If the vegetables and fruit fail, try stale popcorn. Yes, really, it worked
with a rabbit which ignored the standard bait.

"lgb" wrote in message
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In article ,
says...
I've got a rabbit in my yard who thinks I'm running a salad bar. I'm
borrowing a Havahart trap this evening. I know a couple of sure-fire ways
to
lure a squirrel into one of those, but not a rabbit. The bait's got to be
something tastier than my lettuce & broccoli leaves. Anyone got any ideas?
I'd try a carrot, but I wonder if rabbits are tired of being stereotyped
based on Bugs Bunny cartoons.

Try an apple slice - a fresh one every day. Some folks swear by them.
I use a bb bun.

Also, pepper spray works for me, but you have to apply it before they
start chomping away, so their first taste is bad. Hard to break them if
they've already found something tastes good.

--
BNSF = Build Now, Seep Forever

Doug Kanter said:


"Pat Kiewicz" wrote in message
news
Doug Kanter said:

OK....well, I'm not sure I want to kill the bunny because I have this
thing
about cute ears. But I still need to get it into the trap. Other than
carrot
greens, got any suggestions? I just bought a 3 lb bag of organic carrots
yesterday. The last thing I need right now is to go buy another bunch of
carrots just for the greens. I can only eat so many carrot muffins, glazed
carrots, carrots in salad, carrot sticks.....

You can usually cut the top end of a carrot off and stick it in a bit of
water to get some fresh greens to grow, if it hasn't been trimmed too
closely before being stuck in a cello pack...

Interesting project, but this trapping thing is going to begin this evening.
:-)
"Future reference?"

The project may have started last night, but the rabbits will go on forever...

--
Pat in Plymouth MI ('someplace.net' is comcast)

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(attributed to Don Marti)

Doug Kanter wrote:
I've got a rabbit in my yard who thinks I'm running a salad bar. I'm
borrowing a Havahart trap this evening. I know a couple of sure-fire ways to
lure a squirrel into one of those, but not a rabbit. The bait's got to be
something tastier than my lettuce & broccoli leaves. Anyone got any ideas?
I'd try a carrot, but I wonder if rabbits are tired of being stereotyped
based on Bugs Bunny cartoons.

Put lettuce and broccoli leaves in there if that is what the rabbit is
eating. Maybe a big pile of them would look more appealing than a long
row growing in your garden.
I have lots of rabbits around here, but they don't seem to be eating
anything in either my veggie garden or my flower beds. I was watching
two of them from my kitchen window yesterday while loading my
dishwasher. They hopped right by the flowerbeds and into the woods. I
don't know what they're eating, but they appear to be well fed and
healthy.
Gayle

On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 10:39:26 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:


"Bourne Identity" wrote in message
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On Tue, 31 May 2005 23:07:16 GMT, "Doug Kanter"

opined:


OK....well, I'm not sure I want to kill the bunny because I have this
thing
about cute ears. But I still need to get it into the trap. Other than
carrot
greens, got any suggestions? I just bought a 3 lb bag of organic carrots
yesterday. The last thing I need right now is to go buy another bunch of
carrots just for the greens. I can only eat so many carrot muffins, glazed
carrots, carrots in salad, carrot sticks.....


Just last week we noticed we have a rabbit in our garden. I was
delighted, but
then feared it would reproduce and what then? So, I just leave it. This
cute
thing is not that afraid of me as I've been as close as five feet and it
just
stays there chewing it's shoots. It seems to like the shoots of my St.
Augustine, which is fine by me.

The other night, last night as a matter of fact, my husband was outside
smoking
a cigarette (poor guy) and he heard some rumpling in one of our brush
piles. So,
he got out the Maglight and he saw two foxes in the backyard! I asked him
ten
times if he was sure they weren't opossums or skunks, but no, he said they
were
definitely foxes. One larger than the other.

I am vegetarian, on my way to becoming vegan and I hope people would
reconsider
killing things in nature. It truly is such a non-virtue and creates such
horrible conditions for the killing person.

Victoria

I can't seem to find an answer to my question in your essay, V. Are you
suggesting that the bunny might like a couple of cigarettes? :-)

I think they were hoping the fox would eat the bunnies in exchange for
a couple of cigarettes. They keep their hands clean of any killing
and the veggie eating bunny is gone.

Swyck

wrote in message
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I can't seem to find an answer to my question in your essay, V. Are you
suggesting that the bunny might like a couple of cigarettes? :-)

I think they were hoping the fox would eat the bunnies in exchange for
a couple of cigarettes. They keep their hands clean of any killing
and the veggie eating bunny is gone.

Swyck

This is beginning to sound like something Tony Soprano would arrange. I like
it.