Aww. The only downside to living in a city is the only wildlife I ever see are birds. I can’t wait till my friends start having kids so I have an excuse to go to petting zoos.
After a search I found this little website; someone is a fan of such collective names and has listed a bunch.
A rabbit living in a carrot patch? Isn’t that rather trite and predictable? I mean, if he doesn’t mind being a hopping cliche, I suppose it’s none of my business, but still.
I’ve twice rehabbed baby rabbits. Once, out of eight, four survived, the second litter of three all died (but they had been attacked by a fox and had injuries).
Rabbits are REALLY difficult to rehab.
I’m assuming from location it’s a desert cottontail or similar? Cottontails do not dig burrows, neither do jackrabbits. They either take over an existing nest, or find a hollow or something to nestle down in.
I would make it dinner, but maybe it needs to get bigger. Just keep an eye on your crops!
Personally, I always find a tar baby to be very effective.
Whatever you do, DON’T point a shotgun into the rabbit hole trying to get him. He’ll tie your barrels into a knot which will blow up in your face when you try to shoot him! :eek:
Or he’ll extend the barrel all the way down into the hole and come up behind you so that when you pull the trigger, you’ll shoot yourself in the butt!
You must live in an awfully poor excuse of a city. I live in a large city, and I see rabbits, squirrels, and deer on a regular basis.
I also, less routinely, see foxes and raccoons, and very rarely see bears and coyotes. I also smell skunks on a semi-regular basis.
http://www.palatine.il.us/departments/police/animal_control/wildlife.aspx
http://joomla.wildlife.org/documents/positionstatements/16-Urban%20Wildlife.pdf
Glasgow, Scotland. I’ve only ever seen wild bunnies a couple of times, both times in the same spot. I’ve seen a fox at a friend’s place in London, but not here.
Not complaining about never having run into a bear, though.
I live right outside Chicago’s west side, like I could easily hit a golfball into the city limits, and we have rabbits everywhere. If I didnt think I’d get pinched we’d have rabbit for dinner on a regular basis. I came down to the kitchen one morning and saw my little ones with their noses pressed to the back windows. I asked what they were doing and they said “watching the deer” :dubious:
Sure enough, right in the back yard were 2 deer.
I call them hasenpfefer, and wear gloves and avoid blood contamination when dressing them [tularemia].
I asked my neighbor, who’s a vet, what do you call a group of rabbits but he just keeps saying, “Heard of rabbits!” over and over again. I’m beginning to think he has an aneurysm. Maybe I should have asked a veterinarian instead of a former gunnery sergeant???
Ummm… Everyone who works for Hugh Hefner?
I know what to do! Replace one of your carrots with a fake metal carrot. After the rabbit eats it, you get hold of a giant electric magnet, and then you turn it on fulll blast. You should easily then be able to trap the rabbit as the metal inside the bunny will be drawn straight to your magnet. You can’t possibly fail this way!
Surely there needs to be some Wagnerian opera involved, here…
Leave him be…if he is not hurting anything.I feed our wild rabbits…they have a bowl on the front deck that has a roof on it to keep the snow off. My hubby just work up this morning and said he thought deer were running all over the back deck last nite, but it was rabbits, playing, chasing each other. I love them!!! 
Wow, Ca3799, that is a great harvest you have there! Looks like you guys are doing a great job with those beds, the veggies pictured in your link are impressive!
As for the bunny, I’d leave him be.
Knowing me, I’d build another raised bed just for them in the hopes a heard of bunnies would make it home come spring. I’m weird like that.
If you want to try and keep the bunnies out in the future, my dad uses lightweight wire fencing around his garden which works well enough. It is wired to pipes and garden stakes hammered into the ground every couple/few feet. One end is left free and overlapping the other side. He clips this closed with a couple snap hooks, top and bottom, creating a gate of sorts. Keeps the bunnies out well enough.
You can see foxes in Glasgow if you’re lucky, especially if you live near one of the big parks. I’ve got a bunch of them living right outside my flat in Hamilton. But yeah, compared to North American cities, we don’t have all that much in the way of city wildlife. Perhaps squirrels - again, most likely in the parks.
Well, the rabbit was still there this morning, looking healthy and happy. I got close enought to touch it ( but did not actually touch it) so it seems quite unscared for a wild rabbit. I’m probsbly going to evict it by disturbing it this afternoon.
I have 4 kinds of carrots and it is living in my multi- colored, heirloom patch, which is my favorite.
Thanks, Big Blue. We have been extraordinarily lucky gardening this year. My UU church gave us the 5 empty plots to use as a donation garden at no charge. We pay a small fee for our private bed. This morning, we got permission to use the donation beds for spring so now we are happily scheming for spring. We think potatoes, onions, tomatoes, corn, and something in the 5th bed would be useful at the food bank.
Are you sure it isn’t a statute of a rabbit?