How do you get rid of these pests?

[DieselnHooters]

maybe cats could do some policing work. Settlers introduced rabbits in Australia but then some escaped their pens and bred like , well like rabbits and were devastating the sparse vegetation down there. Then the feral cats population began to grow cause of the large amount of prey(rabbits), well now they have a cat problem /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif, so many of them preying on their unique fauna cause the cats wont limit themselves to the rabbits. Of course those are real mean feral-cats, not sure if a kitty rescued from the animal shelter could do the job.

 

[GRUMPA]

WOW I didn't expect to get so many good and funny responses (had to read aloud so the wife could laugh with me on some). We have the turbo charged jack rabbits there, the kind when startled can leap across an 18' wide dirt road and clear it in one jump. Coyotes are abound there and I've seen them first hand looking at them but have yet to see them chase one (guess they learned fast).


Coyotes there just wait till a cow breaks a leg and then they move in, its open range up there and cows are not in short supply. Other than them trying to bait out my dogs on occasion I havent really had a problem with them but they have made for some great targets.

Rabbits up there seem to have no known predator other than man, I've shot plenty and eaten many and jack just arent my favorite things to gnaw on. Oh I've tried the burying the fence part with no success have yet to try the bone meal part partly because of cost. Lets face it 1/4 acre of fence with a bone meal border I'm sure isnt cheap. Just seems when I shoot a bunch someone somewhere knows about it and like ships some more in cause in a week more move in.

 

[Poppa]

You know, this is probably ridiculous but it just occurred to me. Seems everytime I have seen a jack he was doing 45 MPH headed for the next county. Since theyare so skittish I was wondering if some kind of scarecrow contraption might work. Maybe make it look like a big coyote swiveling on a pole.

Like I said, probably ridiculous but hey sounds like you have tried darn near everything else.

Mike

 

[Bird]

Mike, it doesn't work every time, but very often you can just whistle one shrill whistle and a jack rabbit will stop, sit up and look around; makes an easy target.

 

[daedong]

rabbit plague in 1930s
rabbits devastated this country. but in the late nineties the calici virus was "accidentally" released from a research station and has since devastated the rabbit population

 

[txdon]

Grumpa, I have 600 feet of 8' high deer fencing with 2 feet of chicken wire on the bottom and I no longer have a problem with the deer or rabbits. However the raccoons took every one of my ears of corn. ARGGGGGGG!!
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[SPIKER]

poor bobcat was cought in a snare trap. I don't mind shooting any critter but letting them suffer I do mind, death is part of life but crulety isn't needed.

for those rabbits, they make liquid stuff susposed to keep them out, also plastic deer netting sold to protect nursery stock, will help, cover the garden or use around it. they can't climb it as it is too flexable and they will get stuck in there. then you can finish them off with a .22 and cook them up.

next thing is get about 50 of those AOL disks and tie them up shinny and reflective, but that don't help at night. you can also use a blow up night owl and or cyote figures. work well to help scare them off.

I got a deer probl and wrapped a white string around the garden, they KNOW what electric fence is and haven't been in there since! lol I put those party poppers at each corner incase they PULLED the string, but not a 1 has gone off. I was thinking of using 22 shell pull out the lead, leave the powder and put a cotter pin in a hole through a pipe, then tie fish line to the cotter pin which pulls out and dropps a small anvile bar onto the 22 round detonating it. (only powder but will BANG and scare the begerbers out of em! l,ol)

Mark M

 

[JazzDad]

"...just whistle one shrill whistle and a jack rabbit will stop, sit up and look around; makes an easy target."

Bird, I hope you aren't telling us you picked up on this information from a buddy in your Army unit; Sgt. York?
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[CTyler]

Place a little cat food in the middle somewhere. Then get a cat. Mine kills them all the time, doesn't eat much cat food anymore.

 

[Bird]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I hope you aren't telling us you picked up on this information from a buddy in your Army unit )</font>

Nope, learned it from my Dad when I was just a little kid. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif