Wild Rabbits

[naturelover]

hi

I've got wild rabbits in the garden! yesterday while sitting in my conservatory something caught my eye on the path, and it was a wild rabbit, what i cant understand is how it got into my garden as i have a six foot fence all the way round, six foot gate at the side with about three inch gap underneath no grass all patio decking and shingle.

i went to the patio doors to get a better look and he ran back down the garden and under the decking digging a hole in the shingle.I thought the rats were back but it seems to be a rabbit are rabbits not affected by a electronic rat scarer?and is this normal to have rabbits in a built up area,

i am in a block of old 1800 houses all i can think of where he came from was across the road from me there was alot of open ground, they are now building houses on,perhaps he came from there other than that i am mistyfied,anyone out there got any ideas or know about rabbits,i know they breed well and am i going to be over run by them next summer?

[kshotton45]

Originally Posted by naturelover

I've got wild rabbits in the garden! yesterday while sitting in my conservatory something caught my eye on the path, and it was a wild rabbit, what i cant understand is how it got into my garden as i have a six foot fence all the way round, six foot gate at the side with about three inch gap underneath no grass all patio decking and shingle.

i went to the patio doors to get a better look and he ran back down the garden and under the decking digging a hole in the shingle.I thought the rats were back but it seems to be a rabbit are rabbits not affected by a electronic rat scarer?and is this normal to have rabbits in a built up area,

i am in a block of old 1800 houses all i can think of where he came from was across the road from me there was alot of open ground, they are now building houses on,perhaps he came from there other than that i am mistyfied,anyone out there got any ideas or know about rabbits,i know they breed well and am i going to be over run by them next summer?

I wouldn't be worried about being overrun by rabbits if you have open ground opposite you, they prefer that. As for how they got in, you did say there was a three inch gap under the gate ...........

Keith.

[naturelover]

Originally Posted by kshotton45

I wouldn't be worried about being overrun by rabbits if you have open ground opposite you, they prefer that. As for how they got in, you did say there was a three inch gap under the gate ...........

Keith.

thankyou for answering so quick,you said i have open ground across the road from me,it was open ground but now houses are going up on there and it looks like quite a few, plus there is quite a busy road between them and me so he would have a job to get back without being killed if you know what i mean.

[dianejjone]

hi i have same problem except i also have a family of foxes, i dont know if this rabbit came across busy road from the field, or at the top of garden is a field adjoining school fields. he is the only one i have seen and has been around for about three weeks but i dont know if i should try and catch him and return him to field because of foxes but then there will be foxes on field as well. any suggestions.

[Garden Carpet]

Hi Dianejjone, leave him alone and he will go home... I have a rabbit which visits my garden in the wee small hours.. yes.. I am often wandering the house at such times.. I love to see him there chomping on the dandilion leaves. Yours wont come to any more harm in your garden than he would elswhere.

jaki

[dianejjone]

thanks jaki, im sure youre right so i'll leave him be.

[dianejjone]

hi we still amazingly have this rabbit in garden, thought it would have gone by now to try and find its own kind, and it has so far managed to escape the foxes, does anyone know if its likely to find its own way out to fields, it looks very lonely.

[Bandit]

We have wild rabbits having fun in the garden every day. As I drive in from work they usually run away however I sometimes find myself slowing down on the sloping driveway to avoid running one over! They are particularly attracted to four darker green leylandii and dig nasty holes in the dry soil underneath them. Does anyone know why they like it under the trees? Maybe seeds? They are digging lots of annoying holes in the lawn elsewhere too. Has anyone any ideas of ways to deter rabbits (please don't suggest a rabbit-proof fence as the garden is 0.75 acre)- the previous owner used to feed foxes and rabbits and a 'wild' white rabbit used to hop onto the patio for a daily carrot!!

[ram]

Seeing the posts re-rabbits in the same garden as foxes reminded me of a visit to the Highland Wildlife Park at Kingussie (Scotland) several years ago. Several rabbits had managed to find their way into the wolves enclosure where they had dug their burrows. It was an interesting spectacle to see rabbits munching away at the grass with some wolves lying very lazily only a short distance away.

[Brocakat]

Rabbits like to burrow where there are roots - becuase it's drier there, than elsewhere. And VERY dry under any Conifers. I supose the tunnels are more likely not to collapse if there is a "mesh" of roots in the soil between the burrows.