Rabbit Removal - The Hard Way...

[Iron Woode]

...for the rabbit.

*Warning for the squeamish*

 

[dasherHampton]

Kind of brought back a memory.

I had rabbit issues in my back yard years ago. I was talking to my neighbor about it and he told me, with an almost cackling glee: "Just boil up a bunch of water and pour it down the rabbit holes. That'll kill 'em right quick."

There are many ways to live a life. Infinite shades of morality.

But I can say one thing for certain: the version of life that involves me scalding baby bunnies to death with boiling water is not the one I'm going to live.

 

[Iron Woode]

Kind of brought back a memory.

I had rabbit issues in my back yard years ago. I was talking to my neighbor about it and he told me, with an almost cackling glee: "Just boil up a bunch of water and pour it down the rabbit holes. That'll kill 'em right quick."

There are many ways to live a life. Infinite shades of morality.

But I can say one thing for certain: the version of life that involves me scalding baby bunnies to death with boiling water is not the one I'm going to live.

we have various predators here that kill rabbits. Cats, dogs, hawks and coyotes.

 

[dasherHampton]

Oh, I have no problem with nature. Don't get me wrong.

I just don't murder bunnies.

 

[Iron Woode]

Oh, I have no problem with nature. Don't get me wrong.

I just don't murder bunnies.

I know.

I forgot about snakes. There are a 3 or 4 species that will go after rabbits. Not garter snakes, though. They tend to go after the mice.

 

[deadlyapp]

I had a girlfriend who lived on a ranch and had a bad bunny infestation. We'd go out at night with a flood lamp and a pellet gun and try to bag as many as we could, then put them down at the corner of the property for the coyotes to come get at night.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Kind of brought back a memory.

I had rabbit issues in my back yard years ago. I was talking to my neighbor about it and he told me, with an almost cackling glee: "Just boil up a bunch of water and pour it down the rabbit holes. That'll kill 'em right quick."

There are many ways to live a life. Infinite shades of morality.

But I can say one thing for certain: the version of life that involves me scalding baby bunnies to death with boiling water is not the one I'm going to live.

Yeah, I saw a mouse die in a glue trap at work and from that day on I said no glue traps ever. Snap trap kills mice quickly, glue traps as I saw cause the mouse to dislocate limbs while drowning in a thin layer of glue.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Tasty bunnies. I prefer mine smoked.

 

[Ken g6]

Yeah, I saw a mouse die in a glue trap at work and from that day on I said no glue traps ever. Snap trap kills mice quickly, glue traps as I saw cause the mouse to dislocate limbs while drowning in a thin layer of glue.

I figured out how to release mice from glue traps: lemon juice. But you have to get to them before they get desperate enough to do something bad to themselves.

 

[rh71]

Yeah, I saw a mouse die in a glue trap at work and from that day on I said no glue traps ever. Snap trap kills mice quickly, glue traps as I saw cause the mouse to dislocate limbs while drowning in a thin layer of glue.

There's a YT channel out there that show methods of drowning mice in buckets after they fall in through trap-doors. Is that humane? I've also seen electrocution.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

There's a YT channel out there that show methods of drowning mice in buckets after they fall in through trap-doors. Is that humane? I've also seen electrocution.

It is better but not ideal, water traps are effective but kind of broad spectrum. Basically a large bucket of water filled halfway or so and a small rod that rotates with bait on it.

 

[rh71]

Drownage:

 

[Fanatical Meat]

At ACE, I needed a large ground hog trap and saw this bucket trap it is cheap too but I am not sure it includes the bucket.

 

[rh71]

^ similar:

 

[Iron Woode]

At ACE, I needed a large ground hog trap and saw this bucket trap it is cheap too but I am not sure it includes the bucket.

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ground hogs don't climb much.

Why not just call an exterminator? They do live captures and releases.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

ground hogs don't climb much.

Why not just call an exterminator? They do live captures and releases.

I got a larger metal spring door type trap, land beaver is too large for the trap ive previously caught ground hogs with.
I did not get the water trap, I just saw it there.

 

[lxskllr]

I wouldn't drown an animal. That's a dick move, and about equal to using a glue trap. A big dose of panic, then swim til you can't swim anymore, and drown.

 

[pete6032]

Kind of interesting because Rabbits are not native to Australia, so this lizard has learned a new hunting trick. Wonder how many rabbits it eats in a year.

 

[WelshBloke]

Topic title reminds me of an interesting story over the lunch break table in A&E once.