<p>I am looking for a way to keep the rabbits out of my flower garden. I am tried of the ugly chicken wire surrouning the space. Last year I even grew morning glories to hide it.(the rabbits ate it) I have been told that a product called “Liquid Fence” works well. Has anyone tried this with some success? Any other suggestions would be welcomed.</p>
<p>My parents have had a terrible time with bunnies!</p>
<p>They say that “hot pepper wax”, a hot cayenne pepper spray, is seeming to be working against the bunnies this year. Not sure what the “Liquid Fence” is, but they said if there is the cayenne pepper in it, it is worth a try.</p>
<p>They have tried almost every trick in the book in the past with none to minimal success (save the chicken wire tactic). </p>
<p>Good luck, I know bunnies and flowers are a dangerous combination!</p>
<p>Thanks, I’ve tried pepper spray, dried blood, fox urnine, dog hair, all with no luck. They are just going to be the bane of my existance for now. At least its better than stressing about college apps. :)</p>
<p>I have the opposite problem, we are all trying to keep kitty from killing the baby bunnies, they are just venturing from the burrows and they are so sweet and cute and she keeps catching them, then we cry.</p>
<p>Maybe you should send me your cat :)</p>
<p>My H would like that very much…she thinks her name is “you suck, cat” 
He likes the baby bunnies.</p>
<p>Anyone see the news tonight, and the story about the mother cat with several kittens that somehow had also adopted into her litter a bunch of little chicks? It was absolutely adorable seeing the cat picking up the kittens and the chicks alike, licking them, and generally treating them all like her babies. Aaaahhhh! It was all so very fuzzy.</p>
<p>How about some more scenic looking fencing–Home Depot, Lowe’s etc. have a few options that look like short picket fences, etc. Otherwise, I’ve used the bloodmeal stuff with some success in previous houses. The problem with all that stuff is that unless you keep up with it VERY regularly, I think the effects wear off. Our solution was to move into a house in the woods that has ALL kinds of varmits that come into the yard (and our outside chocolate lab helps patrol part of the yard). I was awakened one night at 4:00 a.m. with the dog barking madly. H was out of town, and I went out and she (the dog) was about 1 foot away from an obviously horrified opossum. I grabbed the dog’s collar, and pulled her back and tried throwing rocks at it, and it just stood there I later googled it and saw that the whole “playing dead” thing is an involuntary catatonic stupor. (The dog was just terribly disappointed that it wouldn’t play and chase her and throw toys for her to fetch). After waiting several minutes, it regained consciousness and slowly waddled away. I’d rather have rabbits.</p>
<p>Our problem is racoons. I have a couple outdoor cats that come in and out of a screened porch (has pet door). I keep a litter box out there for rainy days for them. The litter box was being soaked with really foul smelling urine. One night I stepped out there and a racoon slowly came out of box, stood up and “hissed” at me and then got up in a rocking chair and proceeded to make himself comfortable!</p>
<p>He (the racoon) and his friends will come into garage, porch and one night when I had door opened to the house, even tried to come into house (the boxer scared him off).</p>
<p>I trapped a couple of them, then called animal control. They told me that you are not allowed to release them in another area–you must shoot them. I asked if my water blaster guns would work as those were the only “firearms” in the house. (I ended up breaking the law and taking them to a remote area and releasing them).</p>
<p>One of my neighbors is a hunter and also has/had peacocks. The racoons would break into the pen and kill the peacocks. The neighbor has been spotted running through the woods in his boxer shorts with a flashlight and gun chasing the racoons. Never a dull moment.</p>
<p>I don’t have trouble with rabbits—guess it’s the outdoor cats (but they don’t work with the racoons).</p>
<p>Bitter apple spray is supposed to repel bunnies, although I’m sure it works about as well as cayenne pepper spray. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>But I can’t even keep our pet bunny from jumping on the bed, so clearly I’m not the best bunny disciplinarian.</p>
<p>Oh, Mollie! Of course we all love bunnies—just don’t want the wild ones eating our pretty flowers! btw—I didn’t know bunnies could jump that high!!! (some Monty Python scenes come to mind…aaughghgh!!!)</p>
<p>Isw, I wish I knew how to keep bunnies out! We have a similar problem. Thank-you for posting, I’ll keep checking to see if anyone has ideas. (mkm56, I was laughing about that racoon! We had one in our screened in porch too! I used to have a cat bed out there, and I looked out one day, and the “cat” looked “different”. OMG, it was a Racoon!! He looked at me and I screamed! He was in no hurry to leave either.)</p>
<p>Our kitty met our raccoon one night on the deck, they circled in a fit of hissing and spitting and kitty was very happy to squeeze into the tiny opening offered by the quicly opened door.</p>
<p>Be very careful if you have a house pet get into it with a raccoon, they have very long teeth and the wounds can go septic, we had a big dog many years ago who fought with a raccoon and had a few tiny puncture wounds which ended up abcessing later $$$$$</p>
<p>We had no better luck with Liquid Fence than with pepper spray. Bitter Apple, etc. You have to apply it too often for it to work.</p>
<p>I now have to choose my plants with rabbits in mind. My neighbor’s cats used to do a great job at keeping the population down, but now that they’re gone it’s a bunny banquet out there. If you google “rabbit-proof plants” you’ll get lots of lists and ideas. Fortunately, my favorite summer vegetable crop - tomatoes - is poisonous to rabbits. I finally asked an expert last year after finding some dead bunny babies next to the plants.</p>
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<p>I have found that blood meal works. It is a powder with dried animal blood in it.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the great suggestions. I was at the garden center yesterday searching the rabbit proof plants. I think that with a spray treatment will be the way to go this year. My new dilemma is this: We have bird feeders in our yard and attract a wide array of birds. For the last two days I have found the remains of birds by the feeder. Yesterday I saw the culprit; a hawk has been using our yard as a fly in diner. Is it ethical for us to continue to fill the feeders and attract birds or should we hold off and hope the hawk loses our address?</p>
<p>Just think of it as a hawk feeder. Besides, that hawk will take care of the baby bunny problem you’re going to have soon.</p>
<p>Ahh, the circle of life. The snakes that live in our neighborhood keep down the rats. I prefer snakes.</p>