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- From: fuwa fuwa usagi <fuwafuwausagi@muchomail.com>
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- Subject: [NAFEX] Re: nafex digest, Vol 1 #134 - 3 msgs
- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 11:41:33 -0700 (PDT)
Tom wrote:
In a raised bed 4'x4'x16" I also have an apple tree in that backyard.
Guess where a #$@#$! rabbit decided to dig a shallow burrow and have a
litter of 6 bunnies? Right in the raised bed, beside the apple tree!
It is a good thing they breed like rabbits, cause their brains don't
work too well.
My reply:
My "experience" is and has been that rabbits are territorial and actually
"nurture" their young. In other words you can train them and they seem to
pass it on to their off-spring. I use to have a rabbit that dined in my
garden, so I planted my yard (i.e. let some clovers grow, some dandelions,
etc) and directed her over there(by vigilantly chasing her whenever she
attempted to enter the garden area). Now 7 years later the off spring seem
to know where they should hang out, what part of the yard I let them in etc
(except the one across the street still eats my blueberries and I have not
been able to educate it yet (I keep missing with my wrist rocket).
Tom wrote:
I didn't mind removing them, but my boys are not happy with me at all.
They were much too young to survive on their own (eyes still closed),
and I had to repair the damage the burrow had caused.
It would have been a lot harder to explain to the boys if the dog found
them first.
My reply:
Yep, my son won't let me touch the rabbits either....that is why I had to
develop the gentler approach. Cripes I went to purchase a rabbit the other
day for dinner and the wife and son freaked out. Jeez...it is low fat
delicious meat...I guess chicken again tonight...
Tom wrote:
Darn rabbits! (no offense intended Fluffy one)
My rpely:
Non taken :)
So far I think I am the only one that Ed (Fackler) has not shot on sight.
But then again, Ed knows I love him.
All the best,
TFB
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[NAFEX] Re: nafex digest, Vol 1 #134 - 3 msgs,
fuwa fuwa usagi, 08/28/2002
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