If I use traps, I have to transport the trapped rabbits several miles, by
car presumable, thus the cost of gasoline

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Walter
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"Jim Yanik" wrote in message
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"Walter R." wrote in
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I am plagued by hordes of rabbits. They eat everything in sight,
especially tender shoots and newly planted stuff. When they get
desperate they will even eat my Red Apple iceplant.

Within the city limits I cannot use a firearm. Would an air rifle be
powerful enough to kill them?

you can buy 9mm air rifles that definitely kill them.
your ordinary BB gun will not.

Wonder where they go to die. Will I end
up with Rabbit carcasses all over my garden?

carcasses will attract other animals.

Trapping them sounds like a lot of trouble, especially with the high
cost of gasoline.

what's gasoline got to do with rabbit traps???


Any other drastic remedies?

And no, I do not want to cook them.

somebody else might. They taste good fried or in a stew.

During the depression my wife and
I collected road-kill rabbits and cooked them for supper. During the
war (WW II Germany) we bred them by the hundreds in our backyard and
turned them into sausage. Fortunately we no longer have a need for
such desperate measures.


it's not "desperation",it's practicality and not being wasteful.
Think of it as "recycling".

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Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
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