as a bribe.

That is what people will take issue with.

I personally wouldnt let my 13 yr old near a gun of any kind, I dont give a fuck if it was bears in the garden.

Maybe just buy the cabbage, yeah? Save the bunnies agonising pain and questionable influences on your son.

Leave the bunnies alone! they would be far better than the slugs that decimated my veg garden (now a weed patch )

Where on earth are all the foxes near you? The best way of keeping nature at bay is usually other nature.

(Am really hoping you are not serious about wishing painful death on little furry animals )

Ferrets. Or hawks. Both should help the problem. I'm told that the reason for so many of the damn bunnies is because the last two winters have knocked the rat population down, and it's the rats that keep the bunnies at bay....

Not sure which is worse, TBH.

mmmm.. rabbit stew...

Bill I would much rather my DS ate a rabbit that he had killed, skinned, gutted & cooked himself than he ate a burger from MacD's. Nothing against MacD's (worked there meself for a while), but at least he knows exactly what meat involves & is happy to choose to eat it.

Do your DCs eat meat? Is that their choice or your's? Honestly?

It's a fact that rabbits have to be culled when they over populate.

I'd rather hear lifeisa4letterword's son was killing them to make money and help with the cull, rather than to kill for 'sport'.

I've never understood the mindset of anyone who kills for the 'sport' or enjoyment of it.

Worra Quite right - he's saving up for a shotgun.

YABU just rabbit proof your garden we did with ours. It's not mega expensive. I don't mind an animal being killed for food but being killed for the sake of it is just fucking cruel and total unnecessary there's ways to keep them out that doesn't result in butchering them.

I'd happily shoot the lot when I see the little bastards eating the grass in my paddock. They should all bugger off back to the Mediterranean!

Wormy, flea ridden, stupid little bastard rodents.

Pet ones are cute, very cute. Until they try to rip your guts open!

Then again Watership Down makes me cry like a hysterical banshee. Every. Bloody. Time.

I'm new to Britain and new to Mumsnet but GiH (is Gott in Himmel ) it is only a rabbit. If it is varmin, kill it; if it is not varmin, do not kill it. Just do not spend all night arguing about it.