"ChairMan" wrote in message
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EVP MAN spewed forth:
Planted eight cauliflower plants a week ago for a fall crop. The
rabbits have sampled the leaves on every plant and have one down to
nothing but a bare stem. Sad part is: I just can't fence off every
bed in my yard. I plan to sow turnip seeds in this same bed in a
couple of weeks. I'm just wondering if the pesky rabbits will
destroy them also? Does anyone have a list of veggies that rabbits
won't bother? I had plans to use this same bed next season for
zucchini and straight neck squash.

Rich from PA

Get a cat, rabbit problem solvedg

I guess they're all different; mine only ever brought me baby bunnies, and
he always kept them alive. He also didn't seem to mind my taking his toy
away too much.

Vegetables can be effective weapons against rabbits. Had a family friend
whose garden was always getting eaten up by them, one day out in the garden
he picked up a turnip and knocked one stone dead. I didn't know whether to
laugh or cry.

On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:29:51 -0500, "Nelly"
wrote:


"ChairMan" wrote in message
. com...
In ,
EVP MAN spewed forth:
Planted eight cauliflower plants a week ago for a fall crop. The
rabbits have sampled the leaves on every plant and have one down to
nothing but a bare stem. Sad part is: I just can't fence off every
bed in my yard. I plan to sow turnip seeds in this same bed in a
couple of weeks. I'm just wondering if the pesky rabbits will
destroy them also? Does anyone have a list of veggies that rabbits
won't bother? I had plans to use this same bed next season for
zucchini and straight neck squash.

Rich from PA

Get a cat, rabbit problem solvedg

I guess they're all different; mine only ever brought me baby bunnies, and
he always kept them alive. He also didn't seem to mind my taking his toy
away too much.

Vegetables can be effective weapons against rabbits. Had a family friend
whose garden was always getting eaten up by them, one day out in the garden
he picked up a turnip and knocked one stone dead. I didn't know whether to
laugh or cry.

Where do peeps come up with such claptrap... no way is a human or a
cat gonna sneak up on a rabbit... they're one of the few critters that
rarely even becomes roadkill. A rabbit can cover ten times the
distance and at twice the rate of speed as a cat.

I see rabbits dashing about here nearly every day, those suckers can
hear you coming from a long way off and be gone like a flash... just
this morning:
http://i32.tinypic.com/6fqlis.jpg

http://i30.tinypic.com/zspjkg.jpg

"brooklyn1" wrote in message
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On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:29:51 -0500, "Nelly"
wrote:


"ChairMan" wrote in message
.com...
In ,
EVP MAN spewed forth:
Planted eight cauliflower plants a week ago for a fall crop. The
rabbits have sampled the leaves on every plant and have one down to
nothing but a bare stem. Sad part is: I just can't fence off every
bed in my yard. I plan to sow turnip seeds in this same bed in a
couple of weeks. I'm just wondering if the pesky rabbits will
destroy them also? Does anyone have a list of veggies that rabbits
won't bother? I had plans to use this same bed next season for
zucchini and straight neck squash.

Rich from PA

Get a cat, rabbit problem solvedg

I guess they're all different; mine only ever brought me baby bunnies, and
he always kept them alive. He also didn't seem to mind my taking his toy
away too much.

Vegetables can be effective weapons against rabbits. Had a family friend
whose garden was always getting eaten up by them, one day out in the
garden
he picked up a turnip and knocked one stone dead. I didn't know whether to
laugh or cry.

Where do peeps come up with such claptrap... no way is a human or a
cat gonna sneak up on a rabbit... they're one of the few critters that
rarely even becomes roadkill. A rabbit can cover ten times the
distance and at twice the rate of speed as a cat.

I see rabbits dashing about here nearly every day, those suckers can
hear you coming from a long way off and be gone like a flash... just
this morning:
http://i32.tinypic.com/6fqlis.jpg

http://i30.tinypic.com/zspjkg.jpg

Your rabbits seem especially skittish. I can easily get within a turnip's
throw of one on any day. We're overrun with them here, you see. They live
under a shed 25' away from the back door, under the HVAC unit, they even
made a nest in the planter by the front door last year, I went ahead &
planted my Coleus in it and have walked right past the nursing mother a
couple times. They come up on our patio often and a few times have even
stood upright and looked right through the screen door at us. Whenever I mow
I'm afraid of running them over because they don't run until I'm almost
right on top of them.

How they behave might depend on whether they think you can see them or not.
But I agree, without some special circumstances I don't think a cat could
catch a rabbit running. They are not immune from projectiles though,
especially in the hands of someone experienced with moving targets :-)

In ,
brooklyn1 spewed forth:
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:29:51 -0500, "Nelly"
wrote:


"ChairMan" wrote in message
om...
In ,
EVP MAN spewed forth:
Planted eight cauliflower plants a week ago for a fall crop. The
rabbits have sampled the leaves on every plant and have one down to
nothing but a bare stem. Sad part is: I just can't fence off
every bed in my yard. I plan to sow turnip seeds in this same bed
in a couple of weeks. I'm just wondering if the pesky rabbits will
destroy them also? Does anyone have a list of veggies that rabbits
won't bother? I had plans to use this same bed next season for
zucchini and straight neck squash.

Rich from PA

Get a cat, rabbit problem solvedg

I guess they're all different; mine only ever brought me baby
bunnies, and he always kept them alive. He also didn't seem to mind
my taking his toy away too much.

