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  • From: "Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Rabbit repeler spray
  • Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:55:52 -0600

Poison the rabbits.

---- Original Message ----
From: billg@inebraska.com
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Rabbit repeler spray
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:30:15 -0600

>
>> Miller Nurseries (1-800-836-9630) sells a spray called "Repels-All"
>
>> that they claim really works.
>
>
>I don't know anything about that particular spray, and I've never
>tried
>anything in the winter, but I used to try repellent sprays to keep
>rabbits out of my garden. As far as I could tell, they didn't do
>anything at all. One time, I looked outside and saw a rabbit sitting
>in
>the middle of what I'd just sprayed, less than an hour before! And
>that
>was when there was plenty for them to eat elsewhere, too.
>
>Of course, just because some sprays don't work, that doesn't mean
>they
>ALL don't. As I say, I don't know anything about that particular
>spray.
>
>PS. Note, re. the suggestion of dogs, that you can't let them run
>loose
>in town. And if you restrain them, and keep them outside day and
>night -
>like my neighbors do - well, your neighbors will hate you. :-)
>
>Besides, if you build a fence to let the dogs run loose to protect
>your
>fruit trees, you might as well fence out the rabbits while you're at
>it,
>right? And if you get rid of the dogs, you won't have to clean up
>poop,
>either. Heh, heh. Admittedly, they might be useful to deter rabbits
>and
>raccoons - anything that can climb over the fence.
>
>Bill
>Lincoln, NE (zone 5)
>
>http://garthright.blogspot.com/
>
>--
>Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things
>in
>rationality. ... When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I
>think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than
>others. - Bertrand Russell






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