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Wild bunnies potentially trapped in our allotment :(

Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter

Mama Doe
Hi Everyone

Wow it's been sometime since I posted in this forum! We had two young rabbits in our plot that we believe were getting through from our neighbours plot, to be honest we have been enjoying watching them as some of you may remember we hand reared four baby rabbits from our plot back in 2007.

However our neighbour has been having his strawberries eaten (oops) and has now done a bit of a reckkie on his plot and has repaired a few holes including the one from his plot to our plot. Our plot now doesn't have any holes and at least one of the rabbits is still present. We have seen youngsters in his plot but at least one of ours seems to be perhaps using our compost area as a bit of a hide out. Yesterday we saw one of them laying on a bit of carpet looking very chilled in the sun but we're not sure if the other one is still about.

Anyway, I have no idea whether Mum is still about checking on them or not and how long she does this for, the fact that we had two sitting close together and that I think I may have seen an adult in next doors plot, makes me think she is, and that at present we have at least one bunny potentially stuck in our plot. We do have access to a live mammal trap that we could use if no other options, my only idea at the moment is to give the rabbits some access out by means of perhaps giving them an access route over the fencing unless anyone has any better ideas?
 
Hello!

Yes I think you are right. Need to put my trail cam up there so we an see where it is coming from and if its on its own or not.

Hope you are keeping well :) We have adopted two more bunnies since we lost Spudsey in 2020 (at the grand age of 13!), these two are half lionhead and half wildie. Their Mum was found dumped in a field and was pregnant so assume she mated with a wildie, these two are more skittish than Spudsey was! I'll try and update my profile pic later :)
 
Beatrix Potter said:
Hello!

Yes I think you are right. Need to put my trail cam up there so we an see where it is coming from and if its on its own or not.

Hope you are keeping well :) We have adopted two more bunnies since we lost Spudsey in 2020 (at the grand age of 13!), these two are half lionhead and half wildie. Their Mum was found dumped in a field and was pregnant so assume she mated with a wildie, these two are more skittish than Spudsey was! I'll try and update my profile pic later :)
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Spudsey was an amazing Bunny ❤️ I am glad that you felt able to offer a home to two more Bunnies. Yesterday I saw a FB post from a Rescue who had a Bunny who is Lionhead x Wildie.Cant remember the name of the Rescue though 🙈
 
She certainly was, one of a kind!
Yes I am glad we adopted these two, they had already been adopted by someone else and returned :( Both my friend and the rescue were hoping I'd adopt them! I best not look, my partner has already 'bonded' with the ones on our plot! :ROFLMAO:
lovely to hear from you :)
 
I think wild bunnies will know how to escape if trapped by digging or something.

To stop them from eating the strawberries you can build a wire mesh box with some wood and mesh to box in the strawberries, bury the bottom half in to the ground, this will prevent the rabbits from digging under it.
 
Lord Trellis said:
I think wild bunnies will know how to escape if trapped by digging or something.

To stop them from eating the strawberries you can build a wire mesh box with some wood and mesh to box in the strawberries, bury the bottom half in to the ground, this will prevent the rabbits from digging under it.
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Completely forgot to update this post! After clearing a lot of weeds on our allotment we managed to corner bunny, so I picked him up and relocated him outside the allotment.

The wild rabbit population is booming this year much to the annoyance of allotment holders! Someone actually asked me yesterday if we could "Eliminate" all the rabbits by trapping them all (!) and relocating them to a completely different area. Some people!!!!! :mad: I said that is not the solution, people need to make sure there plots are secure so they don't get in in the first place. I've never heard of anything so ridiculous in my life!
 
Beatrix Potter said:
Completely forgot to update this post! After clearing a lot of weeds on our allotment we managed to corner bunny, so I picked him up and relocated him outside the allotment.

The wild rabbit population is booming this year much to the annoyance of allotment holders! Someone actually asked me yesterday if we could "Eliminate" all the rabbits by trapping them all (!) and relocating them to a completely different area. Some people!!!!! :mad: I said that is not the solution, people need to make sure there plots are secure so they don't get in in the first place. I've never heard of anything so ridiculous in my life!
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How about those suggesting it relocate themselves, preferably to another planet !
 
Beatrix Potter said:
Completely forgot to update this post! After clearing a lot of weeds on our allotment we managed to corner bunny, so I picked him up and relocated him outside the allotment.

The wild rabbit population is booming this year much to the annoyance of allotment holders! Someone actually asked me yesterday if we could "Eliminate" all the rabbits by trapping them all (!) and relocating them to a completely different area. Some people!!!!! :mad: I said that is not the solution, people need to make sure there plots are secure so they don't get in in the first place. I've never heard of anything so ridiculous in my life!
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This reminds me of when a friend of mine had mice on the estate and the solution was to put poison and traps down.... not really a solution but causes more issues. I said if all the bins were kept tidy and clean and people took there rubbish out that would eliminate mouse issue, you remove the food source and they will move on as quickly as they arrived. Some people have no common sense.
 
Lord Trellis said:
This reminds me of when a friend of mine had mice on the estate and the solution was to put poison and traps down.... not really a solution but causes more issues. I said if all the bins were kept tidy and clean and people took there rubbish out that would eliminate mouse issue, you remove the food source and they will move on as quickly as they arrived. Some people have no common sense.
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The human race never fails to disappoint me 🙄

Another example here with the Urban Foxes. Apparently the best way to ‘get rid’ of them is to leave out meat with a huge portion of rat poison in it 🤬

Humans have 🤬up the natural habitat of so many species of wildlife yet humans see the wildlife as the problem 🙄
 
InspectorMorse said:
The human race never fails to disappoint me 🙄

Another example here with the Urban Foxes. Apparently the best way to ‘get rid’ of them is to leave out meat with a huge portion of rat poison in it 🤬

Humans have 🤬up the natural habitat of so many species of wildlife yet humans see the wildlife as the problem 🙄
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That's what happened to the mum fox who died, then I had to look after the cubs.. Why are we poisoning foxes?!
 
Shocking isn't it!? I am the secretary of the allotments and this is one of our committee members so I held my tongue but I was shocked that he thought this was a good idea!!!!! We have an apparent 'wildlife garden' on site yet it seems to be devoid of any wildlife!
 
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