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.

Good suggestion Jooly , we thought about these and looked into it, but unfortunately they'll also deter our hens.

Your thread title makes me wish that you will die a slow and horrible death, simply for wishing a slow and horrible death to millions of living creatures.

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

What a totally vile thing to say. Have you seen the consequences of mixy at close hand?

Shoot them if you must but don't wish that disease on them.

Rabbits are a successful species. I admire them for that.

Well, we've had one of those sonic fox repellers, we still lost chickens! (Yes, they were, we thought, securely fastened in for the night,

As for the "humane rabbit traps", don't make me laugh. They catch one rabbit at a time, if they work at all! When I opened my curtains this morning I counted 27 rabbits just in the bit of garden I can see from my window!

Rabbits are not indigenous to the uk. They were introduced to this country for their fur, centuries ago. Like the Grey squirrel in the uk, animals like pigs and goats in the tropics, and cane toads and wild dogs in Australia, they have entered the country and taken over, causing untold damage to the environment and the ecosystem. They have a nine month breeding season, giving birth to several kits, more than once a year, and they can live for around ten years. Ever heard the term "breed like rabbits"? In a country as green as the uk, they are bound to flourish, and must be controlled. They dont just nibble the grass, they eat and dig in the surface layer, causing instability and erosion. They destroy crops, and cost people a lot of money. Yes you can fence them out, but where can they go then?

And FWIW, I Blame the human race. We mess with nature, think we can do what we like, mess with ecosystems, move species about, destroy habitats and basically, ignore any problems we have caused. We can't just ride roughshod over nature and not expect to have to deal with the consequences. Rabbits aren't meant to be here, and their numbers need to be ccontrolled. It's our fault and our responsibility. I don't like gassing or myxomatosis, but something needs to be done.

I don't wish a slow and painful death to all rabbits and I certainly don't wish mixy on the its heartbreaking to see them suffer such a horrible death.

However I do want the rabbit population to be controlled my parents allow rabbit hunters into there field every couple of weeks (they send the rabbits to Poland apparently they still eat a lot of rabbit there) they can easily catch 200+ rabbits in a weekend and that's every weekend they come up the countryside is compleatly over run.

There vermin here pure and simple and need to be controlled because they destroy everything I'm sorry if that's upsetting to some.

And as for saying that I boy who shoots rabbits will turn in to a psychotic killer. Seriously. I think you may have to have a little word with yourself.

My husband both shot and ferreted rabbits as a boy and he's the kindest person I know.

I have no problem putting slug pellets down for slugs or using mouse traps for mice there vermin and so are rabbits.

Get more foxes! That's a good way to do it

I love bunnies. If I had a veg patch it would be for the sole purpose of attracting said bunnies to my garden!

P.S. My guinea pig may tell them to back off though I imagine.

Emma I don't doubt it! I've seen a guinea pig scare off a massive Tom cat!!

you monster you

Thirty odd years ago, when I was a tot, wehad a rabbit and a guinea pig. Cute little guinea pig ripped big old bunnies throat out! Maybe we need to introduce guinea pigs into the wild to cull the bunnies!

Saggy I like that idea, but bunnies can kill guinea pigs just as easy and it wouldn't help as we'd then be over run with cavies

Maybe we could make the bunnies turn cannibalistic like hamsters??

octopus good luck. If it doesn't work, we'll see you back here in 6 months when you're trying to figure out how the little breeders managed to dig/climb/push through it

Octopus, what width of fencing did you buy?

I remember hearing that years back in a local village every autumn there would be an annual custom where the men would mow the surrounding fields in an ever decreasing circle, all the rabbits would accumulate in the remaining grass in the middle for safety, and then the local boys would be sent in to club them all to death.

Not sure why I'm telling this story. Probably to get the image of throat-ripping hamsters out of my head.

Guinea pig... Throat ripping guinea pig...

The hamster was a cannibal!

If you know of anyone who keeps ferrets, OP, then ask them for the sweepings from the ferret's hutch and spread it around your vegetables. It will deter the rabbits as they hate/fear the ferrety smell.

Damage by rabbits is terrible here and I fell two feet downwards whilst in a moving tractor as the ground caved in. It gave me The Fear at the time.

Culturemulcher If you're wondering where all the foxes went, I can tell you: they all live round my way in South London, eating KFC leftovers and scaring the local cats. If I saw one with a Burberry cap on I wouldn't be surprised