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Rabbit Removal - The Hard Way...

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.
 
dasherHampton said:
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.
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we have various predators here that kill rabbits. Cats, dogs, hawks and coyotes.
 
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.
 
dasherHampton said:
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.
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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.
 
Fanatical Meat said:
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.
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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.
 
Fanatical Meat said:
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.
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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.
 
rh71 said:
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.
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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.
 
Iron Woode said:
ground hogs don't climb much.

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