Has anyone ever used Animal Repellent Spray in your garden to ward off the
rabbits? Did it work? The cat keeps most of the rabbits out of my garden,
but she can't stay awake 24 hours a day 7 days a week guarding it, LOL! We
saw at least one rabbit in the garden yesterday evening. I'm thinking about
buying some of that spray and see how it works, unless ya'll have any better
remedies....and don't say shoot the rabbits, because I would NEVER do
that....

Thanks for any help...
Angie in the Boonies of East Texas

They work, but not convenient. Apply a 10 foot band around the area
you wish to protect after every rain. An electric and/or chicken-wire
fence works well, and less expensive in the long run. I use the metal
"T" fence posts--cheap, easy to install and they seem to last a very
long time. The green chicken wire is almost invisible and 2.5' high
fence is enough for rabbits.

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 09:49:31 -0500, "junkyardcat"
wrote:

Has anyone ever used Animal Repellent Spray in your garden to ward off the
rabbits? Did it work? The cat keeps most of the rabbits out of my garden,
....

In article ,
says...
They work, but not convenient. Apply a 10 foot band around the area
you wish to protect after every rain. An electric and/or chicken-wire
fence works well, and less expensive in the long run.

I use pepper spray on flower gardens, and a couple of applications early
in the year train them to not eat the flowers. In the veggie garden
I've put 2' fences around the raised beds and they work fine.

I've had to add netting across the tops to keep the quail from declaring
it a prime dust bath area :-).

And the ultimate rabbit repellent is a pellet gun. Most learn from a
couple of light stings, but I've had to actually kill a couple of the
really persistent ones.

--
Homo sapiens is a goal, not a description

"lgb" wrote in message
...
In article ,
says...
They work, but not convenient. Apply a 10 foot band around the area
you wish to protect after every rain. An electric and/or chicken-wire
fence works well, and less expensive in the long run.

I use pepper spray on flower gardens, and a couple of applications early
in the year train them to not eat the flowers. In the veggie garden
I've put 2' fences around the raised beds and they work fine.

I've had to add netting across the tops to keep the quail from declaring
it a prime dust bath area :-).

And the ultimate rabbit repellent is a pellet gun. Most learn from a
couple of light stings, but I've had to actually kill a couple of the
really persistent ones.

I'll add that if the OP is queasy about cleaning a rabbit for cooking
purposes, but knows a hunter, it's worth the effort. Absolutely delicious.
:-)

"junkyardcat" wrote in
:

Has anyone ever used Animal Repellent Spray in your garden to ward off
the rabbits? Did it work? The cat keeps most of the rabbits out of
my garden, but she can't stay awake 24 hours a day 7 days a week
guarding it, LOL! We saw at least one rabbit in the garden yesterday
evening. I'm thinking about buying some of that spray and see how it
works, unless ya'll have any better remedies....and don't say shoot
the rabbits, because I would NEVER do that....

Thanks for any help...
Angie in the Boonies of East Texas



Mix your own repel spray by combining water, hot pepper flakes, garlic, a
couple of drops of soap and maybe I forgot something. You're supposed to
put in a jug and then let it sit in the sun for a while. Then strain and
spray on your plants. You can call it your hare removal tonic. Har har.
Kidding about the name, but seemed to work for me.

"junkyardcat" wrote in message
...
Has anyone ever used Animal Repellent Spray in your garden to ward off the
rabbits? Did it work? The cat keeps most of the rabbits out of my
garden,
but she can't stay awake 24 hours a day 7 days a week guarding it, LOL! We
saw at least one rabbit in the garden yesterday evening. I'm thinking
about
buying some of that spray and see how it works, unless ya'll have any
better
remedies....and don't say shoot the rabbits, because I would NEVER do
that....

Thanks for any help...
Angie in the Boonies of East Texas



Well you can try to repel them but you have to keep doing it. I find
something that automatically catches them and disposes of the corpses
combined with good fencing to be most effective and least effort.

David

Homemade bacon for fruit trees (young) in autumn - rub the young branches,
and possible atack spots, and they won't touch it for a whole winter- this
is used here by old folk (hilly place). I saw foot steps of rabbits in a
snow around fruit trees and if they find the one which is not covered, it's
history. At least here rabbits respect this, but for vegetable garden - we
don't have this kind of problems. Usually who has dogs, has no problems.
"junkyardcat" wrote in message
...
Has anyone ever used Animal Repellent Spray in your garden to ward off the
rabbits? Did it work? The cat keeps most of the rabbits out of my
garden,
but she can't stay awake 24 hours a day 7 days a week guarding it, LOL! We
saw at least one rabbit in the garden yesterday evening. I'm thinking
about
buying some of that spray and see how it works, unless ya'll have any
better
remedies....and don't say shoot the rabbits, because I would NEVER do
that....

Thanks for any help...
Angie in the Boonies of East Texas

In article ,
says...

I'll add that if the OP is queasy about cleaning a rabbit for cooking
purposes, but knows a hunter, it's worth the effort. Absolutely delicious


But if you don't know how to check for rabbit fever, find someone who
does.

--
Homo sapiens is a goal, not a description

"lgb" wrote in message
...
In article ,
says...

I'll add that if the OP is queasy about cleaning a rabbit for cooking
purposes, but knows a hunter, it's worth the effort. Absolutely delicious


But if you don't know how to check for rabbit fever, find someone who
does.

Does it survive thorough cooking?

In article ,
says...

"lgb" wrote in message

But if you don't know how to check for rabbit fever, find someone who
does.

Does it survive thorough cooking?

OK, I'm doing this from long ago memories, so don't hold me to it. It
appears as some sort of spotting or discoloration on the liver. I know
that rabbit hunters (again, long ago) would open the gut, look at the
liver (with gloves on) and discard any suspicious carcass. So my guess
would be that it does survive cooking, although it could be they were
just being overly cautious.

--
Homo sapiens is a goal, not a description

Fencing is the only sure solution to vermin rabbits.

Karl W.


"junkyardcat" wrote in message
...
Has anyone ever used Animal Repellent Spray in your garden to ward off the
rabbits? Did it work? The cat keeps most of the rabbits out of my garden,
but she can't stay awake 24 hours a day 7 days a week guarding it, LOL! We
saw at least one rabbit in the garden yesterday evening. I'm thinking about
buying some of that spray and see how it works, unless ya'll have any better
remedies....and don't say shoot the rabbits, because I would NEVER do
that....

Thanks for any help...
Angie in the Boonies of East Texas

Too cute to shoot? Tasty, though.

"Karl L. Wuensch" wrote in message
news:Iao_e.24167$nq.5116@lakeread05...
Fencing is the only sure solution to vermin rabbits.

Karl W.


"junkyardcat" wrote in message
...
Has anyone ever used Animal Repellent Spray in your garden to ward off the
rabbits? Did it work? The cat keeps most of the rabbits out of my
garden,
but she can't stay awake 24 hours a day 7 days a week guarding it, LOL! We
saw at least one rabbit in the garden yesterday evening. I'm thinking
about
buying some of that spray and see how it works, unless ya'll have any
better
remedies....and don't say shoot the rabbits, because I would NEVER do
that....

Thanks for any help...
Angie in the Boonies of East Texas