Vegetables can be effective weapons against rabbits. Had a family
friend whose garden was always getting eaten up by them, one day out
in the garden he picked up a turnip and knocked one stone dead. I
didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Where do peeps come up with such claptrap... no way is a human or a
cat gonna sneak up on a rabbit... they're one of the few critters that
rarely even becomes roadkill. A rabbit can cover ten times the
distance and at twice the rate of speed as a cat.

I see rabbits dashing about here nearly every day, those suckers can
hear you coming from a long way off and be gone like a flash... just
this morning:
http://i32.tinypic.com/6fqlis.jpg

http://i30.tinypic.com/zspjkg.jpg

You believe what you want. I know for a fact that my orange tabby has
brought 3 adults and countless kids home just this summer.
4 just in one day

brooklyn1 wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:29:51 -0500, "Nelly"
wrote:


"ChairMan" wrote in message
om...
In ,
EVP MAN spewed forth:
Planted eight cauliflower plants a week ago for a fall crop. The
rabbits have sampled the leaves on every plant and have one down to
nothing but a bare stem. Sad part is: I just can't fence off
every bed in my yard. I plan to sow turnip seeds in this same bed
in a couple of weeks. I'm just wondering if the pesky rabbits will
destroy them also? Does anyone have a list of veggies that rabbits
won't bother? I had plans to use this same bed next season for
zucchini and straight neck squash.

Rich from PA

Get a cat, rabbit problem solvedg

I guess they're all different; mine only ever brought me baby
bunnies, and he always kept them alive. He also didn't seem to mind
my taking his toy away too much.

Vegetables can be effective weapons against rabbits. Had a family
friend whose garden was always getting eaten up by them, one day out
in the garden he picked up a turnip and knocked one stone dead. I
didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Where do peeps come up with such claptrap... no way is a human or a
cat gonna sneak up on a rabbit... they're one of the few critters that
rarely even becomes roadkill. A rabbit can cover ten times the
distance and at twice the rate of speed as a cat.


Your experience is not universal. To accuse somebody of being a liar
because they describe something outside your view is rather arrogant. The
world is not necessarily like your back yard, although you are far from
alone in acting as if it was.

Not all rabbits run under all circumstances and then not always in a useful
way. Sometimes they freeze trying to avoid detection. I have walked up to
one and got about 4 paces away before it gave up on trying to pretend it was
a clump of grass and bolted. Since the dog was right next to me this proved
to be a lose-lose situation. I have ridden towards one in the ride-on mower
and it only ran when I got about 6m (20ft) away. I have run over rabbits in
the car as often as wallabies which are the other common road kill here.


I see rabbits dashing about here nearly every day, those suckers can
hear you coming from a long way off and be gone like a flash... just
this morning:
http://i32.tinypic.com/6fqlis.jpg

http://i30.tinypic.com/zspjkg.jpg

Put them in another environment (not a bare lawn with no cover) and they
might behave differently. And you pulling faces at them out the window
probably contributes to their nervousness.

David

brooklyn1 wrote:
Nelly wrote:
....
Vegetables can be effective weapons against rabbits. Had a family
friend whose garden was always getting eaten up by them, one day out
in the garden he picked up a turnip and knocked one stone dead. I
didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Where do peeps come up with such claptrap... no way is a human or a
cat gonna sneak up on a rabbit...

this spring, we caught four by
putting a bucket over them. we
didn't even sneak up on them.


they're one of the few critters that
rarely even becomes roadkill. A rabbit can cover ten times the
distance and at twice the rate of speed as a cat.

they are not the brightest of creatures.
they often freeze in place making them
quite easy targets. i plinked three of
them in a row (to chase them off) and
each of them sat there unconcerned as
i pumped the air rifle and bonked them
as i stood right out in the open about
20ft away. *pump x 3* *pft!* *bonk*
*runaway*. laughed good at that
one.

if i were seriously intent on doing them
in i could have been eating rabbit all season
and most of the shots would have been
within 10-20yards.


I see rabbits dashing about here nearly every day, those suckers can
hear you coming from a long way off and be gone like a flash... just
this morning:
http://i32.tinypic.com/6fqlis.jpg

http://i30.tinypic.com/zspjkg.jpg

not all rabbits are the same.


songbird

Nelly wrote:
....
They come up on our
patio often and a few times have even stood upright and looked right
through the screen door at us.

i've seen them stand up and look at their
reflection in my car, but so far they have
not tried to hump it so i guess it's ok.


Whenever I mow I'm afraid of running
them over because they don't run until I'm almost right on top of
them.

How they behave might depend on whether they think you can see them
or not.

certainly. they freeze even when they are right
out in the open and they can clearly see me and
i can see them.


But I agree, without some special circumstances I don't think
a cat could catch a rabbit running. They are not immune from
projectiles though, especially in the hands of someone experienced
with moving targets :-)

cats get them here from time to time, and the hawks,
too, but we don't have enough around to keep
them away.

i would be so happy if we had a good control
for deer, rabbits, raccoons and oppossum...
coyotes and fox don't do enough. i keep wanting
the wolves back.


songbird

ChairMan wrote:
....
You believe what you want. I know for a fact that my orange tabby has
brought 3 adults and countless kids home just this summer.
4 just in one day

yep, i remember going to get in the backseat
of a friends car and on the floor was the bottom
half of a bunny that the cat had dragged in. it
was well known for many other creature hunts
too. later in life it was funny to see it sitting on
the floor of the living room with nine birds
flitting around the room and bouncing on the
floor and it would just sit there and look at
them. never went after them...

"look what the cat dragged in" is not an
empty expression.


songbird